Head of Growth

Oakland, CA (On-site)

$175K/yr – $225K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own growth across acquisition, activation, and retention for a premium consumer hardware launch with an AI first content and creator engine.

  • Growth ownership: end to end strategy, cross channel activation, and rigorous KPI tracking.
  • Content & creator ops: fast production across social, UGC, and video with contractors and partners.
  • Pre-launch audience and messaging: educate, build community, and pre-sell demand ahead of launch.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the growth strategy end to end. Define how we acquire, activate, and retain our primary and secondary customer profiles, then execute against it with urgency.
  • Protect and sharpen a distinctive, premium point of view across every touchpoint.
  • Build a fast, experimental content and creative operation spanning social, UGC, and original video — managing contractors and production partners.
  • Blend online and offline. Pair a strong social presence with offline moments including demos, activations, and experiences that make our customer feel something and want to share it.
  • Lead early qualitative and quantitative work to understand how our customer really feels about what we're building, so we can hone messaging tightly for launch.
  • Build an audience before launch. Explore how makeup and skincare content, education, and community can grow a loyal, engaged userbase ahead of our hardware launch so we ship to demand, not silence.
  • Grow a lean team over time and manage a flexible bench of contractors and creators, keeping quality high and the bar premium.
  • Create a team culture of relentless execution, experimentation, and curiosity (everything from trying new ad creative to trying new technology)
  • Be extremely data driven and be excellent at defining, setting, and reporting on full-funnel KPIs
  • Run weekly performance reviews: diagnose misses, identify what's working, and ship corrective action plans fast

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in growth marketing, with at least 2+ years managing people
  • Real consumer experience, ideally hardware. You've grown a consumer product and care about the physical-product journey.
  • Proficiency in the full-stack of marketing tools: You know what tools to use and how to use them—or you can figure it out quickly. You’re excited to try new tools to unlock more capabilities.
  • You've built or scaled a UGC or creator program for a consumer product.
  • Comfortable in Meta Ads Manager and/or TikTok Ads Manager.
  • You understand creative performance natively: hooks, retention curves, platform culture, format iteration for TikTok and IG.
  • You’re self-directed and don't wait to be told what to test next.
  • You are fast: you ship, learn, and iterate without overthinking it.
  • Must be AI pilled and able to bring AI deep into the workflow for content production, creative iteration, customer research, personalization, and ops to move faster and smarter than teams many times our size.
  • You've reached a premium, design-literate female customer before through brand, culture, or craft.
  • Additional item about collaboration or cross-functional alignment.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment with ambiguity.
  • Experience in hardware or consumer tech pre-launch dynamics.

Preferred

  • A genuine interest in makeup, skincare, beauty products, and its related subcultures.
  • You've taken a hardware or consumer-tech product through a pre-launch waitlist, pre-order, or crowdfunding moment and converted hype into demand.
  • You've grown an owned audience (newsletter, social following, community) from zero to a real, engaged base.
  • You've run offline as a growth channel: pop-ups, demos, dinners, or experiential activations that people filmed and shared.
  • You have a personal AI stack you actually use — for creative iteration, research, copy, or ops — and opinions about what's overhyped.
  • You can cut your own video or design your own assets well enough to ship a test without waiting on anyone.
  • You've worked at or around a startup pre-product, and you're comfortable with ambiguity, fast pivots, and a blank page.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salary & generous early-stage equity
  • Best-in-class medical, dental & vision insurance
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Flexible Time Off with 10 paid holidays
  • Commuter benefits
  • Office in downtown Oakland near 19th Street BART station
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Founded in 2024
Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
9 employees (3 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.7%
Direct
57.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (22% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Seed, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2024
    Seed