Director of Growth Marketing

New York, USA (On-site)

$150K/yr – $300K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Fortell’s growth marketing strategy across paid, owned, and emerging channels to grow revenue and clinic traffic.

  • Must-have: 10+ years in growth/performance marketing with DTC or multi-location services.
  • Standout: Proven leadership of cross-functional growth teams and partnerships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Growth Strategy & Planning: Own the overall growth marketing strategy and roadmap, including channel mix, budget allocation, and performance targets across paid, owned, and emerging channels.
  • Performance Marketing & Paid Media: Lead all paid acquisition setting strategy, overseeing execution, and continuously optimizing for CAC and LTV.
  • Affiliate & Partnerships Channel: Build and scale our affiliate partner program. Define strategy and terms, recruit and manage partners/publishers, ensure brand-safe placements, and optimize for CAC, LTV, and incrementality with clear tracking and payout governance.
  • Website & Conversion: Own fortell.com as a revenue and lead engine, partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering to improve site, UX, and conversion; drive experimentation across landing pages, funnels, and onsite messaging.
  • Attribution, Measurement & Analytics: Build and refine the measurement stack (tracking, attribution, dashboards) so we can understand performance across the full funnel; define core KPIs and deliver clear, actionable reporting to marketing and leadership.
  • Experimentation & Optimization: Establish a rigorous test-and-learn culture across channels and the site.
  • Clinic Growth: Drive qualified traffic and appointments to Fortell clinics (current and future locations) through digital and offline campaigns.
  • Lifecycle & Retention: Partner with lifecycle to build high-performing programs that support acquisition cohorts, reduce leakage, and increase engagement and referrals.
  • Team Leadership & Collaboration: Hire, lead, and develop a high-performing growth team over time; work in tight partnership with Brand Marketing, Creative, Social, Product, Finance, and Clinic Operations to ensure alignment and shared goals.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in growth / performance marketing: strong direct-to-consumer and/or multi-location services experience preferred.
  • Deep paid media expertise: you have directly managed or overseen significant acquisition budgets across channels (search, social, display, video, etc.) and know how to balance efficiency and scale.
  • Affiliate marketing experience: you’ve launched or scaled an affiliate/partner channel (networks or direct), including tracking/attribution, partner management, and performance optimization.
  • Ecommerce and funnel owner: you’ve owned a revenue-generating website or storefront, including conversion optimization, experimentation, and coordination with product/design/engineering.
  • Highly analytical operator: you are fluent in data, attribution, and experimentation; you can build or guide dashboards, interpret results, and translate numbers into strategy and next actions.
  • Strategic and hands-on: you set the long-term growth strategy and also dive into channels, campaigns, or dashboards when needed.
  • Experienced leader: you’ve managed and developed high-performing teams and/or agencies, and you know how to organize people and resources around clear goals.
  • Strong collaborator: you work well with Brand, Creative, Product, Finance, and Operations; you can argue from data while respecting the craft and constraints of other teams.
  • Mission-driven: you are motivated by helping people experience life more fully through better hearing, and you’re excited to build the most trusted hearing care brand in the world.
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    Fortell

    Fortell is designing better hearing aids for life as it’s meant to be heard.Traditional hearing aids make everything louder but they don’t do enough to help the brain separate conversation from noise in the moments that matter.Fortell changes that. Our AI-powered hearing technology doesn’t just amplify, it clarifies. Fortell uses custom AI chips to help the brain decode speech in real time, lifting voices up above the chaos so people don’t just hear, they understand.Our mission is ambitious yet deeply personal: to restore effortless connection through better hearing. Every decision we make is grounded in cutting-edge science, human-centered design, and a commitment to improving lives at scale.We are backed by Thrive Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Optum Ventures, Lux Capital, Vast Ventures, Good Friends, Positive Sum, Stonecroft, and Atreides Management. Our debut product is available now at Fortell Audiology on Park Avenue and 61st Street.We move fast, build with intention, and never lose sight of the people we’re building for. We’re bringing together exceptional minds in technology, science, design, and care–and we’re just getting started.We’re hiring. Join us as we bring clarity and connection back to life.

    Founded in 2021
    51 employees

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    6.5K
    Monthly Google Ads Budget
    $23.2K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    12.6%
    Direct
    16.1%
    Referral
    2.1%
    Social
    0.8%
    Paid
    1.8%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~55