Sr Director of Growth Marketing

About You: 

You are data-driven, highly analytical, and a good storyteller, with a relentless focus on customer acquisition, retention, expansion, and referrals. You are a marketing expert with extensive experience in planning and executing full-funnel multichannel campaigns and tactics. You have a passion for the customer experience, conversion optimization, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

You’re excited by the challenge of rolling up your sleeves and working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for scaling a team of talented growth marketers across Acquisition, Customer Marketing, Partnerships Marketing, Content Marketing, and B2B Product marketing. 

Reports to the SVP of Growth; Initially 5 direct reports across content, conversion, and campaign planning roles but with an expectation of building out a world class team in alignment with the growth of Company. 

Specifically you’ll:

  • Create marketing programs to generate the pipeline needed to achieve the company’s annual revenue target, ensuring that marketing coverage is on target and high quality
  • Completely own our acquisition goals and the path to get there within CAC targets
  • Build out a high-performance team of direct reports and agencies
  • Optimize our existing acquisition channels and build out new ones, including paid, organic, SEO, SEM, partners, referrals, social, digital, direct mail, and more
  • Optimize conversion and the customer lifecycle, driving the right leads to sales and nurturing customers through their journey
  • Manage our paid and organic marketing budgets
  • Understand how all marketing functions connect strategically, which enables you to determine where customers are in the buyer’s journey, and the right marketing touches to advance them.
  • Partner closely with product teams, sales, customer success, finance, and other marketing functions to define and lead growth initiatives that drive acquisition, expansion, retention, and referrals, and product adoption.
  • Understand our target audience and personas, design experiments, and drive activation of campaigns.
  • Partner closely with website, product, and support teams to continuously test, optimize and improve customer experience, engagement and conversion metrics.
  • Understand our top performing assets and offers across every channel and provide feedback to the campaigns, content marketing, product marketing and brand teams on which message is resonating in-market.
  • Work with Marketing Operations to analyze all aspects of Company’s conversion funnel, identify areas for improvement, and implement strategies to capitalize on these opportunities.
  • Ensure that we have the right activity mix to drive growth, including awareness, contact acquisition, and demand generation.
  • Conduct ongoing competitive research to help inform strategies. Keep current with latest trends and best practices.

Within 30 Days You’ll:

  • Progress through our Ramp Camp (Company’s New Hire Onboarding Experience).
  • Meet with Executive and senior leadership from Product, Design, Sales, Customer Success, Customer Support, Partnerships, and Data and Analytics departments, understanding their business goals.
  • Observe a Company product demonstration.
  • Finalize an organizational structure and hiring roadmap.
  • Assess the marketing team’s campaign process and audit existing projects and workflows.

Within 60 Days, You’ll:

  • Build out the Growth Marketing function roles and align with Sales, Operations, Partnerships and Product Teams.
  • Create and own pipeline dashboards for marketing sourced impact on revenue and acquisition goals.
  • Create and communicate Growth Marketing strategy and associated OKRs in alignment with company strategic goals.

Within 6 months, You’ll:

  • Drive a focused, nimble and high performance Growth Marketing function with demonstrated impact on acquisition, customer, partnership and affiliate growth in accordance with overall company strategy.

You Should Apply If:

  • You have 5+ years experience in growth marketing leadership or related roles
  • You have 10+ years experience in marketing
  • You have a desire to be hands on, get in the weeds, do the work when needed
  • You have experience managing a high-performance team and agency resources
  • You have a proven ability to set goals and strategy and coach a team to achieve them
  • You have familiarity with both paid and organic channels and a variety of growth tactics
  • You have experience driving growth across the customer lifecycle
  • You have experience at a hyper growth company, in either SMB or consumer space
  • You have an understanding of best practices in design, copy, and creative for effective campaigns
  • You’re comfortable with A/B testing and experiment design
  • You have an ability to juggle multiple projects at once and not lose track of the details
  • You have experience managing a breadth of demand tactics (digital to physical)
  • You have have strong leadership experience (managed large teams, including close alignment with SDR teams)
  • You have experience scaling partner marketing programs
  • You are experienced with Salesforce, Marketo, A/B testing tools
  • You have experience in multiple market segments and go to market motions (product led, SMB, Mid Market, Enterprise), with a solid understanding of how each works
  • You have an entrepreneurial spirit and are able to roll up your sleeves and get answers and results
  • You have excellent writing skills with high editorial standards.

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