Growth Marketing Manager, UGC

Aquent/Skill is partnering with a rapidly expanding digital platform dedicated to personal understanding and self-discovery through astrology. This innovative company is building one of the largest brands in its field, offering users profound insights into themselves and their connections through advanced, personalized experiences. Join a team where your contributions will directly shape the future of a product that users genuinely love and rely on daily.

This is an exceptional opportunity to step into a pivotal role that begins with revolutionizing user-generated content and creator marketing, but quickly evolves into something much grander. You'll be instrumental in shaping the foundational growth strategies of a rapidly scaling platform, working directly with the founders to build, test, and scale innovative marketing systems from the ground up. Your initial success will pave the way for you to grow into a senior leadership position, managing a dynamic team across diverse marketing disciplines and leaving an indelible mark on the company's trajectory.

What You'll Do Initially

Your first focus will be owning and scaling our creator ecosystem. You'll:

• Build and manage a comprehensive user-generated content creator program.
• Recruit creators across diverse social media and emerging platforms.
• Cultivate long-term relationships with key content creators.
• Identify and onboard creators who authentically align with the brand's vision.
• Oversee all aspects of campaign management, including briefs, deliverables, contracts, and timelines.
• Proactively identify and capitalize on viral content opportunities.
• Scale creator partnerships through data-driven performance analysis.
• Innovate and test new creative formats and messaging strategies.
• Collaborate directly with founders on overarching growth strategy and new feature introductions.

How This Role Will Grow

You'll gradually build and lead a marketing organization responsible for multiple acquisition channels. You'll help build, manage, and eventually oversee initiatives including:

Creator & Community Growth

• User-generated content creator program
• Content creator partnerships
• Video platform creators
• Image-sharing platform creators
• Specialized niche creators
• Lifestyle and personal development creators
• Diverse creator partnerships
• Campus ambassador and intern programs
• Viral content partnerships
• Community engagement and building

Organic Growth

• Community forum strategy
• Blog and editorial content development
• Search engine optimization
• Application store optimization
• Video content strategy
• Repurposing existing video content across platforms
• Creator review campaigns for enhanced search visibility
• Organic social media growth

Paid Growth

• Social media advertising
• Search engine advertising
• Creator whitelisting for ads
• Performance creative development
• Feature-specific advertising campaigns
• Application installation campaigns
• Experimentation with new advertising channels

Product Marketing

• Notification strategy
• Email marketing campaigns
• New feature launches
• Product positioning
• Comprehensive marketing campaigns for all major feature releases

Brand Marketing

• Strategic brand partnerships
• Events and activations
• Media relations opportunities
• Cross-promotional initiatives
• Strategic collaborations

What We're Looking For (Must-Haves)

We're seeking a visionary who thinks like a founder, someone who identifies opportunities everywhere and is excited by testing new growth channels, experimenting with ideas, and building scalable systems. You should have:

• Proven track record of building and scaling large-scale user-generated content and creator programs.
• Extensive experience managing creator marketing campaigns from conception to execution.
• Deep understanding of user-generated content and social-first marketing strategies.
• Exceptional project management and organizational capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating and securing creator partnerships.
• Strong analytical mindset with a relentless focus on driving growth and performance.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High degree of autonomy and self-starter mentality, thriving in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
• A clear desire to build, lead, and mentor a team.
• Mid-level professional experience (approximately 4-8 years) in relevant marketing roles.

Bonus Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves)

• Experience with consumer-facing applications.
• Knowledge of the creator economy landscape.
• Background in subscription-based business models.
• Expertise in achieving organic growth on short-form video platforms.
• Experience with social media advertising platforms.
• Familiarity with search engine optimization.
• Experience with application store optimization.
• Strong community building skills.
• Proven ability to create and manage viral marketing campaigns.
• Proficiency with artificial intelligence marketing tools.
• Genuine interest in or knowledge of personal discovery, wellness, or spiritual brands.

How You'll Work: Systems & Leverage

This role is not just about execution; it's about architecting the systems that empower a lean team to achieve outsized impact. As you scale the organization, you will be a relentless advocate for leverage, constantly seeking ways to automate repetitive tasks, streamline manual processes, and amplify output without proportionally increasing headcount.

You will:

• Develop and implement repeatable processes and workflows for creator sourcing, outreach, content briefs, contracts, performance reporting, and content repurposing.
• Demonstrate genuine fluency with artificial intelligence tools, swiftly adopting new technologies to accelerate ideation, research, content creation, analysis, and reporting.
• Utilize automation platforms to seamlessly connect tools and eliminate manual busywork, ensuring efficient data flow and workflow management.
• Cultivate a builder's mindset, continually questioning how processes can be optimized for speed, automation, and scalability, and then integrating these solutions into standard team practices.

We seek an individual who instinctively pursues efficiency as a competitive advantage, enabling the entire marketing organization to operate smarter and faster as we grow.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year, you will have successfully established a robust creator engine that consistently fuels growth. This is a unique opportunity to join a company at an early stage, contribute significantly to its trajectory, and help define the future growth strategy of a leading brand in its domain.

About Skill

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.

Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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