Mentra is building MentraOS, the open-source OS for smart glasses. It's like Android for smart glasses.

Smart glasses hardware is finally ready, and we're building the software ecosystem to unlock the next personal computer.

Our team (ex. MIT, Tsinghua, JITX (YCS18), University of Toronto) has been building smart glasses for over 6 years.

The hardware was never ready, but breakthroughs in micro-optoelectronics has give us lightweight, all-day wearable smart glasses and put us on the precipice of the next personal computing revolution.

But the software still sucks. The apps still suck.

We're building MentraOS to change that. It's a fully open source operating system for smart glasses that unlocks this new interface for devs and brings their apps into the hands (and on the faces) of users.

This is not another B2B SaaS. We're going to eat Apple and Google's lunch. Help us architect the OS for the next personal computer.

Mentra is building the operating system for smart glasses. Smart glasses will empower humans to be more than ever before. Use cases like subtitles for the deaf, proactive AI that during conversations, and POV streaming enhance our thinking and communication.

Mentra’s mission is to build universal interfaces between mind and machine.

We’re a team of passionate builders in San Francisco and Shenzhen building the world’s best smart glasses. We believe that the best future for computing is open, user-empowering, and cross-compatible.

We’re sitting on the most transformative technology since the iPhone and we need a Head of Growth to help us tell our story and show the world what smart glasses can do for them.

The Role

We’re hiring a Head of Growth to bring smart glasses to millions of people.

Success looks like this: Mentra is what people think of when they hear “smart glasses”. Thousands of devs in February building apps on MentraOS. Dozens of companies ordering 10,000s of units by Q2 2024. Viral launch videos online define internet culture. Big content creators use our glasses in their videos to make better content. 100,000 deaf/HoH people in 2026 using Mentra live captions.

The opportunity to show humanity that technology can once again be a force of good in the world.

What you’ll do:

• Own product growth for Mentra. 2 key KPIs:
  • WAUs on MentraOS
  • Sales of Mentra smart glasses
• Leadership:
  • Work with CEO to help align the entire team (engineering, design, content) for product growth
  • Content team includes various third parties to manage:
    • Internal hire - videographer
    • Influencers
• Website
  • Work with CEO to own the content on the site
  • Work with design team to design a new website
• PR
• Ads
• Events
  • Grow mind share in devs, B2B, deaf/HoH consumers
• Email
  • Community update
  • Email marketing
  • DRIP campaigns
• Content
  • Lead content for our own socials
• B2B
  • Help create B2B content
  • Enterprise conferences
• Affiliates:
  • Run programs with affiliates like influencers, UGC, and community ambassadors

What we’re looking for:

• Track record of success in a growth role. Have you launched a high conversion email campaign, got into the New York Times, went viral on TikTok, or helped a startup scale to 100,000 users? Let’s talk
• Ownership: ready to dive in and setup various systems across all of growth. 
• Wide skillset: Marketing, product, communication, events, content, etc.
• IRL in San Francisco.
• Proactive, high-ownership, crazy passionate about smart glasses/AR.

Apply if you want to scale the next personal computer to billions of users.

MentraOS is the operating system for smart glasses. It runs third party apps locally (as Android apps on an Android phone or tiny Android compute puck) or in the cloud.

Smart glasses need to be super lightweight and low-power. So they use MCUs with low power wireless protocols (BLE) and offload all the compute elsewhere.

The connect to a phone/compute puck (we're building a custom compute puck in Shenzhen right now). The phone/compute puck is running an always-on process that connects to the glasses, receives data from them, and pushes data to them.

The phone/compute puck is basically a relay to the cloud, where most of the magic happens. Transcriptions, LLMs, visual AI, etc. all happens in the cloud.

Third party apps can subscribe to context (audio, video, transcripts, locations, etc.) and can push proactive data (AI insights, translation, notifications, etc.). The MentraOS-SDK has an Android (edge) and web (cloud) native integration so third parties can write smart glasses apps that run anywhere.

We are a team of deeply technical nerds solving massive problems for the next generation of computing. None of this is remotely easy. Join if you want to help architect the software ecosystem of the next personal computer.