Head of Growth Marketing, Tumblr

Overview

Tumblr is looking for a motivated and analytical Growth Marketing lead to join their team and drive user acquisition, engagement, and retention.

Job Description

Tumblr, under Automattic, is a platform that combines social networking and blogging, aiming to advance the world's subcultures and make the internet more inclusive, interesting, and weird.

Responsibilities

  • - Develop, test, and iterate on growth marketing strategies to drive new users and increase engagement
  • - Create and validate data-informed user segmentation and targeting strategies
  • - Own and execute on your ideas—from crafting messaging to building and optimizing campaigns across various channels
  • - Measure and track user behaviors using a variety of tools, providing detailed reporting on the impact of your growth marketing efforts
  • - Drive measurable impact in conversion, sign-up, and retention rates through funnel optimization, A/B testing, and experimentation
  • - Partner with other Marketing, Product, Design, and Data teams to understand our users, our product, and the best ways to optimize the user journey
  • - Use your project management skills to lead development roadmaps, testing, and/or experimentation of new growth features and integrations
  • - Cultivate a spirit of fun and growth amongst your peers across teams
  • - Work with agencies to bolster our capabilities, and nurture those relationships to get maximum impact
  • - Lead and grow the marketing team, for the Tumblr we have today, and the place we intend to get to.

Required Skills

  • - Proficiency in data analysis, funnel optimization, and cohort-based performance reporting
  • - Experience with tools like Google Analytics, Looker, and SQL is a plus
  • - Strong skills in prioritizing, distributing, and following up on growth initiatives
  • - Breadth of experience across multiple marketing channels including SEO, SEM, mobile marketing, CRO/LPO, paid social, and lifecycle marketing
  • - Ability to use data to make informed decisions and consider resource tradeoffs for maximum business impact
  • - Confidence in using data to drive strategy and uplift team morale through mentorship and a positive attitude
  • - Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams in a fully distributed work environment
  • - The ability to take initiative and drive projects forward independently, thriving in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
  • - Experience growing a high-trust team, nurturing the teammates you have to grow and expand skill sets, and reach goals collectively

Benefits

  • - Fully-remote company
  • - Open vacation policy
  • - Compensation philosophy reflecting potential contribution and impact
  • - Benefits vary by country

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.