Director of Growth - Performance Marketing

Lombard, IL (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive6+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

The role leads performance marketing and growth initiatives, owning channels, measurement, attribution, and lifecycle programs. It requires P&L ownership, rigorous data practices, and a structured testing cadence, with a focus on scalable, repeatable playbooks and cross-functional collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Performance marketing ownership - Own day-to-day execution across paid channels, creative, site conversion, and email. Manage the operational marketing budget (media and tools/vendors) to optimize CAC vs. LTV.
  • Growth P&L & reporting - Deliver a Monthly Growth Package including channel-level P&L, blended ROAS, CAC, LTV:CAC, and funnel metrics, with a concise written summary for the CEO. Maintain an auditable operational P&L.
  • Measurement & data - Build and maintain a single source of truth for acquisition and customer value. Own UTMs, event tracking, GA4/server-side setup, and data warehouse integration (BigQuery or equivalent).
  • Attribution & incrementality - Implement practical attribution and incrementality testing (holdouts, geo/cohort tests, or equivalent) so budget decisions reflect incremental lift and profit.
  • Experimentation & optimization - Run a disciplined testing program across creative, audiences, bidding, landing pages, and email. Turn results into repeatable playbooks.
  • Creative performance systems - Operationalize creative testing and creative-to-scale workflows that increase the rate of scalable winners and reduce cycle time.
  • Lifecycle & retention - Own or lead email and lifecycle execution (onboarding, reactivation, retention) and partner cross-functionally to improve repeat purchase and LTV.
  • Team & operating cadence - Hire and manage a flexible team of internal and contract talent. Establish clear ownership, success metrics, and weekly/monthly operating rhythms.

Requirements

  • 6 to 10+ years in performance marketing or growth with ownership of profitable customer acquisition.
  • Prior ownership of a growth or acquisition P&L.
  • Experience across paid social, paid search, affiliates, and other scalable performance channels.
  • Strong measurement and analytics experience (UTMs, GA4/server-side tracking, data warehouse integration).
  • Experience driving CRO through site and landing-page experimentation.
  • Experience building and leading high-output teams and external partners.

Preferred

  • Bonus: experience working in fishing or outdoors markets, and experience marketing consumer subscriptions.
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Catch Co.

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What is Catch Co?At Catch Co, our purpose is to rescue humanity from the indoors by connecting them with America’s top outdoor sport: fishing. More than 50 million Americans fish every year and Catch Co is the industry leader in creating products, content, and experiences that modern anglers love. Most importantly, we aim to be the industry’s most data-driven and customer-centric company.We are building 3 unique businesses to deliver on that mission:- Mystery Tackle Box - Founded in 2012, MTB is the most popular fishing subscription service in the world, with over 5 million boxes shipped (and counting!).- Karl’s Bait and Tackle - Launched in 2018, Karl’s is a unique and exciting ecommerce experience that brings the local tackle shop to the Internet.- Catch Co. fishing products - Catch Co also designs and develops some of fishing’s most popular and innovative brands and products, sold online and in retail throughout the world.To support these businesses, we have built a best-in-class foundation of creativity, technology, data, and a fun and supportive culture. We have also built durable partnerships with some of the industry’s most impactful content creators, influencers, product designers, and more. As we execute against our mission, our team members remain curious, action-oriented, and collaborative. If that sounds like you, we would love to meet you.

Founded in 2012
Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 employees (5 in marketing)
59% recommend to a friend
71% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.3%
Direct
52.6%
Referral
5.7%
Social
10.4%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~29

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (14% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$54.1M
Last Raise
$38M
Series Unknown, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2022
    Series Unknown
  • Feb 2022
    Series Unknown
  • Apr 2021
    Series B • $38M