Manager, National & SME Growth

District of Columbia, USA (Remote)

$95K/yr – $120K/yrManager6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end audience growth for Axios’s national newsletter, integrating paid, owned, and earned channels with cross-functional collaboration to optimize CAC, expansion, and activation through data-driven experiments.

  • Growth Analytics: monitor audience composition, performance, and funnel efficiency to guide scale decisions.
  • Channel & Campaign Ownership: lead paid acquisition across Meta/Google/LinkedIn and diversify from top channels.
  • Experimentation & Partnerships: run tests on audience-product fit and collaborate with Editorial, Product, and Lifecycle teams to improve onboarding and retention.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own subscriber growth targets across Axios’s national newsletter portfolio
  • Execute acquisition strategies across paid, owned, and earned channels
  • Monitor audience composition, growth performance, and acquisition efficiency
  • Contribute insights and recommendations to weekly growth reporting
  • Lead paid acquisition strategy across Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms
  • Drive diversification away from concentrated acquisition channels
  • Establish and optimize CAC and conversion benchmarks by audience segment
  • Partner with Creative on campaign messaging and assets
  • Build and validate a new SME audience acquisition model
  • Run experiments around audience-product fit and conversion economics

Requirements

  • 6+ years in growth marketing, audience acquisition, subscription, or lifecycle marketing
  • Proven experience growing subscription, membership, or first-party audience businesses
  • Deep paid media expertise across Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and emerging channels
  • Strong analytical skills across CAC, LTV, attribution, and funnel optimization
  • Experience with modern martech and analytics tools (Braze, Segment, Sigma, Piano, etc.)
  • Experience launching or scaling new growth initiatives or audience programs
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We are a new media company delivering vital, trustworthy news and analysis in the most efficient, illuminating and shareable ways possible. We offer a mix of original and smartly narrated coverage of media trends, tech, business and politics with expertise, voice AND smart brevity — on a new and innovative mobile platform. At Axios — the Greek word for worthy — we provide only content worthy of people's time, attention and trust. Careers: https://www.axios.com/careers

Founded in 2017
Arlington, Virginia, USA
625 employees (267 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
76% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
36M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$141.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.8%
Direct
43.7%
Referral
11.1%
Social
5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~625

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
243 (39% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$102M
Last Raise
$45M
Grant, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2024
    Grant • $45M
  • Nov 2021
    Series D
  • Dec 2019
    Series C • $27M

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