Director of Growth and Acquisition

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$196K/yr – $270K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize a multi-channel digital acquisition portfolio at Chime, balancing short-term growth with long-term capability building while leading a player-coach team, creating new growth motions, and aligning with cross-functional partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own performance across Chime's full digital acquisition portfolio (paid social, paid search, affiliate, YouTube, mobile/app networks, and emerging channels), delivering ambitious growth, efficiency, and CAC targets.
  • Make portfolio-level investment and prioritization calls across channels, talent, technology, and vendor partnerships, balancing near-term performance against long-term capability building.
  • Lead and develop a team of experienced channel managers as a true player-coach — close enough to the work to challenge assumptions and unblock hard problems, but focused on multiplying impact through people and systems.
  • Build new acquisition channels, partnerships, or technology-enabled growth motions — not just optimize the existing mix.
  • Stay plugged into the external digital ecosystem — platforms, agencies, AI/martech vendors, startups — to identify opportunities before they're obvious and bring new capability into Chime early.
  • Push the organization to rebuild how it works around AI: experimentation, creative production, media buying, and measurement — not just point-solution automation.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Media Planning/MMM, Growth Product Marketing, Analytics, Risk, and Finance to align channel strategy to company-level growth and CAC goals.
  • Represent Digital Acquisition in senior leadership forums, translating channel performance into business outcomes for Growth LT, EC, and Board-level audiences.

Requirements

  • Experience leading a multi-channel digital acquisition or growth organization with meaningful business accountability — not only channel-level metrics.
  • A demonstrated record of owning growth, efficiency, and business outcomes.
  • Experience managing a significant media portfolio and making prioritization tradeoffs across channels, technology, and vendors.
  • A leadership style that blends strategic range with hands-on credibility — comfortable operating as both strategist and player-coach.
  • Experience building or scaling teams and developing future leaders.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, cross-functional, senior-executive-visible environment.

Benefits

  • Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location.
  • Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
  • Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life.
  • Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
  • 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
  • Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
  • Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
  • Access to family planning reimbursement
  • A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress
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Chime

3.7 Glassdoor

Chime was created because we believe everyone can unlock financial progress, and we want to develop solutions and services to empower people to succeed. The premise upon which we started Chime is simple: basic banking services should be helpful, transparent, and easy. Our easy-to-use tools and intuitive platforms give members the ability to have more control over their money and to take action toward achieving their financial ambitions.By designing a member-centric banking app with easy-to-understand financial tools, we’re creating a more competitive market with options for everyday Americans. We offer access to accounts with no overdraft fees, provide members the chance to receive their pay up to 2 days early* with direct deposit, help them build credit history, and build financial literacy to hit their goals—among many other things.Since 2012, we’ve grown our team to more than 1300 Chimers across 3 offices. But more than that, we’ve expanded the products and services we offer to our members based on member feedback. And in doing so, we’ve disrupted the banking industry and changed the conversation for everyday people about money on a national level.Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC.*Early access to direct deposit funds depends on the timing of the submission of the payment file from the payer. We generally make these funds available on the day the payment file is received, which may be up to 2 days earlier than the scheduled payment date.

Founded in 2012
San Francisco, California, USA
2.3K employees (205 in marketing)
69% recommend to a friend
76% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$196K/yr – $270K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
142 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
19 years
Median Tenure
1.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$2.8B
Last Raise
$475M
Debt Financing, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2025
    Debt Financing • $475M
  • Jul 2023
    Secondary Market
  • Aug 2021
    Series G • $750M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
11.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.1M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.3%
Direct
66.8%
Referral
5.2%
Social
1%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.3K

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Director of Growth and Acquisition

Chime · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid