Automattic
Director of Customer Acquisition
Automattic
$140k - $180k
Worldwide (Remote)

Director of Customer Acquisition

Overview

Jetpack is looking for an experienced Marketing leader to create and implement strategies to acquire, convert, and monetize customers.

This person will need to act as an individual contributor as well as work with other marketers to maximize impact.

Job Description

We are the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more.

We believe in making the web a better place.

We’re a distributed company with more than 1900 Automatticians in 96 countries speaking 120+ different languages.

We democratize publishing and commerce so anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or country.

We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL.

At Automattic, we want people to love their work and show respect and empathy to all.

We welcome differences and strive to increase participation from traditionally underrepresented groups.

Our DEI committee involves Automatticians across the company and drives grassroots change.

This group has helped facilitate private online spaces for affiliated Automatticians to gather and helps run a monthly DEI People Lab series for further learning.

We make our products freely available and translate our products into numerous languages.

Responsibilities

  • - Optimizing new user flows from host partners to increase free-to-paid conversion rate
  • - Creating and scaling new paid media campaigns across platforms, campaign types, and targeting methods
  • - Growing organic website traffic and conversion by leveraging new content and other organic acquisition strategies
  • - Leveraging plugin listings to increase acquisition from key WordPress entry points
  • - Expanding revenue via targeted upsell and incentive uplift of our free user base
  • - Generating insights to improve creative across customer touchpoints

Required Skills

  • - Love solving problems and discovering opportunities to help people succeed
  • - Marketing Strategy – Understanding the levers of a scaling business. You’re able to identify and analyze key metrics and prioritize strategies to escalate growth in new users and paid conversions.
  • - Acquisition Channels – Developing and scaling paid and organic campaigns across any channel, including SEM, paid social, video, and display. You’re excited to test into new channels and new technologies to find growth.
  • - Analytical Capabilities – Owning the measurement framework of how our growth strategies impact the business. You’re very comfortable analyzing data from multiple sources to generate insights. You will report on performance to leadership, measure attribution, measure estimated vs. actualized impact, and overall incremental impact to the Jetpack business.
  • - Communication – Writing with an understanding of your audience. You will need to gain support for your ideas with leadership, get the team on board, as well as write compelling copy for landing pages, ads, and emails.
  • - Leadership - Mentors the team for continued professional development. Uplifts the morale of the team with a positive mentality.
  • - Project Management - Developing systems for accountability across teams and driving initiatives forward to completion. Measuring and reporting on estimated vs. actualized impact.
  • - Knowledge of WordPress: Understanding and knowledge of the WordPress ecosystem is a plus, including having built websites on the WordPress platform, being a member of the WordPress community, and/or understanding the various products and tools within the Automattic portfolio.

Benefits

  • - Remote-first culture that prioritizes results
  • - Space to think big, set your own roadmap, and deliver
  • - Work on a small team with a huge opportunity to scale

About the company

We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.