VP, Consumer Growth Marketing

New York City, NY (On-site)

$200K/yr – $275K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own growth and rider insights programs, turning end-user research, segmentation, and attribution into measurable improvements across acquisition, lifecycle, and campaigns.

  • Growth & Insights: Own rider growth strategy, segmentation, and cross-market targeting to scale adoption and engagement.
  • Research & Analytics: Lead quantitative and qualitative studies to inform product, policy, and ops decisions.
  • MarTech & Data: Design and optimize the marketing tech stack, data infrastructure, and attribution to improve spend efficiency and decision making.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead company-wide Rider Growth and Rider Insights functions, ensuring the voice of the end-user is systematically integrated into Product, Policy, and Operations strategies.
  • Optimize user acquisition, deepen market segmentation, and enhance our targeting capabilities across diverse global demographics.
  • Oversee global research methodologies, ensuring robust and effective execution of quantitative and qualitative studies, including surveys, focus groups, and on-site field research.
  • Architect our growth-focused MarTech stack and data infrastructure, optimizing platform connectivity, data feeds, and attribution modeling while maintaining efficiency in marketing spend.
  • Partner directly with Via's buyers, including cities, transit agencies, and corporations, to design and implement localized marketing strategies and testing plans in their communities.
  • Drive rigorous lifecycle testing and performance visualization, implementing data-driven experimentation frameworks across channels and building dashboards to evaluate quarterly OKR progression.
  • Serve as an active member of the Marketing Leadership team, collaborating with peers on global brand initiatives while managing, inspiring, and scaling the careers of your direct reports.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10+ years of experience in consumer marketing with a track record of planning and executing lifecycle strategies that drive transformative customer acquisition and business growth.
  • Data and MarTech strategist with deep expertise in marketing technology, multi-channel attribution, conversion rate optimization, data visualization tools, and customer segmentation.
  • Comprehensive channel expertise across the entire marketing mix including digital and offline media landscapes, backed by continuous testing.
  • Customer oriented: understanding the psychology of what works and why.
  • Skilled cross-functional communicator who can easily engage and align diverse stakeholders, ranging from local everyday transit riders to city agency executives and internal teams.
  • Hands-on leader who combines high-level strategic vision with the technical ability to teach, troubleshoot, and execute directly across the marketing stack.
  • High-agency self-starter who navigates ambiguity effectively, values collaborative cross-functional problem solving, and thrives in a fast-paced, operationally dynamic environment.

Preferred

    Benefits

    • free medical plans
    • 401K matching
    • catered lunch on Wednesdays
    • many other perks
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    Via

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    Via is on a mission to create public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education. Our platform serves as the technology backbone for modern transit networks, transforming antiquated and siloed public transportation systems into smart, data-driven, and efficient digital networks. With hundreds of agency partners in 30+ countries, Via is recognized as the leading transportation technology and service provider for governments.Via’s platform has pioneered microtransit — a new mode of mass transit — and today offers a comprehensive, end-to-end public transit solution that helps our customers design, operate, and optimize their transit systems using software, services, and billions of proprietary real-world trip data points. The result: lower costs, equitable access, and better passenger experiences.

    Founded in 2012
    New York, New York, USA
    1.8K employees (121 in marketing)
    74% recommend to a friend
    81% CEO approval

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    295K
    Monthly Google Ads Budget
    $2.2K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    37.3%
    Direct
    49.6%
    Referral
    9.6%
    Social
    2.6%
    Paid
    0.7%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~2K

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    51 (3% of company)
    Median Career Experience
    9.5 years
    Median Tenure
    5.8 years
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    5

    Funding

    Total Funding
    $887.1M
    Last Raise
    $110M
    Series Unknown, 3 years ago

    Funding History

    • Feb 2023
      Series Unknown • $110M
    • Nov 2021
      Series G • $130M
    • Mar 2021
      Series Unknown • $60M

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