Sr. Operations Manager, Growth

Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)

$160K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive growth operations and paid acquisition strategy for sourcing expert contributors across domains, with cross-functional alignment and data-driven optimization.

  • Own end-to-end paid acquisition strategy across LinkedIn and other channels.
  • Must-have: 5+ years managing paid campaigns at scale (LinkedIn, job boards).
  • Standout: builds and uses a growth dashboard with CAC, activation, and domain-match metrics.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the end-to-end paid acquisition strategy for sourcing expert contributors across specialized domains
  • Manage ad channel strategy across LinkedIn and other paid channels — including ad deployment, budget allocation, audience targeting, and creative iteration
  • Work with engineering and analytics to ensure that we have proper data attribution across all channels and campaigns, while driving deeper understanding around organic traffic
  • Align with associates and coordinate with cross-functional partners to ensure rapid deployment and updates to campaigns
  • Shift our operating model from reactive to proactive: develop clear growth signals from sales pipeline data, translating confirmed demand and unconfirmed opportunities into actionable sourcing targets by domain
  • Design and own the growth operations dashboard in partnership with Analytics, covering marketing-layer metrics (impressions, clicks, cost per sign-up) and platform-layer metrics (activation rate, CAC, domain match rate)
  • Manage weekly campaign performance reporting: flag underperforming campaigns, recommend budget reallocation, and surface spend efficiency trends to leadership

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in growth operations, performance marketing, demand generation, or related roles in high-growth or operationally complex environments
  • Proven experience managing paid acquisition campaigns at scale — ideally across LinkedIn, job boards, or talent/marketplace platforms
  • Experience building demand forecasting models, including scenario-based planning (conservative/base/aggressive)
  • Strong analytical skills using SQL
  • Track record of managing or coordinating cross-functional teams to execute campaign operations at speed
  • Prior experience with operations-heavy business models such as marketplaces, on-demand services, staffing, or workforce platforms
  • Ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problem spaces — comfortable building processes from scratch in imperfect systems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting spend efficiency and growth metrics to senior stakeholders
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with high ownership, strong prioritization skills, and a bias toward action

Benefits

  • Snorkel also includes benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
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Snorkel AI is building the data layer for specialized AI, enabling frontier labs, enterprises, and government agencies to develop AI tailored to their unique workloads. Born from pioneering research at the Stanford AI Lab, Snorkel combines cutting-edge programmatic data development technology with deep domain expertise to accelerate AI from prototype to production.Backed by Addition, Greylock, GV, In-Q-Tel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Snorkel AI is headquartered in Redwood City, California.Learn more at snorkel.ai or follow @SnorkelAI.

Founded in 2019
Redwood City, California, USA
784 employees (287 in marketing)
92% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
91.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$74
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.6%
Direct
43.1%
Referral
7.3%
Social
4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~789

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
279 (36% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$235.3M
Last Raise
$100M
Series Unknown, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Series Unknown
  • May 2025
    Series D • $100M
  • Jan 2024
    Series Unknown

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