Director of Growth Marketing

Boston, MA (On-site)

$119K/yr – $150K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and scale paid growth programs across search and social to drive new orders, while delivering clear budgeting, funnel optimization, and leadership-ready reporting.

  • Lead Google search and paid social campaigns across Meta, YouTube, and TikTok.
  • Own budget management, funnel optimization, and performance storytelling for leadership.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own Google search campaigns: brand, non-brand, and seasonal moments.
  • Optimize bids, keywords, and ad copy to grow traffic at a reasonable cost per thousand impressions, cost per click, and cost per order.
  • Run paid campaigns on Meta (Facebook and Instagram), YouTube, and TikTok to drive traffic and new orders.
  • Test audiences, creative, and offers; brief the creative team on what to make and scale what works.
  • Map and improve the new-customer path, from ad to landing page to order form.
  • Match traffic to the right landing pages and offers, and run A/B tests to raise conversion.
  • Work with our web and forms partners, who build and change the pages, on what to fix and test next.
  • Manage the paid media budget and shift spend toward the channels with the best return.
  • Own reporting on spend, traffic, conversion, and cost per order, and share results clearly with leadership.

Requirements

  • 7+ years in performance or growth marketing, including at least 2 years leading programs or people.
  • A proven record of scaling paid search traffic at an efficient cost.
  • Hands-on experience running paid social on Meta, YouTube, and TikTok.
  • Experience optimizing new-customer funnels, from landing page through order form, with A/B testing.
  • Experience managing a paid media budget against cost-per-order and return-on-spend targets.
  • Hands-on fluency with GA4, Google Ads, and Meta Ads Manager, and the ability to pull and explain data yourself.
  • Clear, concise communication with senior leadership.

Preferred

  • Experience at a paywalled or subscription website, not only free, ad-supported content.
  • Experience building co-marketing or distribution partnerships between brands.
  • A background in food, cooking, or lifestyle media.

Benefits

  • PTO, health, and dental insurance.
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Christopher Kimball's Milk Street

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street in downtown Boston — at 177 Milk Street — is home to our magazine’s editorial offices and our cooking school. It also is where we record Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street television and radio shows. Milk Street is changing how we cook by searching the world for bold, simple recipes and techniques. Adapted and tested for home cooks everywhere, these lessons are the backbone of what we call the new home cooking.

Founded in 2016
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
46 employees (23 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$119K/yr – $150K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($135K) is 25% below the median base salary for Growth Marketing Director roles in the United States ($180K).

Growth Marketing Director median pay in the United States

$188K/yr

Most pay falls between $161K and $200K. Based on 27 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (37% of company)
Median Tenure
6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
600.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$896
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.8%
Direct
57.3%
Referral
4.4%
Social
6.5%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~47
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Director of Growth Marketing

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