Growth Marketing Specialist

New York City, NY (On-site)

$70K/yr – $90K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 15 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end card marketing launches for merchant partners, coordinating campaigns, asset creation, testing, analytics, and ongoing optimization across channels with internal teams.

  • Lead launch campaigns, develop assets, and optimize channel performance.
  • Analyze funnels, run tests, and collaborate with product and partners to improve conversions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Help merchants launch and promote their cards
  • Schedule and coordinate training for merchants going live, prepare marketing assets, and track launch tasks and deadlines.
  • Create and adapt merchant marketing materials; follow up to ensure assets are deployed across websites, social media, mobile apps, and other shopper touchpoints.
  • Coordinate signage production, proof artwork and specifications, and ensure materials are accurate and delivered on schedule.
  • Share campaign results and practical recommendations with merchants, keeping them engaged in ongoing card marketing.
  • Set up launch email blasts and maintain a calendar of future campaigns for new and existing merchants, including audience selection, copy, creative, links, testing, and scheduling.
  • Launch and test SMS, push notifications, paid search, and display advertising; research and pilot additional marketing channels.
  • Implement referral campaigns and coordinate prescreen offer campaigns through email and direct mail with the appropriate internal teams and partners.
  • Test messages, creative, offers, and calls to action to learn what drives completed applications and new cardholders.
  • Implement lifecycle emails for onboarding, activation, first purchase, and ongoing usage; measure results and continually test and refine the campaigns.

Requirements

  • Approximately 2-4 years of experience executing digital, growth, lifecycle, performance, or consumer marketing. Strong candidates with less experience and clear evidence of results are encouraged to apply.
  • Experience personally building and launching campaigns in at least one channel, such as email, paid media, SMS, or lifecycle marketing. You can explain your contribution, what you measured, and what you improved.
  • Strong writing skills and an eye for clear, effective creative; comfort adapting templates and making straightforward assets in tools such as Canva or similar software.
  • Comfort working with spreadsheets, campaign metrics, and web analytics. You can spot a performance issue, form a hypothesis, and propose a practical test.
  • Excellent organization, attention to detail, and follow-through across multiple campaigns and merchant deadlines; confidence communicating with external partners.
  • Initiative, openness to feedback, and the ability to learn unfamiliar tools and products quickly. A bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with Google Analytics, UTM tracking, email automation, or A/B testing is helpful. Backgrounds in ecommerce, retail, loyalty, agencies, startups, and other consumer businesses are welcome. You do not need experience in every channel listed above.

Preferred

  • Backgrounds in ecommerce, retail, loyalty, agencies, startups, and other consumer businesses are welcome.

Benefits

  • Direct access to the Chief Growth Officer, professional development, and the opportunity to build practical growth marketing skills in an expanding card program.
  • Benefits include competitive salary and incentives, stock options, flexible working arrangements, health, dental and vision coverage, life insurance, a 401(k) plan, vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, FSA and HSA options, and commuter benefits.
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AppCard, Inc.

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Founded in 2011 by the team behind ICQ, Dotomi and Jajah—and backed by Peter Thiel, (via Founders Fund), Eric Schmidt (via Innovation endeavors) and Jerry Yang, AppCard disrupts traditional retail sales with its global platform for data-driven marketing. We analyze, target, and engage your customers to increase their lifetime value.The AppCard Dashboard offers brick and mortar businesses greater insight into the health of their business than ever before. AppCard’s patented technology captures 100% of item-level transaction data, in real time, and works with any POS system. AppCard delivers actionable insight to business owners via the AppCard Dashboard, where users have access to over 100 reports detailing transactions and product sales across locations. By adding an AppCard Rewards Program, business owners are able to also capture customer identities and associate them with item-level transaction data. Combining customer identities with real-time transaction data allows business owners to truly know their customers, and to provide a personalized, customer-centric experience. AppCard’s data-driven marketing campaigns automatically deliver the right message, to the right customer, at the right time, via SMS, email, or in-app push notifications.

Founded in 2011
New York, New York, USA
124 employees (4 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$70K/yr – $90K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($80K) is 8% above the median base salary for Growth Marketing Specialist roles in the United States ($74K).

Growth Marketing Specialist median pay in the United States

$74K/yr

Most pay falls between $69K and $85K. Based on 59 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (3% of company)
Median Tenure
2.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$26.5M
Last Raise
$20M
Series B

Funding History

  • Feb 2016
    Series B • $20M
  • Jan 2013
    Series A • $6.5M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
928.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
4.3%
Direct
42.7%
Referral
27.3%
Social
1.7%
Paid
4.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~124
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Growth Marketing Specialist

AppCard, Inc. · New York City, NY · On-site