Head of Growth

San Diego, CA (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end growth and funnel instrumentation with a product-minded leader who builds, ships, and measures activation, retention, and monetization loops inside the core product and lifecycle channels.

  • Own the growth model, from activation to paid conversion, across school, teacher, and parent audiences.
  • Ship in-product growth experiments and lifecycle campaigns (email, in-app, referrals) with clear measurement.
  • Collaborate with product to embed growth loops in the core experience and scale with data-driven decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You'd lead a small team, set the strategy, and do a lot of the work yourself.
  • There is no agency on retainer. There's no big department waiting for a leader.
  • You'd own the growth model end to end. What levers move activation, what loops drive referral, how we convert free schools to paid, how we think about the parent audience, how we instrument and improve each stage of the funnel.
  • You'd look at the whole picture and decide where to focus.
  • You'd execute most of it yourself. Lifecycle email, in-app campaigns, referral mechanics, activation flows, landing pages, launch experiments. You'd write, build, ship, and measure.
  • You'd manage and develop the people on your team, but the strategic and cross-functional growth work is yours to do.
  • You'd work like a product person. Our best growth levers are baked into the product itself — school-to-home sharing, in-app events, activation flows, the moment a teacher sees a student's face light up and tells another teacher.
  • You'd work closely with our product team to identify and build these loops. You've shipped things in-product, not just around it.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in growth or product marketing, with at least 2 in a senior or lead role at a company under 50 people
  • You've been the first or second growth hire at a small company - and built things from scratch rather than inheriting a system
  • You've owned activation rate, free-to-paid conversion, or a specific retention metric as your primary KPI — not as a secondary outcome of a campaign you ran
  • You can describe a funnel you've instrumented from scratch — what you measured, what broke, and what you changed
  • You have in depth experience managing PLG initiativesyourself: referral mechanics, activation flows, lifecycle email, in-app campaigns. Not managed vendors who did it- you actually built it
  • You've marketed to an institutional B2B audience (schools, government, nonprofits, healthcare) and understand that procurement isn't an impulse purchase
  • You're data literate: you can pull metrics, build a funnel view, instrument an experiment, and make decisions without a dedicated analyst
  • You can operate growth tools end-to-end — build an email, add instrumentation, read data, and iterate without waiting for help
  • You think about growth as a system, not a collection of channels
  • You're comfortable with ambiguity and can self-direct without much structure

Preferred

  • You have edtech experience, ideally K-12 or a platform with a teacher/parent dual audience
  • You've grown a school-to-home or B2B2C channel where the end user and the budget holder are different people
  • You've shipped a referral or word-of-mouth program with measurable lift

Benefits

  • 100% covered Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance
  • Gym membership stipend
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Kodable Education

Kodable is an award-winning K-5 learn-to-code curriculum taking students from learning to think like a programmer in Kindergarten to writing real JavaScript by 5th grade.Trusted by over 50% of US Elementary Schools and over 23 Million users, Kodable provides easy to follow lessons and games for school and home use, no computer science experience required. Watch as your child explores the universe of coding problem solving, math, and language arts with their new friends - the fuzzFamily!

Founded in 2013
San Diego, California, USA
9 employees (3 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
495.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.5%
Direct
64.8%
Referral
6.1%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (22% of company)

Funding

Last Raise
Seed, 10 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2015
    Seed
  • Jan 2014
    Seed