Director of Growth

Boulder, CO (On-site)

$120K/yr – $155K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale a retail performance engine with a multi-channel, multi-team footprint and PMAX driven efficiency.

  • Growth leadership: Manage a direct-report team of growth marketers while steering top agency partnerships.
  • Budget & channel: Own a multi-million NA budget and drive CAC/ROAS optimization across paid search and social.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage Multiple Direct Reports: Lead, mentor, and build a high-performing internal team of specialized growth marketers (including channel managers and specialists) while effectively managing top-tier external agency relationships.
  • Strategic Budget Allocation: Direct a multi-million dollar annual acquisition budget across North American digital marketing initiatives, ensuring optimal cross-channel deployment to scale customer acquisition costs (CAC) efficiently.
  • Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate closely with Brand Marketing, Merchandising, and E-commerce Operations teams to align paid media spend with product availability, high-heat sneaker drops, and seasonal promotional calendars.
  • Hit acquisition volume targets and ROAS/efficiency targets simultaneously - knowing when to push growth and when to pull back
  • Advanced Search & PMAX Strategy: Drive the overarching paid search roadmap, with a major focus on maximizing the efficiency of Google Performance Max (PMAX) and automated smart bidding architectures to dominate retail market share.
  • Full-Funnel Paid Social: Oversee paid social strategy across mature and emerging platforms—specifically Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and YouTube—leveraging algorithmic targeting and creative testing frameworks to capture youth culture.
  • Affiliate & Partner Distribution: Scale the North American Affiliate marketing program, shifting past transactional coupon models to focus on strategic content publishers, lifestyle blogs, and high-influence creator networks.
  • Data Attribution & Testing: Spearhead multi-touch attribution, conversion rate optimization (CRO) testing frameworks, and data integration efforts to continually improve Return on Ad Spend (ROAS).
  • Creative strategy and testing roadmap in partnership with our brand marketing and Creative team

Requirements

  • 7+ years of performance marketing/growth experience, with a mandatory background in retail or e-commerce ecosystems (footwear, apparel, or consumer goods strongly preferred).
  • Experience managing acquisition across multiple channels brands, business lines or conversion events.
  • Experience managing $50m+ in performance marketing budget
  • Proven track record of managing and scaling a team with multiple direct reports. You excel at setting clear KPIs, fostering professional growth, and keeping teams aligned in a fast-paced retail environment.

Benefits

  • This role will be eligible for medical, dental, vision, 401k, sick leave, parental leave, and company paid time off plan.
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Finish Line Promotions designs high-impact promotional campaigns that do one thing first—and best: move the needle on revenue. We combine smart sales strategy, creative activations, and rigorous market analysis to turn attention into measurable results.Sales Strategy Development — We build customized playbooks that tighten your sales funnel, increase close rates, and make your reps more effective. Promotional Campaigns — From pop-ups and in-store demos to experiential activations, every program is tailored to your brand, audience, and KPIs. Market Analysis — We dig into customer behavior and competitive landscapes so every tactic is driven by opportunity, not guesswork.Our approach is simple: target the right people, with the right message, at the right time — then measure everything. That means clear KPIs, real-time reporting, and campaigns optimized to maximize ROI, lifetime value, and conversion velocity.Ready to stop hoping for results and start engineering them? Connect with Finish Line Promotions to design a promotion that closes the gap between interest and purchase.

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