VP of Growth & Marketing

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

$170K/yr – $210K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the growth engine for patient and sponsor markets, building a scalable strategy and team that unites patient recruitment, brand storytelling, and demand generation while keeping product experience aligned with marketing promises.

  • Growth ownership: recruit, enroll, and engage patients; build repeatable funnels across community channels and partnerships.
  • Brand & demand: govern patient and sponsor brands, lead external thought leadership in HRO and real world evidence.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the whole function
  • Own Folia's growth vision and story across B2C and B2B, and lead the team that delivers it
  • Manage, develop, and grow existing direct reports across both motions
  • Define how the patient brand and the sponsor brand relate, so each strengthens the other rather than competing for attention
  • Set the metrics that matter for both motions and report on them to the founding team
  • Patient and caregiver growth (B2C)
  • Own patient recruitment into our research programs, from awareness through enrollment to long-term engagement and retention
  • Hit and report on recruitment goals: enrollment targets per study, cost per enrolled patient, time-to-enroll, and retention across the study lifecycle
  • Define target condition segments and build repeatable, measurable acquisition funnels across community channels, advocacy partnerships, and our existing user base
  • Tell the story of a patient-advocate brand that does right by individual users, even when it's not convenient to the business

Requirements

  • A leader with a track record of leading high-impact initiatives in a startup environment
  • Experienced across both B2C/DTC growth
  • Fluent in metrics: you've owned acquisition, retention, and pipeline numbers and reported on them to executives
  • A strategic, first-principles thinker who is also willing to operate hands-on in a startup with room to run
  • Unsatisfied with the status quo for people living with complex chronic conditions

Preferred

  • healthcare, life sciences, or pharma marketing experience; direct or personal experience with a complex, chronic, or rare condition

Benefits

  • health, dental, vision, and a 401k plan