Lead Content Strategist

Durham, NC (Remote)

$126K/yr – $155K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the full creative engine for Grove’s content, shaping the strategy, briefs, and hands-on execution for paid and organic across social and UGC while steering creator partnerships and organic roadmap to hit growth metrics.

  • Content Strategy & Creative Direction: Own the overarching strategy, briefs, and messaging frameworks across paid ads, organic social, and UGC to scale performance.
  • Creator & Channel Execution: Manage UGC creator scoping, briefs, contracts and publish-ready output across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, aligning with performance insights and platform trends.
  • Organic Roadmap & Performance: Own the organic social roadmap with the Social Manager, driving weekly reviews and data-informed iterations to improve growth and retention.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain overarching content strategy across paid and organic channels, with a focus on performance, scalability, and alignment to growth priorities
  • Translate Grove's mission and product value propositions into creative concepts, briefs, and messaging frameworks that resonate across audiences and can be consistently applied across channels
  • Write and own all creative briefs for paid ads, organic social, UGC, and new channel tests — including hooks, formats, copy direction, and audience framing — ensuring clarity, consistency, and scalability
  • Lead category and audience expansion concepting for paid ads in partnership with the Paid Media Manager and Director of Growth, contributing strategic recommendations based on performance insights
  • Manage the full UGC creator pool — scouting, briefing, contracts, deliverable tracking, and quality across paid and organic Meta, TikTok, and YouTube — ensuring output aligns with defined creative standards
  • Own the strategic roadmap for organic social, with the Social Manager executing day-to-day, ensuring priorities and direction are clearly defined
  • Stay ahead of platform trends, winning ad formats, and emerging creative techniques and bring those insights back to the team to inform ongoing strategy
  • Drive weekly creative performance reviews — identify what's working, stop what isn't, and define clear next iterations based on data and learnings

Requirements

  • 6–8+ years of experience in content strategy, creative strategy, or a hybrid paid/organic role, ideally at a consumer-facing or e-commerce brand
  • Strong storyteller with excellent creative instincts, editorial judgment, and the ability to educate and inspire audiences across social platforms
  • Deep fluency across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Pinterest, and emerging platforms, with a strong understanding of algorithm behavior, retention mechanics, and performance drivers
  • Proven experience leading both organic social and paid creative strategy, with the ability to build brand presence and drive conversion within defined growth objectives
  • Strong understanding of performance-driven creative — you know what makes content stop the scroll and can translate insights into repeatable frameworks
  • Hands-on production experience, including filming, editing (CapCut, Adobe Suite, or similar), and publishing content yourself
  • Data-literate, with the ability to use performance insights to inform creative decisions and recommend next steps
  • AI fluency — actively using AI tools to improve speed, output, and quality, and able to guide others in applying them effectively
  • Experience managing creative talent (producers, editors, contractors) and driving output through a collaborative, hands-on leadership style
  • Experience with UGC platforms and creator management workflows at scale
  • Comfortable operating across both strategy and execution — able to move between hands-on work and presenting clear creative direction to leadership

Benefits

  • This full-time, exempt position is remote for candidates based in the following states: California, Maine, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, Colorado, Washington, Illinois, New York, Missouri, and Massachusetts.
  • Competitive benefits - medical, vision, dental
  • Equity - shared success is core to our mission
  • Flexible Paid Time Off - we care most about results
  • Free VIP membership and 50% employee discount
  • Working for a company that believes that a small group of people can change the world for the better by creating products and funding initiatives that help the planet!
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We’re Grove Collaborative, your one-stop shop for brands you love and that love the planet.340+ vetted brands We bring together innovative brands across cleaning, wellness, and more everyday essentials. Every brand on our “shelves” has met rigorous standards for efficacy, ingredients, ethics, and more social and environmental criteria, so you can shop with complete peace of mind. Plastic neutral Grove is the world’s first plastic neutral retailer. For every ounce of plastic packaging you purchase from Grove, we collect the same amount of nature-bound plastic pollution in partnership with rePurpose Global.CarbonNeutral® Certified We offset unpreventable emissions by financing external renewable energy and forest conservation projects. People & planet driven As a Certified B Corporation, we prioritize social, environmental, and community well-being over everything else. We’re always on the search for bright minds and go-getters with a passion for the planet. Sound like you? Check out our available positions at www.grove.com/careers.

Founded in 2012
San Francisco, California, USA
431 employees (42 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$192
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27.8%
Direct
65.8%
Referral
4.1%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~431

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
36 (8% of company)
Median Career Experience
10.5 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$621.5M
Last Raise
$15M
Post IPO Equity, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2024
    Post IPO Equity • $15M
  • Dec 2022
    Post IPO Debt • $72M
  • Jun 2022
    Post IPO Equity • $86M

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