VP/SVP Metrics & Growth-Rate App

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$175K/yr – $200K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the growth measurement and execution engine for a fintech app, designing KPI frameworks, real-time analytics, and scalable experiments that drive activation, retention, and revenue across product, marketing, and engineering.

  • Growth governance: KPI framework, attribution, dashboards, and executive reporting.
  • Experimentation engine: rapid A/B/multivariate testing and funnel optimization across channels.
  • Cross-functional leadership: partner with data science, product, and marketing to scale proven growth tactics and improve ROI.

Job Description

Responsibilities\n- Design and implement a comprehensive KPI framework that tracks user acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, revenue, and referral metrics across the Rate App ecosystem.\n- Establish data infrastructure and reporting systems that provide real-time visibility into product performance, user behavior, and growth funnel metrics.\n- Define success metrics for all growth initiatives and ensure rigorous measurement and attribution across channels.\n- Build executive dashboards and reporting cadences that drive data-informed decision making at all levels of the organization.\n- Partner with Data Science and Analytics teams to develop predictive models and advanced analytics capabilities.\n- Lead growth hacking initiatives across paid acquisition, organic growth, viral loops, referral programs, and retention optimization.\n- Drive rapid experimentation through A/B testing, multivariate testing, and growth experiments to identify scalable acquisition and engagement strategies.\n- Optimize conversion funnels and eliminate friction points throughout the user journey from awareness through transaction completion.\n- Develop and execute channel-specific growth strategies including SEO, SEM, social media, content marketing, partnerships, and in-app growth levers.\n- Scale successful growth tactics from pilot to full deployment while maintaining rigorous ROI discipline.\n- Drive complex, high-velocity growth programs across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Analytics teams in a fast-paced fintech environment.\n- Establish program governance structures, sprint cadences, and accountability frameworks that enable rapid execution without sacrificing quality.\n- Manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities and resource constraints, ensuring alignment and momentum across all workstreams.\n- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization, translating growth metrics into business impact and securing buy-in for resource allocation.\n- Lead weekly growth reviews, monthly business reviews, and quarterly planning cycles that keep teams focused on the highest-impact opportunities.\n- Conduct deep-dive analyses to understand user behavior patterns, identify growth bottlenecks, and uncover optimization opportunities.\n- Build cohort analyses, lifetime value models, and churn prediction frameworks that inform product and marketing strategy.\n- Establish benchmarking against industry standards and competitive products to identify performance gaps and opportunities.\n- Implement attribution modeling to accurately measure the ROI of growth investments across channels.\n- Drive continuous improvement through systematic post-mortems, learnings documentation, and best practice sharing.
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The mortgage and finance company that can get you approved in as little as one day. NMLS ID: 2611Operating as Guaranteed Rate, Inc. in New York.Guaranteed Rate, Inc. D/B/A Rate; NMLS #2611; For licensing information visit www.nmlsconsumeraccess.orgwww.rate.com/licensing • AZ: Arizona Mortgage Banker License #0907078 • CA: Licensed by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation under the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act • GA: Residential Mortgage Licensee #20973 • NJ: Licensed by the N.J. Department of Banking and Insurance • NY: Licensed Mortgage Banker - NYS Department of Financial Services, 750 Lexington Ave. Suite 2010, New York, New York 10022, Licensed Mortgage Banker - NYS Department of Financial Services, 750 Lexington Ave. Suite 2010, New York, New York 10022. Doing business in New York as Guaranteed Rate, Inc. • RI: Rhode Island Licensed Lender • TX: www.rate.com/texas-consumers-how-to-file-complaint. CO: Regulated by the Division of Real Estate. Licensed by the New Hampshire Banking Department. OR: Licensed and Regulated by the Department of Consumer and Business Services Licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities.

Founded in 2000
Chicago, Illinois, USA
5.3K employees (258 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
491.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$849.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.2%
Direct
63.7%
Referral
9.5%
Social
0.3%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
223 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2017
    Private Equity

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