Growth Manager/Senior Manager

New York City, NY (On-site)

$150K/yr – $175K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize the marketing budget and investment strategy across channels, balancing short-term performance with long-term brand growth while partnering with Finance and leadership to drive measurable results.

  • Lead budgeting, investment plans, and performance evaluation across channels
  • Translate data and insights into actionable creative and campaign directions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the marketing budget end-to-end, allocating investment across channels, campaigns, and initiatives to maximize brand and business impact
  • Develop and manage marketing investment plans, tracking spend against budget and continuously optimizing resource allocation based on performance
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of marketing investments across brand building, customer acquisition, creative production, partnerships, and retail activation
  • Balance short-term performance objectives with long-term brand development, making informed tradeoffs between immediate returns and sustained growth
  • Partner with Finance and leadership to assess marketing performance, evaluate investment opportunities, and make the case for incremental spend
  • Leverage performance data, consumer insights, and competitive intelligence to inform budget decisions and identify opportunities for growth
  • Establish clear accountability for marketing spend, ensuring investments are connected to defined objectives and measurable outcomes
  • Shape creative strategy across paid advertising, organic social, influencer content, brand campaigns, and product launches, ensuring creative direction supports both brand positioning and performance objectives
  • Develop creative testing frameworks to evaluate messaging, hooks, formats, and storytelling approaches across channels
  • Analyze creative and campaign performance to identify winning concepts, consumer insights, and opportunities to improve effectiveness

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in a high-performing environment, such as top-tier management consulting, investment banking, or marketing at a high-growth consumer business
  • Proven experience managing significant marketing budgets and allocating investment across multiple channels to drive measurable business outcomes
  • Strong understanding of both brand and performance marketing, with the ability to balance long-term brand building with short-term growth objectives
  • Deep analytical skills and financial acumen, with experience evaluating marketing effectiveness, measuring ROI, and translating data into actionable decisions
  • Strong creative instincts and demonstrated ability to develop compelling campaigns, evaluate creative performance, and translate consumer insights into effective marketing strategies
  • Experience across paid media, organic social, influencer marketing, partnerships, and other consumer-facing marketing channels
  • Familiarity with key marketing metrics, including CAC, ROAS, attribution, incrementality, and customer engagement
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives, prioritize effectively, and execute at a high level in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively alongside leadership, Finance, creative teams, and external partners
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong sense of ownership, intellectual curiosity, and willingness to be hands-on in building and scaling an emerging consumer brand

Benefits

  • This is a full-time, in-office role based in New York City. We work onsite five days a week- when the culture fits, it is fun to be in the office together.
  • Salary: $150,000-$175,000 per year, inclusive of bonus.
  • Company equity options.
  • 100% covered Health, Vision, Dental Insurance
  • 401(k) with 4% match
  • Additional perks, such as covered gym expenses
  • Substantial and required PTO
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David

David creates tools to increase muscle and decrease fat. Our first product is a protein bar. More broadly, David is a platform to develop high-protein, low-calorie, blood-sugar-friendly foods that are craveable.

Founded in 2023
194 employees (22 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$150K/yr – $175K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Growth Marketing median pay in the United States

$120K/yr

Most pay falls between $90K and $170K. Based on 2,796 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (9% of company)
Median Tenure
1.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$85M
Last Raise
$75M
Series A, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Series A • $75M
  • Aug 2024
    Seed • $10M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
252.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$518
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.1%
Direct
47.4%
Referral
4.7%
Social
6%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~198
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Growth Manager/Senior Manager

David · New York City, NY · On-site