Associate Manager, Growth Marketing

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$80K/yr – $90K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 11 days ago

Job Summary

You will own the end-to-end paid media program, driving campaign execution, analysis, and optimization across Social, Search, Affiliate, and Display, while leading creative briefs, testing, and cross-team collaboration.

  • Own creative process and testing programs across channels
  • Analyze performance to improve CAC, ROAS, and revenue while coordinating with internal and external partners

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support day-to-day execution and optimization of paid media campaigns across Paid Social, Paid Search, Affiliate, and Display
  • Analyze campaign performance, identifying trends, and providing actionable insights to improve KPIs such as CAC, ROAS, and revenue
  • Own creative process from start to finish in partnership with internal teams and agency partners
  • Develop and manage creative briefs across Paid Social, Paid Search, Display, and Affiliate in partnership with creative, copy, and brand teams, ensuring briefs reflect campaign objectives, audience/funnel stage, and channel specs
  • Review creative assets prior to trafficking for brand consistency, platform compliance (aspect ratio, duration, copy length, safe zones), and messaging accuracy
  • Coordinate creative testing programs across channels — structuring test matrices, tracking variant performance, and compiling learnings into actionable recommendations for creative and media teams
  • Collaborate with external agencies to ensure campaigns are launched accurately, monitored effectively, and optimized against performance goals
  • Help manage affiliate programs, including partner communication, offer tracking, and performance monitoring
  • Support creative testing initiatives by coordinating assets, tracking results, and identifying top-performing content (UGC, creator, branded)
  • Contribute to reporting by pulling data, maintaining dashboards, and assisting in weekly/monthly performance recaps

Requirements

  • 3-4 years of experience in paid media, digital marketing, or growth marketing (internships included)
  • Familiarity with paid social, paid search, or affiliate marketing (hands-on experience a plus)
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data in Excel/Google Sheets
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks
  • Eagerness to learn and grow in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
  • Interest in retail, fashion, or consumer brands preferred

Preferred

  • Interest in retail, fashion, or consumer brands preferred
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Steven Madden, Ltd. is globally recognized as a leading company in the fashion industry. What began as a modest $1100 investment in 1990 has developed into one of the most iconic brands in footwear. From a factory in Queens, NY, Steve Madden has revolutionized the shoe industry, merging years of experience with unique and creative designs. Inspired by rock and roll and his NY roots, Steve’s vision to provide on-trend women and men with an outlet to express their individuality is innovative, daring, and inspiring. Steve’s innate understanding of trends and unparalleled willpower have resulted in millions of customers worldwide and propelled his designs to the forefront of fashion. In addition to marketing products under its own brands including Steve Madden®, Kurt Geiger London®, Dolce Vita®, Betsey Johnson®, Carvela®, Blondo® and ATM®, Steve Madden licenses footwear, handbags and other accessory categories for the Anne Klein® brand. In addition, Steve Madden designs and sources products under private label brand names for various retailers. Steve Madden’s wholesale distribution includes department stores, mass merchants, off-price retailers, shoe chains, online retailers, national chains, specialty retailers and independent stores. Steve Madden also directly operates brick-and-mortar retail stores and e-commerce websites. In addition, Steve Madden licenses certain of its brands to third parties for the marketing and sale of certain products in the apparel, accessory, and home categories. With an emphasis on retail, wholesale, licensing and international business, there's a constant need for new ideas and versatility. Our environment is extremely fast paced and requires associates to maintain a balance of energy and professionalism. Steve Madden is about fashion-forward product and great people. Our employees are energized, intelligent and passionate about our business and committed to providing excellent customer service.

Founded in 1990
New York, New York, USA
3.2K employees (539 in marketing)
59% recommend to a friend
69% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$80K/yr – $90K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($85K) is 21% below the median base salary for Growth Marketing Manager roles in the United States ($108K).

Growth Marketing Manager median pay in the United States

$108K/yr

Most earn $90K to $120K. Based on 267 salaries, including bonus and equity.

See all Steve Madden salaries

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
231 (7% of company)
Median Tenure
4.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$50.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.7%
Direct
52.1%
Referral
3.7%
Social
5.5%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.2K

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Associate Manager, Growth Marketing

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