Head of Growth Marketing, Self-Service

USA (Remote)

$160K/yr – $304K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end growth engine across paid, lifecycle, and cross-functional initiatives, leading a distributed team to drive trial starts, activation, and payback metrics.

  • Lead multi-channel paid acquisition and lifecycle programs
  • Build and mentor a high-performing growth team
  • Align Activation, onboarding, and product-focused experiences across Marketing, Product, Web, and Docs

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Team Leadership
  • Set the annual and quarterly growth plan and report performance against trial-start and conversion targets
  • Build, scale, and lead a distributed team of growth marketers
  • Coach and develop the team, and set a high bar for craft, rigor, and experimentation velocity
  • Paid Acquisition
  • Own paid search, paid social, display/retargeting, and emerging paid channels, managing spend against CAC and payback targets
  • Manage external agencies against clear performance targets and hold them accountable for results
  • Continuously test creative, audiences, landing pages, and bidding strategies to improve conversion and efficiency
  • Lifecycle Marketing
  • Own email, nurture, and in-product messaging programs that improve activation and trial-to-paid conversion

Requirements

  • 10+ years of growth marketing experience at B2B enterprise SaaS companies, with 3+ years building and leading teams
  • Direct experience in a product-led growth (PLG) motion alongside an enterprise sales motion (e.g., Datadog, MongoDB, Atlassian, Confluent)
  • Proven track record of hitting acquisition targets and managing meaningful paid budgets against CAC and payback goals
  • Experience building teams from the ground up and managing external agencies to performance
  • Strong analytical skills: fluent in funnel metrics, comfortable working with dashboards and data teams; SQL or product analytics experience (Amplitude or similar) is a plus
  • Strong creative instincts across messaging, landing pages, and campaign concepts
  • Comfort marketing to developer and technical practitioner audiences
  • Bias for action and comfort with ambiguity — energized by building programs and systems that don't exist yet
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, from executive presentations to channel-level detail

Preferred

  • SQL or product analytics experience (Amplitude or similar) is a plus

Benefits

  • Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
  • Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
  • Generous number of vacation days each year
  • Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
  • Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
  • Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Founded in 2012
San Francisco, California, USA
4.8K employees (453 in marketing)
70% recommend to a friend
71% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$160K/yr – $304K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$162M
Last Raise
$58M
Secondary Market, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2018
    Secondary Market
  • Jul 2016
    Series D • $58M
  • Jun 2014
    Series C • $70M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$388.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
50.9%
Direct
39.2%
Referral
7.1%
Social
1.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.8K

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