Director, Head of Creators (Copy)

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

$190K/yr – $215K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end growth across verticals, partnerships, and creator success, shaping GTM playbooks, leading ecosystem programs, and building onboarding and tiered support to accelerate activation and retention.

  • Drive cross-functional collaboration across marketing, product, and partnerships
  • Scale creator-driven growth through strategic partnerships and vertical-focused strategies

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Growth Strategy & Vertical Expansion
  • - Working closely with vertical leads, shape the acquisition and activation strategy for creators across prioritized verticals (eg. music, podcasts, etc), defining the playbooks that unlock repeatable growth.
  • - Partner with Insights and Growth Marketing to identify high-potential segments, test acquisition levers, and build conversion funnels that move users from awareness to activation.
  • - Develop vertical-specific go-to-market strategies for potential growth categories.
  • - Nurture relationships with our most influential creators while being strategic about how to best to leverage for long tail acquisition.
  • Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
  • - Lead partnerships that drive distribution, awareness, and adoption, including platform integrations, creator networks, and category associations.
  • - Collaborate on co-marketing campaigns and ambassador programs that position Linktree as the default choice for creators.
  • - Partner with growth marketing and product on scalable frameworks for referral, affiliate, and ecosystem programs that accelerate growth in key verticals.
  • Creator Support Systems

Requirements

  • 8–12+ years of experience in growth, partnerships, or marketing leadership, ideally within creator economy, SaaS, or digital platform environments.
  • Proven success designing and running partnership strategies that drive scaled customer acquisition, not just account management for top partners.
  • Strong understanding of creator behavior, including what drives adoption, retention, and monetization.
  • Track record of leading cross-functional teams and turning data into strategic insight and action.
  • Balance of analytical rigor and creative marketing instinct; able to zoom between strategy and execution.

Preferred

  • Bonus Points: experience with SMB and creator-preneur segments.

Benefits

  • An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, home office set-up - the choice is yours!
  • 100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for US-based employees.
  • Employer contribution towards your retirement.
  • Generous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time, and other categories.
  • Employee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success.
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Linktree

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Linktree enables creators, brands, artists, publishers, agencies, and businesses of all sizes to curate a place where they can share, sell and grow. Among the top 300 most popular website destinations globally, Linktrees see over 1.2 billion unique visitors a month.In 2021 alone, we enabled over one million artists to generate 90 million streams across platforms – twice as many artists and three times as many streams than in the year prior. In 2022, we launched a developer marketplace and a mobile app to continue compounding the success for creators everywhere. That’s why more than 70 million people and global brands link everything they are on Linktree, including TikTok, Selena Gomez, Red Bull, Shawn Mendes, the LA Clippers, The Rock and HBO.

Founded in 2016
Collingwood, Victoria, AUS
308 employees (63 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
76% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
191.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$202.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.5%
Direct
53.2%
Referral
4.7%
Social
20.4%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~310

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
35 (11% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
1.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

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