Creative Growth Lead

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

The best human educators listen adapt and inspire. Most kids never get one. Were building the worlds first AI teacher to close that gap.

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. It works and kids love it.

Now were scaling that success into something even bigger: a complete AI teacher that can help children learn far beyond reading. Our new app combines language speech and memory to deliver interactive learning for kids worldwide; check it out here. Were moving fast: we ship weekly test directly with kids and push the boundaries of whats possible with AI 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.

This is a role for someone who wants to build things and put them out in the world not just execute someone elses plan. Youll originate ideas shape the strongest ones into something real and see them through to a live test with customers. Few early-stage marketing roles offer this much ownership across the full arc.

Our growth team is small and deliberately so. We stay lean and move fast: we work with external agencies for volume run in-house creative for the ideas only insiders can have and take big swings knowing that one video that lands can outperform the thirty that dont.

At its core this is high-velocity creative work: turning ideas into a steady stream of video and social creative getting it in front of real users and doubling down on what works. We want creative that stops the scroll and could only have come from Ello. We also want you to explore unconventional territory: guerilla campaigns new channels ways of putting Ello in front of parents that no one has tried. That instinct - turning a creative idea into something real and tested - is the entrepreneurial streak were hiring for.

You wont be the only source of ideas. Theyll come from our in-house creators our agencies and the whole team. We expect you to have the taste to spot the strong ones wherever they come from and the drive to carry them through to results. Youll also own the operating rhythm that keeps creative shipping quickly: writing briefs guiding feedback working with agencies and building the external creative bench as we scale.

Its a rare mix; plenty of people can dream up ideas but stall before anything ships and plenty can run a tight process but never have the idea in the first place. Were hiring for both.

Youll touch every part of a modern growth enginepaid and organic social product-led growth brand and creative campaigns at the stage where one person can still have a hand in all of it. Youll work closely with our Growth Marketing Lead and report to our General Manager who has built and scaled a consumer brand before and will coach you directly. Were hiring for trajectory: this is a natural fit for someone ready to stretch with a real path to running a team of their own.

The opportunity is bigger than making ads. Youll help define how parents understand and trust an entirely new category of AI and help a product that could change how children learn reach the families who need it.

• Come up with the creative bets worth making grounded in a sharp read of our audience: parents who want the best for their kids. Bring the ideas and just as importantly the taste to judge which are worth backing and why.

• Take those bets all the way through: shape them into briefs get them produced put them live across paid and organic social and read the results honestly to decide what to scale and what to cut.

• Produce a high volume of creative for testing using AI tools to move faster and try more than a team our size normally could.

• Take on bigger creative projects and run them end to end whether thats a guerrilla marketing campaign or turning one of our founders into the public face of AI in education. Sometimes the idea will be yours; sometimes well hand you the goal. Either way youll shape the creative and carry it through to something real.

• Run the creative pipeline: establish the weekly rhythm across in-house creators designers and agencies; find vet and manage the external creators contractors and specialist partners that keep creative volume scaling.

• Turn whats working into sharper positioning feeding the signals from live creative back into how we message and talk about the brand.

• Turn what we ship into what the market hears: work hand in hand with the product and AI teams so each new feature reaches parents as a story they feel not a spec they skim. Since we ship weekly youre the bridge between what the product can newly do and how the world finds out.

• 47 years of full-time experience across a marketing creative agency or founder/operator background or a non-marketing path with clear evidence of trajectory

• Evidence youve taken something from idea to shipped reality - ideally something you started yourself and drove to a real outcome not just contributed to

• Real demonstrable taste for short-form social: you can point to a specific hook ad or piece of content and explain why it works (or doesnt)

• Structured communicator: ask how would you approach X and you give a clear honest framework including what youd want to know before deciding

• Comfortable sourcing briefing and managing external contractors freelancers or agencies

• Actively use AI tools in your own creative or research workflow today - not occasionally - and can point to something specific its changed about how you work

• Hands-on production skill: writing light design or video editing

• Experience running an operating cadence - sprints production calendars or agency management

• Exposure to consumer parenting or education-adjacent audiences

• Experience pressure-testing messaging or positioning not just executing against a brief

• Have real user empathy: - they can put themselves in the head of a worried parent at 9pm and it shows in their creative instincts

• Bring a spark of originality - the kind of insight that takes whats working and pushes the brand somewhere it wouldnt have gone on its own

• Organize people well: sprints run on time feedback gets to the right person nothing falls through the cracks and people like working with them while it happens

• Hold a point of view and argue for it and genuinely update when someone shows them something better

• Are on a steeper trajectory than their years suggestAre early in their career and unusually good were hiring for trajectory not tenure

• Lead real creative bets from day one with the scope to invent and ship them yourself and a clear and a steep growth trajectory if youre successful.

• See every part of a modern growth engine (- paid and organic social product-led growth agencies brand and creative) - at the stage where one person can still touch all of i t which is how you become someone who can run all of it.

• Get coached directly by a General Managerthe person running marketing someone who has built and scaled a consumer brand real scope from day one and a clear path to managing our in-house creative pipeline and the creator network you build

• Help define how families come to trust an entirely new category of AI and get a product that can change how children learn into the hands of the kids who need itWork on a product parents genuinely love at a mission-driven company thats growing fast

Ello is a public benefit corporation on a mission to maximize the potential of all children. Were currently around 50 people headquartered in San Francisco with a second 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 very seriously. Because our mission is to support all children it is critical that our team is representative of the communities we work in; we place significant emphasis on ensuring diversity in our team and inclusion in our culture. If you have questions about immigration reach out to us at

We feel enormously privileged to be building at this moment. Advances in AI have made it possible for the first time to imagine giving every child a truly personalized teacher. We dont take that opportunity for granted.

We work with urgency because millions of children cant wait. We care deeply about craftsmanship because learning experiences should feel magical. And we believe its possible to build ambitious technology while building a company where people do the best work of their careers.

If that excites you wed love to meet you.

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