Senior Growth Marketing Manager

*hiring on behalf of our client

Title: Senior Growth Marketing Manager

Time: Full-Time (Pacific or Eastern hours)

Location: Remote

Compensation: $120,000 - $185,000 USD / year + Equity

The Company

Our client is an early-stage Series A startup focused on empowering people building games by creating next-generation development tools and software. Backed by top-tier investors, they operate as a flat, high-trust organization where team members are expected to think from first principles and pursue innovative ideas independently. As they prepare for major product expansion, they are scaling their team to capture a rapidly growing market opportunity.

Role Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Growth Marketing Manager to serve as their first growth marketing hire and build their growth engine from the ground up. In this role, you will own the full funnel end-to-end, setting strategy and executing tactically across paid acquisition, organic search, social presence, and community engagement. You will bridge content, product marketing, and growth to drive scalable user acquisition for a technical, gaming-focused audience.

Key Responsibilities

• Own growth and reach across all acquisition channels, partnering with Content to develop and optimize the acquisition playbook.

• Develop and execute a distribution strategy to build social presence and turn social into a compounding acquisition channel.

• Manage and optimize paid acquisition campaigns across Google Ads, YouTube, Reddit, and X.

• Own organic search presence end-to-end, including content SEO, technical SEO, and answer engine optimization.

• Develop programs to disseminate community-generated content from Discord and user-created projects to the broader developer community.

• Build and manage relationships with content creators, YouTubers, and key influencers to incorporate them into campaigns and product launches.

• Align content, product marketing, and growth initiatives to ensure content reaches target technical audiences effectively.

• Gather data, address measurement gaps, and establish metrics to track performance and refine growth strategies.

• Collaborate with sales to support emerging B2B motions and translate acquisition efforts into revenue.

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years of experience in growth or demand generation marketing, ideally within an early-stage B2C2B or developer-focused startup.

• Proven track record of scaling social channels and managing paid acquisition campaigns (Google, Reddit, YouTube, X) with measurable results.

• Hands-on experience owning SEO and AEO funnels end-to-end.

• Strong experience marketing to technical, discerning audiences such as developers, platforms, or gaming communities.

• Comfortable building growth strategies from scratch while maintaining a strong balance of high-level strategy and tactical execution.

• Proficient with marketing analytics, SEO tools, CRM systems, and social media management platforms.