Head of Growth Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$200K/yr – $250K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own weekly signup pacing and growth across core acquisition channels and build a durable, multi-channel signup mix; oversee cross-channel planning, weekly performance reviews, and fast corrective actions, while partnering with product and engineering on activation and onboarding to keep the growth engine moving.

  • Own the growth number across channels
  • Lead cross-channel planning and execution with channel owners
  • Collaborate directly with founders to push back and own outcomes

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own weekly signup pacing and growth across core acquisition channels — you're accountable to the number, not just the strategy
  • Build a defensible signup mix across SEO/GEO, partnerships, brand, and other durable channels that compound over time
  • Run cross-channel planning, prioritization, and execution — including managing channel owners across content, PMM, partnerships, brand, and distribution
  • Run weekly performance reviews: diagnose misses, identify what's working, and ship corrective action plans fast
  • Partner with product and engineering on activation, onboarding, and growth constraints that live outside marketing's direct control
  • Keep Eric focused on strategy and major bets — not on stitching the whole machine together week to week

Requirements

  • A true operator, not a strategist. You've owned a growth number before — not advised on one. You know the difference between a channel that's underperforming and a channel that needs to be killed, and you make that call without waiting for someone else to tell you.
  • Experienced running growth for a technical or developer-facing product. You understand how developers discover tools, evaluate them, and decide to actually use them. You've built growth systems for an audience that hates being marketed to.
  • Strong management instincts. You can run a team with a mix of channel specialists, create cadence, drive accountability, and keep everyone moving in the same direction — without needing perfect information to do it.
  • Fluent in modern distribution. SEO/GEO, content, product launches, AI-native discovery — you have real operational depth across multiple channels, not just talking points.
  • Good messaging taste. You're not a pure brand specialist, but you know what good looks like. You can maintain a high bar across everything that goes out without being the bottleneck.
  • Comfortable working directly with founders. No committee. No approval layers. You'll have a direct line to Eric and be expected to push back, make calls, and own the outcome.

Preferred

  • Backgrounds that often do well: head of growth or marketing at a developer tools or API-first company, early marketing leader at a PLG SaaS startup, founder-marketer who built a growth engine from scratch.

Benefits

  • Available to all employees
  • Salary that makes sense — $200,000–$250,000/year (SF, U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure
  • Own a piece — Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build
  • Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge
  • Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents
  • Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
  • Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
  • Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
  • Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new
  • Available to US-based full-time employees
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Founded in 2022
San Francisco, California, USA
4 employees

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.1%
Direct
49.2%
Referral
7.1%
Social
8.5%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4

Marketing Team

Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$500K
Last Raise
$500K
Pre Seed, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2022
    Pre Seed • $500K