Creative Marketing Lead Head of Creative Marketing

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 170 - 230

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Marketing

Job Summary

Our mission at Ello is simple and urgent: Maximize the potential of every child everywhere.

Were building the worlds first AI teacher to close that gap: one that listens speaks adapts and inspires just like the best human educators.

Our first product Read with Ello is already helping tens of thousands of kids each week learn to read. It listens as they read aloud offers support when they stumble and generates magical personalized stories using generative AI. It worksand kids love it.

Now were scaling that success into something even bigger: a complete AI teacher for all children. Were building a real-time learning platformone that combines language speech and memory to power personalized interactive education for kids worldwide. Were moving fast: we ship weekly test directly with kids and families and push the boundaries of what AI can do in education.

With the resources of the worlds top investors and the heart of a public benefit corporation were here to revolutionize how children learn globally. Featured on TIMEs Best Inventions and Fortunes Change the World Ello is a small mission-driven team taking on one of the most important challenges of our time: to democratize education.

About the Role

This is a foundational creative leadership role that has high ownership.

Were looking for a Creative Marketing Lead (title/level dependent on experience) to own Ellos creative output across brand organic social and awareness to fuel growth through great creative.

This role is deeply hands-on. Youll be writing creating concepting and shipping work yourself while also setting direction and managing contractors. If youre energized by doing the work and shaping how creative drives growth this is your sweet spot.

This role does not include paid media strategy or performance marketing. Youll partner closely with a Performance Marketing Manager or agency who owns paid spend.

Note on the title: this role is intentionally scoped with flexibility. Were excited about candidates who are brilliant senior ICs as well as those who have operated at a more senior leadership level while still being deeply hands-on. What matters most to us is creative excellence ownership and drive.

What Youll Own

Creative direction and experimentation across growth channels
Sourcing and managing freelancers creators and small agencies
Developing Ellos brand voice and creative standards as we scale
Owning messaging and storytelling across Ellos key surfaces (social landing pages campaigns)
End-to-end creation of content: writing concepting scripting and producing

Who You Are

A hands-on creative marketer you still write create and ship regularly
Strong at storytelling and copywriting with a clear point of view
Experienced collaborating with performance marketers without needing to own the channel
Comfortable moving fast testing ideas and iterating without perfect briefs
Excited to focus on creative excellence rather than owning the full marketing stack
Drawn to education parenting or mission-driven consumer products

Requirements

510 years in creative brand content or social marketing
Experience launching campaigns or products at consumer or mission-driven brands
Evidence of recent hands-on creative work (not just managing agencies)

About Ello

Ello is a public benefit corporation on a mission to maximize the potential of all children. Were currently around 48 people headquartered in San Francisco with another office in Nairobi Kenya.

Our team has deep expertise in artificial intelligence K-12 education and child development across institutions such as Stanford Berkeley Google Apple and more. We were part of Y Combinators W20 batch and are funded by world-class investors including Goodwater Capital Homebrew Reed Hastings Common Sense Growth Ravensburger Project A Ventures Reach Capital Khosla Ventures WndrCo Visible Ventures and K9 Ventures.

Were a small collaborative team that takes each others voices seriously. Because our mission is to support all children our team must be representative of the communities we work in; we place significant emphasis on ensuring diversity in our team and inclusion in our culture.

We feel enormously privileged to be one of the few companies with the opportunity to take a shot at truly revolutionizing education with AI at this inflection point in technology. We dont take it for granted so we work urgently to turn that vision into reality. We want to create an environment where we can all be our best selves use our strengths to take Ello forward and develop our skills. We want to have fun while working hard to do impactful things were proud of and we believe its possible to do both.

At Ello diversity is a moral imperative and a competitive advantage. We do not discriminate based on race religion skin color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to assess skills and experience directly. If you need accommodations throughout the interview process please contact

Required Experience:

Director

Our mission at Ello is simple and urgent: Maximize the potential of every child everywhere.Were building the worlds first AI teacher to close that gap: one that listens speaks adapts and inspires just like the best human educators.Our first product Read with Ello is already helping tens of thousands...