Growth Marketing Manager, SMB Ads

San Francisco, CA (Unknown)

$177K/yr – $196K/yrSenior Level4+ years exp

Posted 4 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and run end‑to‑end growth experiments across acquisition, activation, lifecycle, and early retention, turning ideas into executable tests and measurable learnings through cross‑functional collaboration.

  • Own the design and execution of tests across channels (email, in‑product, landing pages) to drive SMB advertiser value.
  • Lead collaboration with Growth, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Marketing Ops to ship experiments and derive insights.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Execute growth experiments across acquisition, activation, lifecycle, and early retention.
  • Build email, in-product, landing page, audience, messaging, and offer tests that help SMB advertisers reach first spend and repeat value.
  • Use AI tools to prototype marketing assets, automate workflows, analyze funnel data, generate creative variations, and build internal growth systems.
  • Partner with Growth, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Marketing Operations to turn strategy into shipped experiments and measurable learnings.
  • Support improvements to sign-up, onboarding, campaign creation, measurement, and advertiser education.
  • Maintain experiment documentationance readouts.
  • Translate ambiguous growth ideas into concrete tests, campaign plans, launchable assets, and clear next steps.
  • Help identify new ways to convert, activate, retain, and grow SMB advertisers.

Requirements

  • Have 4-7 years of experience in growth marketingance marketing.
  • Have shipped campaigns, experiments, automations, landing page tests, lifecycle programs, or conversion initiatives.
  • Are comfortable working across ambiguousation.
  • Can interpret funnel metricsance, experiment results, and customer behavior signals.
  • Are fluent with AI tools and use them to accelerate marketing execution, workflow automation, analysis, personalization, prototyping, or internal tooling.
  • Have strong writing and customer judgement, especially for translating product value into clear SMB-facing messaging.
  • Enjoy working across Marketing, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations.
  • Have experience with SMB growth, self-serve funnels, advertiser growth, PLG SaaS, marketplaces, commerce, fintech, local services, creator tools, or other high-volume customer funnels.
  • Have experience with lifecycle marketing, CRM, segmentation, activation, onboarding, winback, or retention programs.
  • Have familiarity with ads productss such as Google Ads, Meta Ads, TikTok for Business, Amazon Ads,, Reddit, Snap or similar.
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Salaries

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$177K/yr – $196K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$189B
Last Raise
$110B
Corporate Round, 17 days ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Corporate Round • $110B
  • Dec 2025
    Corporate Round • $1B
  • Oct 2025
    Secondary Market • $6.6B

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
266.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.5%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
9.4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9.9K

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