Director of Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

$95K/yr – $105K/yrDirector/Executive9+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive multi-channel growth and category creation for Empower Work by leading acquisition, activation, and messaging.

  • Must-have: 9–10+ years of multi-channel growth with an experimentation mindset
  • Standout: Experience building category creation in high-trust nonprofit contexts

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Net-New User Growth (Primary KPI) – Own the growth plan and execution to increase net-new users/help seekers served month-over-month
  • Build and manage a measurable acquisition + activation model (channel targets, conversion assumptions, customer satisfaction)
  • Create a weekly operating cadence (dashboard, insights, priorities, experiments, decisions)
  • Category Creation Marketing – Actualize the refined brand positioning to build adoption of a service many people don’t yet know exists, helping workers recognize their situation as legitimate, nameable, and worthy of support
  • Develop messaging, campaigns, and content that reach people before they think to search, and make Empower Work feel immediately relevant and safe
  • Ensure positioning, tone, and narrative consistency across channels
  • Multi-Channel Acquisition + Lifecycle Execution – Own day-to-day execution and optimization across a practical 2026 channel mix, including website + conversion optimization, SEO, Email/lifecycle journeys, Social content/campaigns, Paid experiments, Emerging channels/tools
  • Partnerships, Referrals, and Community-Led Growth – Support in our efforts to build and scale partner referral pathways with organizations workers already trust
  • Create partner enablement toolkits and lightweight co-marketing motions that drive measurable referral volume
  • Collaborate with Partnerships Lead to support partner marketing as a secondary growth lever

Requirements

  • 9-10+ years of relevant marketing experience, with hands-on ownership of multi-channel growth execution
  • Demonstrated ability to drive specific growth KPIs (acquisition, activation, conversion, retention) with an experimentation mindset
  • Experience marketing “invisible” services and/or category creation, especially in high trust contexts (e.g., crisis support, worker rights, healthcare-adjacent services)
  • Strong analytical orientation: you can instrument funnels, interpret data, and make tradeoffs
  • Excellent writing / editing skills; you can produce crisp messaging and campaign copy quickly
  • Prior experience managing at least one direct report and/or leading junior contributors/contractors

Nice to have

  • Experience in scalable technology-based nonprofits or socially conscious products
  • Experience with category creation
  • Experience managing teams and contractors
  • Experience working in nonprofit or mission-driven environments

Benefits

  • 12ish paid holidays
  • Unlimited paid vacation
  • Paid sick time
  • Paid family and medical leave
  • QSEHRA healthcare reimbursement
  • 401K through Betterment
  • workspace stipend
  • professional development funds
  • This position is exempt.
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Empower Work

Empower Work is a national nonprofit on a mission to create healthy, equitable workplaces where employees are valued, supported, and empowered.We provide support for challenging work situations through trained peer counselors, accessible via web chat or text.Our goal is to help people navigate tricky work questions or tough work problems and come to an outcome they feel comfortable with.

San Francisco, California, USA
32 employees (2 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
40.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$102.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.3%
Direct
48.3%
Referral
6%
Social
7.2%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~32

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (6% of company)