Head of Growth & Marketing

Austin, TX (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive integrated, full-funnel marketing leadership at a high-growth, Contrarian Thinking firm to fuel pipeline and revenue while building scalable teams and playbooks.

  • Must-have: 7–10+ years in marketing leadership with proven full-funnel impact across growth environments.
  • Must-have: deep paid media expertise across Meta, Google, and cross-channel strategy.
  • Standout: track record building scalable processes, teams, and playbooks with cross-functional impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversee all marketing functions (organic, paid, content, email, design, events) and ensure they work as a cohesive system
  • Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing team while empowering individual ownership.
  • Develop and execute strategies for event ticket sales, high-ticket program growth, and product launches.
  • Ensure marketing consistently fuels the sales pipeline and revenue goals with profitable growth.
  • Architect and oversee paid media strategy—owning both high-level vision and tactical execution.
  • Design lifecycle and email campaigns that nurture leads, convert customers, and build retention.
  • Guide creative and content outputs to align with brand standards while staying conversion-focused.
  • Structure pitches, decks, and programming for events and sales campaigns that convert.
  • Create repeatable frameworks and playbooks that allow campaigns to scale without constant reinvention.
  • Monitor performance across all channels, surface red flags early, and adjust course quickly.

Requirements

  • 7–10+ years of marketing leadership in high-growth environments (media, creator-led, or info product space a plus)
  • Proven success scaling full-funnel marketing: awareness lead gen conversions retention.
  • Deep expertise in paid media strategy and theory across Meta, Google, and beyond
  • Skilled in lifecycle/email marketing and funnel optimization
  • Strong grasp of information architecture for pitches, decks, and event programming that converts
  • Equally creative and analytical — comfortable balancing storytelling with data-driven decision-making
  • Experience managing and growing teams; proven ability to mentor while holding high standards
  • Adept at building systems, processes, and playbooks that drive efficiency and scale
  • Cross-functional operator who thrives working with Sales and Growth to drive revenue outcomes
  • Ten steps ahead thinker who anticipates challenges and opportunities before they hit

Preferred

  • Benefits from a contrarian, growth-oriented mindset with ability to operate in ambiguity

Benefits

  • 100% Company-paid health, dental, and vision for all full-time Crew Members with an option to add dependents
  • Unlimited PTO policy (with approval from your Direct Support) + 8 paid US holidays
  • On-time direct deposit pay 2x/month
  • Option to enroll in a 401(k) plan via Vestwell
  • Learn expert deal-making and how to buy businesses with 100% free access to all of our courses and our flagship Contrarian Academy
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Contrarian Thinking

Most people don’t lack ideas — they lack an operating system to execute.At Contrarian Thinking, we help take back Main Street by buying and building businesses the smart way. Whether you’re a solopreneur or a seasoned operator, we help you figure out how to buy or grow your business predictably, consistently, less painfully. Built to Make You Faster. Smoother. More Profitable. Or what we call our GPS.GAMEPLANWe help you set your vision (what we call your gameplan) for your company, your life and your team. If you don't have the destination set, it's much harder to get there.PEOPLEWe help you surround yourself with operators, deal scouts, capital partners, and advisors who’ve actually bought and scaled businesses — not just talked about it. Then we help you build your team to your plan.SYSTEMWe give you the operating system: how to find, finance, fix, buy, and scale businesses. From due diligence to SOPs to hiring your first GM — our frameworks honed through 15 years in private equity and operating walk you through it.WHY SO MANY FOUNDERS & BUYERS PARTNER WITH US?- Acquisitions that cash-flow- Businesses that scale and are built to last- Step-by-step deal support and tools- A community of 5k+ buyers and owners- A team that is better than you, alongside you- Long-term wealth from real equity, not just hustleWHO ARE WE?We are an investment firm and media company led by Codie Sanchez, 15+ year veteran of private equity and operator of a portfolio of Main Street businesses. We help owners BUY, SCALE, SELL. We buy businesses, teach our partners how to do acquisitions, then we help them scale to create enduring businesses they love to run. We build tools like BizScout (one of the largest business acquisition marketplaces in the world), Growth Boardroom (operating system and community for business owners over $1M+), Contrarian Thinking Capital (venture capital firm investing in the next generation of tech for businesses). Come build with us.

Founded in 2020
Austin, Texas, USA
37 employees (14 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
163.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.7%
Direct
58.3%
Referral
6.9%
Social
8.2%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~41

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
11 (30% of company)