Head of Product-Led Growth Marketing

USA (Remote)

$220K/yr – $373K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own a global growth engine that blends paid media, lifecycle retention, and data-driven experimentation to accelerate both self-serve and enterprise revenue, while building PQL-driven partnerships across product, engineering, and sales.

  • Growth & Lifecycle: Drive activation, retention, and premium upgrades through cross-channel programs (email, in-product, push) with tight CAC/LTV discipline.
  • Cross-Functional Growth: Define PQL criteria and surface high-potential self-serve accounts for ABM and outbound enterprise efforts through close collaboration with Product, Data, Field Marketing, and Sales.
  • Data-Driven Excellence: Establish rigorous experimentation and analytics to optimize journey ROI and decision-making across channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • P&L Ownership: Drive the strategic vision and financial accountability for Dropbox’s PLG marketing revenue, maximizing customer lifetime value (LTV) while managing efficient customer acquisition costs (CAC).
  • Paid Media Strategy: Oversee global paid media budgets across performance and brand channels. Deliver aligned Statements of Work (SOW) to support Brand and Field Marketing while relentlessly optimizing self-serve user acquisition.
  • Lifecycle & Retention Marketing: Own the global lifecycle marketing strategy (email, in-product, push) to accelerate user activation, habit formation, premium upgrades, and long-term retention.
  • Web & Search Optimization: Lead SEO/GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and Web properties to drive high-quality organic traffic, continuous conversion rate optimization (CRO), and deep user engagement.
  • Cross-Functional Orchestration & PQL Pipeline: Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, and Data Analytics to build seamless growth loops. Collaborate directly with the Field Marketing and Sales organizations to define Product Qualified Lead (PQL) criteria, ensuring high-potential self-serve accounts are efficiently surfaced for enterprise ABM targeting and sales outbound execution.
  • Data & Experimentation Culture: Establish a rigorous culture of experimentation (A/B testing, incrementality testing) and leverage advanced analytics to continuously optimize the customer journey and campaign ROI.
  • Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and scale a world-class, diverse team of digital marketers, fostering a culture of excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of digital marketing experience with increasing scope and leadership responsibility, ideally spanning high-growth B2B SaaS and/or scale B2C environments.
  • 5+ years of experience directly managing and scaling multi-disciplinary teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design.
  • Deep Media Expertise: Proven track record of managing large-scale paid media programs (search, social, video, display) that simultaneously drive brand equity and measurable self-serve acquisition.
  • Advanced Lifecycle Mastery: Proven success leading complex lifecycle programs using sophisticated segmentation, personalization, and cross-channel orchestration (email, in-app, push).
  • Analytical Rigor: Deep comfort with complex attribution models, incrementality testing, Media Mix Modeling (MMM), and translating complex performance data into crisp, executive-ready narratives.
  • Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to align creative, product, sales, finance, and data teams around shared revenue goals.

Preferred

  • Hybrid GTM Experience: Proven success operating in a hybrid GTM model, with a track record of leveraging product usage data to fuel enterprise sales pipelines and account-based marketing (ABM) strategies.
  • Experience managing large global media budgets ($50M+) and complex agency/partner ecosystems.
  • Strong familiarity with modern MarTech and AdTech stacks, including Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), marketing automation, multi-touch attribution tools, and data privacy governance.

Benefits

  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting
  • Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
  • Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance
  • Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance
  • Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food and groceries, and much more
  • Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Child and Adult Care, Day Care FSA, Fertility Benefits, Adoption and Surrogacy Support, and Lactation Support
  • Access to over 10,000 global co-working spaces through Gable.tomaking it easy to book flexible workspaces for collaboration or individual work
  • Quarterly Cell phone and internet allowance
  • Mental health and wellness benefits
  • Disability and neurodivergence support benefits
  • Additional benefit details are available upon request
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