Interesting Data Gigs # 20: Data Engineer at Mutiny

Growth Engineering at Scale using A.I

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Hello Data geek.

It has been a while since my last email/post to you, and I apologize for that.

I strongly believe that I owe you to write about interesting companies and interesting business models, and in the last month, I didn’t think I had found the right opportunity to present to you.

Until this week I found Mutiny.

Grab your ☕️ and enjoy.

First things first: What is Mutiny and what problem they are solving

Let me start with two stats here:

Where I did find these numbers? 

The first one was in Muntiny’s description on its LinkedIn profile. And the second one, analyzing the market opportunity behind Mutiny’s market: $450 Billion is a huge number to think about.

The whole package is even more interesting when you read the entire description:

Today companies spend over $1T to bring customers to the door, but $19 of every $20 they spend does not convert to revenue.

Companies have no choice other than to dedicate large engineering and data science teams to manually build more relevant, higher converting experiences for different customer segments.

Mutiny is a no-code AI platform that helps marketers convert their top of funnel demand into revenue, without engineers. Mutiny gives marketers everything they need to drive revenue and prove it — from data and analytics to AI-powered recommendations and content writing.

We are backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, YCombinator and CMOs from some of today's fastest-growing tech companies including AngelList, Carta, Gong, Hopin, Salesforce and Snowflake.

In simple terms: they provide a service to customize the pages of your company using Artificial Intelligence, based on the website’s visitor information.

To give you a more concrete example, let’s discuss how Ramp is using Mutiny to increase site-wide conversations by 96%

Yash Godiwala, part of Growth Innovation at Ramp shared some insights about how they did this.

First, they divided this Conversion Rate Optimization process into three different phases:

  1. Phase 1: Optimizing paid campaign landing pages

  2. Phase 2: Personalizing all pages off of visitor industry

  3. Phase 3: Utilizing Mutiny’s WYSIWIG to launch rapid site-wide tests

Then he started explaining every single phase in detail. As you can see below, they personalized the campaign landing page using several parameters based on visitor’s information which resulted in a 52% lift. Simply incredible

Then, enter the second phase, which is personalizing the pages based on the industry of the visitor.

Yash said about it:

We moved on over to something that was just beyond paid traffic because although we wanted to keep working on paid, we tried to find other quick wins.

And so industry personalization on the organic traffic was massive. And we recognize using Clear Bit, which is one of the sponsors and partners of this event, is how can we identify the visitor and show them the experience that matters most.

And you'll see here on the box section that even something as small as the H2 for healthcare practices, because we can identify healthcare prospects as they come to our website is connecting them with a tone and a voice.

Having worked in healthcare before, I understood that you can call a healthcare business, you can call them a company, but realistically, whether they're a large hospital or there might be a small dental practice, they're all thinking of themselves as a practice.

And so by using this language and using the verbiage that works best for that given audience, that really clicks with them. 

And we saw an 86% lift on this experience alone, just by changing a couple of words around replacing company with healthcare practice and that can be really huge.

You'll notice one of my points here is not being so feature based, one thing you can't always rely on is not over indexing on the information you have.

So clearby might call a prospect of the healthcare, but there's a possibility that either might not be the case or they might not identify with that specifically. And so going into a feature based selling where I know what features these healthcare practices want to see, I can lean into that and mention those.

So even if they're not a healthcare practice, even if they don't identify to be healthcare practice, it's okay because I can mention a feature that is agnostic and works from more than just that one specific place. Lastly, the core note is indices can be bundled. You don't need to get over granular for it.

Which means, hey, if I see an automotive industry in the textiles and mining, I can lump those together. It really depends on your company.

I encourage you to watch the whole video because reading all this now, Mutiny feels like a “magical thing”.

Seriously: when you understand the endless possibilities you can do with the product, you start to realize that Mutiny is seating in the gold mine here.

And the co-founders of the company: Jaleh Rezaei (CEO) and Nikhil Mathew (CTO) worked on this problem together for years when they were part of Gusto.

So, they are the perfect couple to help build this skyrocket.

Now, I understand better why they said that they can help companies to convert 99% of visitors to customers.

Their key is one keyword: Personalization. And they are using Artificial Intelligence at scale for that.

This is truly one of the most interesting use cases of A.I I’ve ever seen this decade.

And in case you are wondering: they are well-funded as well.

According to Crunchbase’s data they have raised $71.6 Million to this date from investors like Cowboy Ventures, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Uncork Capital, Insight Partners and GTMFund.

But, let’s be honest: Why you should join Mutiny

The answer to that question was already first answered by Kevin Yien, who left Square to become the Head of Product at Mutiny.

Let’s start with Kevin’s answer first:

Timing is everything.

I ran a 100-person product team at Square and believe fintech was the best place to be in the last decade.

When I decided to leave, I evaluated 20+ industries. To my surprise, I landed in martech (marketing technology, not mars technology).

