Sr. Manager, Growth & Creative Strategy

Santa Monica, CA (On-site)

$95K/yr – $115K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid media growth strategy and cross‑channel campaigns with data‑driven spend, creative leadership, and brand‑aligned performance.

  • Must-have: 6–8+ years in digital or growth marketing
  • Standout: Familiarity with LA culture landscape
  • Proven success running performance campaigns across major platforms

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Determine campaign growth strategy, audience targeting, and channel mix based on performance data and organizational priorities
  • Identify and prioritize growth opportunities across platforms, partnerships, and emerging channels
  • Exercise discretion over allocation of paid media budgets across channels, audiences, and campaigns
  • Make data-driven decisions that directly impact marketing spend efficiency and return on investment
  • Manage paid media budgets and optimize spend across campaigns and audiences
  • Lead creative ad strategy and oversee a team producing high-volume, performance-driven campaign assets
  • Using established brand guidelines, set direction for campaigns, balancing brand expression with performance
  • Oversee the planning, execution, and optimization of campaigns across platforms (Meta, Google, YT, etc.), ensuring alignment with growth strategy and performance goals
  • Analyze performance data to identify insights, opportunities, and new experiments
  • Identify growth opportunities through partnerships, influencers, and content creators

Requirements

  • 6–8+ years of experience in digital or growth marketing
  • Experience managing and developing creative or marketing teams
  • Proven success running performance campaigns across major platforms
  • Strong creative instincts across messaging, storytelling, and design
  • Experience developing campaigns from concept through execution
  • Familiarity with AI tools in marketing workflows
  • Data-driven mindset with the ability to translate insights into action
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Understanding of Los Angeles’ cultural landscape
  • Strong organizational and leadership capabilities

Benefits

  • Sick leave award
  • Vacation leave accrual
  • Paid holidays
  • Health insurance (including medical, dental, vision, FSA, life, and AD&D) eligibility
  • 403(b) with company match
  • Passionate office environment surrounded by an incredible community of curious and talented colleagues
  • KCRW is a qualifying employer under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program - read more here to determine your eligibility
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KCRW Inc

KCRW 89.9FM, licensed to Santa Monica College, is National Public Radio's flagship station for Southern California. The Santa Monica-based nonprofit represents cutting edge radio at its best, presenting an eclectic mix of independent music, news, talk and arts programming. The terrestrial signal serves Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura Counties, as well as parts of San Diego, San Bernardino, Kern, and Santa Barbara Counties and the greater Palm Springs area. KCRW’s programming is internationally renowned and available worldwide via KCRW.com, including three streaming channels, 27 podcasts and archives of our locally-produced programs and live band performances. Hear KCRW music online, all the time, on the ALL music stream Eclectic24.

Founded in 1945
Santa Monica, California, USA
223 employees (126 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
724.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.2%
Direct
61.5%
Referral
3.5%
Social
1.5%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~223

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
62 (28% of company)

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