Senior Growth Marketing Manager, Franchises

Nashville, TN (Hybrid)

$127K/yr – $172K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the full franchise growth engine from signing new franchisors to expanding across existing networks, combining paid, partnerships, events, content, lifecycle, and field plays to hit a clear pipeline forecast.

  • Franchise pipeline ownership: forecast, defend, and drive end-to-end funnel from sign to won.
  • Integrated campaigns: design plays that fuse paid media, content, events, partnerships, and lifecycle for a closed audience.
  • Cross-functional motion and ops: align with Sales, CS, and PMM, surface operator stories, and run franchise-specific marketing ops with attribution.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Net new franchise acquisition. Sign new franchise networks to Pilot. Build the integrated programs across paid, partnerships, events, content, and outbound that bring franchisor decision-makers into our pipeline. Own the number.
  • Adoption expansion within signed franchises. Once a franchise network signs, drive adoption across their franchisees. This is a different motion: smaller audiences, deeper personalization, longer relationships. You'll partner with our Sales and Customer teams to convert known franchisee universes into Pilot customers, network by network.
  • Own the franchise marketing pipeline number, end to end. Build the forecast, hit the forecast, defend the forecast.
  • Develop a deep working understanding of franchise economics, franchisor and franchisee psychology, and the unique accounting needs of multi-unit operators.
  • Design and run integrated campaigns that combine paid media, content, partnerships, events, lifecycle, and field marketing into coherent plays. Every channel earns its keep against the pipeline number.
  • Build expansion plays that activate franchisee bases inside signed networks. Think of this as a hybrid of demand generation and lifecycle marketing inside a closed audience.
  • Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Product Marketing to align messaging, build co-sell motions with franchisors, and surface customer stories from real operators.
  • Own the marketing operations layer for franchise: program structure, attribution, funnel reporting, and the systems work that makes integrated campaigns measurable.
  • Make creative bets. We are not interested in generic B2B tactics. We are interested in ideas that work because you understand this audience better than anyone else. Some will work, some won't. Bring conviction and the math to back it up.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of B2B marketing experience, with demonstrated commercial accountability for campaign performance. You've carried a pipeline target, hit it, and can talk through the math.
  • Experience marketing to franchise, multi-location, or distributed operator audiences.
  • Track record of building and running integrated campaigns across multiple channels. You know how to make paid, content, events, and partnerships work as one play, not five disconnected ones.
  • Strong marketing operations chops. Marketo proficiency required: program structure, smart campaigns, tokens, lead scoring. You can configure your own programs and read your own funnel.
  • A portfolio of campaign ideas you can point to where you went first, including at least one that didn't work and what you learned.
  • Comfortable with audience psychology as a primary input to creative. You think about your buyer as a human with motivations, not a segment with attributes.
  • Strong commercial instincts. You think in pipeline math: traffic to MQL to SQL to Won, cost per stage, ASP, payback. You can build a forecast and you can defend it.
  • Direct, low-ego collaboration style. You partner cleanly with Sales, take feedback well, and give it directly.
  • Bonus points for: Experience with partner-led GTM motions, channel marketing, or co-selling with platform partners.

Preferred

  • Bonus points for: Experience with partner-led GTM motions, channel marketing, or co-selling with platform partners.

Benefits

  • We invest in our employees’ development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers
  • The opportunity to join a seasoned founding team that has led companies through two prior successful startups and acquisitions (by Oracle and Dropbox).
  • Flexible vacation/time-off policy
  • All federal holidays are observed
  • Competitive benefits package including additional wellness benefits
  • Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents – 100% pay for 12 weeks
  • 401(k) plan
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Pilot provides the most reliable accounting, CFO, and tax services for startups and small businesses. We partner with thousands of companies to help them grow sustainably and operate more effectively.

Founded in 2016
San Francisco, California, USA
418 employees (21 in marketing)
63% recommend to a friend
69% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
49.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$858.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.1%
Direct
48.1%
Referral
6.9%
Social
2.7%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~422

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
12.5 years
Median Tenure
1.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$172.1M
Last Raise
$110.5M
Series Unknown, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2022
    Series Unknown
  • Jun 2021
    Secondary Market
  • Jan 2021
    Series C • $110.5M

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