Head of Growth

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $230K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own growth from discovery to conversion across channels, building experiments, copy, and creator partnerships to scale SkillCat.

  • Lead organic growth across social, creators, and partnerships to reach millions.
  • Design and measure experiments to optimize funnels and growth metrics.
  • Nurture relationships with creators, journalists, and communities to drive earned attention.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Growth & Experimentation: Find new channels, audiences, partnerships, and growth opportunities. Launch quickly, learn, kill what isn’t working, and scale what is.
  • Social, Creators & Distribution: Build organic growth engines across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, creators, influencers, ambassadors, communities, partnerships, and emerging platforms. Develop ideas and programs capable of reaching millions of people without relying primarily on paid media.
  • Earned Attention: Find stories worth talking about. Build relationships with creators, journalists, communities, and partners, and create reasons for people to talk about SkillCat.
  • Analytics & Conversion: Understand what is driving growth, investigate dips and spikes, measure experiments, find friction in the funnel, and turn data into action.
  • SEO & AEO: Own the strategy for how SkillCat gets discovered across Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other search platforms. Identify opportunities, set priorities, and work closely with outside experts to execute.

Requirements

  • Have personally helped grow a consumer product, audience, community, or brand
  • Have run growth experiments across multiple channels, not just paid acquisition
  • Have built organic distribution through social, creators, influencers, UGC, ambassadors, communities, or partnerships
  • Understand what makes ideas and content spread across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms
  • Are highly analytical and comfortable digging into funnels, performance, and experiment results
  • Understand SEO and AEO well enough to identify opportunities, set priorities, and effectively manage outside experts
  • Move quickly and have a strong bias toward action
  • Are relentlessly curious about new channels, tools, trends, and growth opportunities
  • Are obsessed with understanding customers
  • Are resourceful and comfortable figuring things out yourself

SkillCat

We've helped hundreds of companies increase retention and build a consistent skillset across their organization.We've trained over 300,000 skilled trade workers through simulation-based app training, helping companies and employees reach new heights of success.

Founded in 2020
New York, New York, USA
71 employees (9 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$150K/yr – $230K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (8% of company)
Median Career Experience
11.5 years
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$3.4M
Last Raise
Seed, 4 years ago

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
124.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
56.5%
Direct
36.4%
Referral
4.7%
Social
2%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~72

Head of Growth

SkillCat · New York City, NY · Hybrid