Here's why martech is about to have its "fintech moment".

But first some context on fintech.

In 2010, payments and banking were where innovation and creativity went to die. In 2020 the most boring industry became the "cool kid".

The next decade will be different for fintech. The winners are named, the upside is capped, and the space has shifted from invention to iteration. Yet the best talent is still pouring into this space.

Instead, the best talent should be looking for "the next fintech".

I came up with a simple framework to think through this. It came down to 3 things:

1. Uneven playing field

2. Neglected user experience

3. Proprietary and valuable data set

Let's break each down.

1. Uneven playing field

Square empowered a new class of business owners who were previously excluded from the industry.

2. Neglected user experience

Square replaced a $5k technical call to update your POS with a few taps on your phone.

3. Proprietary and valuable data set

Square modeled behaviors from transaction data to help customers in new ways (e.g. banking, payroll).

I spoke to 30+ startups (from crypto to healthcare) during my search. Gokul Rajaram has the gold standard for founder sense. But I was skeptical when he introduced me to Jaleh Rezaei, a martech founder he invested in.

C'mon...martech??

But Mutiny's vision perfectly mapped to my framework.

1. Uneven playing field

Mutiny is bringing the power of growth engineering currently restricted to tech giants like Uber to anyone with no-code tech.

2. Neglected user experience

Mutiny means you can launch your first growth experiment in an hour (and measure impact!) instead of begging engineering to implement a copy change on your website (and hopefully see it in a few weeks).

3. Proprietary and valuable data set

Mutiny is leveraging community data and AI to put the latest and greatest growth tactics at everyone's fingertips instead of operating in silos and throwing spaghetti at the wall.

And AI/ML are unlocking even more possibilities...

At the end of the day, frameworks can be a great way to analyze markets but you need to find your tribe.

After 4 months getting to know the Mutiny founders, I understood why they wrote their values before any code — my favorite is "work should feel like play".

I found my tribe.

This framework helped me decide to join Mutiny. It also convinced the best design leader I knew in fintech to join Mutiny — 👋 🧢 Mac Cormier

Now we're looking for impact-focused designers and PMs to build an iconic product and team together at Mutiny.

When you see something with a lot of experience, saying all this, you pay attention.

If you prefer Twitter’s version, it’s here:

Then, you must read this post from and .

Believe me: they made terrific work explaining with incredible detail why Software Engineers should join Mutiny.

Let’s talk about the position itself: Data Engineer at Mutiny

Let’s dissect the position piece by piece, or at least, let’s discuss some takeaways here:

Our greatest differentiator comes from the machine learning models we’ve built that learn across our platform and help our customers make the content changes to convert their prospects.

If they put it in the job description, this means that Machine Learning knowledge is key there.

This problem has not been solved in a decade and we are building an iconic company that will automate growth engineering for every company.

That's why Sequoia, YCombinator, and CMOs of companies such as Snowflake and Airbnb invested. Mutiny is beloved by some of the fastest-growing companies including Notion, Brex, Carta, Segment, Algolia and Qualtrics. We have quadrupled revenue year-over-year with even more on the horizon!

This is called the principle of Social Proofing: they are mentioning big names who are leaders in their respective industries to sell you that the products and services they are building are working very well and having a lot of demand.

We are looking for our first data engineer to design the data architecture that will inform strategic business decisions and improve our product for years to come.

You will bring together several sources of product and company data into a cohesive and comprehensive data warehouse.

You will partner with our finance, data science, and product teams to build ETLs, a shared data vocabulary, and meaningful data abstractions. This is a unique opportunity to be the first in a new function at a scaling startup and build a foundation to scale our data organization.

They are looking for a Data Engineer who has walked the talk here.

What we’re looking for :

We are fully remote and offer H1-B Sponsorship.

Mutiny does not accept agency-submitted candidates for this posting.

Generally speaking: when they put a cloud provider in the first position, that means that they are actually using that cloud provider first.

So, if you are a Google Cloud expert, you could have a great advantage here.

Let’s discuss one simple idea on how to approach this job application (THE REAL MEAT)

I will be honest with you on this: JUST APPLY HERE.

The opportunity to build a company from scratch with an amazing product like this is very rare.

I truly see Mutiny here with the early days of Google or Amazon.

Yes: I’m putting Mutiny in that level of company here.

The reason? There are $450 Billion reasons to think that.

My advice here? 

  • Read everything you can about the company, the prospects, and the opportunity. Everything

  • Take your own notes and test the product. Go to the demo page, and see it for yourself

  • Chat with members of the company. If you feel confident enough, send a detailed email with a Google doc to the CTO explaining how you could build the data architecture for Munity in 2023. Share it with him for free and invite him to chat with you in a short meeting of 30 minutes if he has any questions about it. BE SPECIFIC HERE.

Good luck my friend with the application

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