Growth Manager, Audio

About Us:

Grow was born to tackle a critical challenge: making mental health care more effective and accessible for everyone. Since launching in 2020 15 million sessions have started on Grow and weve barely scratched the surface. We do it through a three-sided marketplace that empowers providers augments insurance payors and serves patients. Every solution we build reveals ten more waiting to be delivered and thats just what gets us going. Weve backed that ambition with more than $328M in funding including our Series D at a $3B valuation from Sequoia Capital Transformation Capital TCV SignalFire Menlo Ventures Goldman Sachs Alternatives and others.

At Grow the work you do can literally change someones life. Your work here doesnt stay on a screen; it impacts whether someone can find afford and access quality care. That ambition sets us apart and offers you an endless runway to impact one of the worlds most urgent issues. We dont have passenger seats here. Everyone is driving something that matters.

This work deserves real commitment. So if you thrive on meeting problems head on untangling serious complexity and working at pace with the sharpest yet kindest people around youve come to the right place.

The Opportunity:
We are looking for an Growth Manager Audio to help scale Grows audio program spanning podcast streaming and experimental audio placements building on a foundation our team has already this role youll own the channel end to end accountable for both strategy and execution: managing a pipeline of host-read and run-of-network partnerships and refining our mix of activation models. Youll manage vendor and partner relationships and negotiate new opportunities. And youll continuously optimize toward efficiency and scale goals all while building genuine brand affinity along the way.

You will work closely with our Director of Mass Media Influencer Marketing Manager Creative Data and leadership to shape channel strategy bring creative direction to life in audio-specific formats and grow this into one of Grows most efficient and best-measured growth channels. Youll also own the roadmap that governs how we test new shows and partnerships against whats already working and youll be a driving voice in how we forecast and plan the channels growth over time.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned audio or podcast marketer who is equal parts scrappy and strategic someone with strong instincts for brand fit experience negotiating and managing partner relationships and a track record of building on and improving measurement and testing infrastructure. Youre comfortable operating as a player-coach executing the details of the channel while also stepping back to sharpen the roadmap that scales it. You bring rigor to how you read performance data arent afraid to challenge assumptions about whats working and know how to make a case for a channel that doesnt have the clean click-based attribution other channels enjoy.

What Youll Be Doing:

• Own podcast/show pipeline management sourcing sponsorships ad placements and vendor partnerships and evaluating contextual alignment between shows and our target audience

• Build a pipeline of new shows to test against established partnerships and scale top-performing models

• Refine our channel activation model balancing and proving the value of host-read vs. run-of-network placements and sponsorships/partnerships

• Own the audio channel roadmap operationalizing a deliberate testing and scaling plan

• Manage vendor/partner relationships end-to-end

• Establish measurement methodology for a channel without clean click-based attribution (promo codes vanity URLs incrementality/lift testing) and manage day-to-day performance

• Evaluate audios halo effect on other channels as MMM infrastructure becomes available

• Partner with the creative team on audio creative direction (input not ownership)

This role is based in our New York NY hub where we require an in-office presence three days per week.

Youll Be a Good Fit If You Have:

• You can take full ownership of a channel and are comfortable building testing frameworks and infrastructure from scratch

• You have 5-7 years managing paid media budgets with direct audio/podcast buying experience (in-house DTC or healthcare background a plus)

• You are analytically self-sufficient and can use data tools to evaluate performance and communicate progress without hand-holding

• You are comfortable managing external vendor/agency relationships and negotiating on Grows behalf

• You are extremely organized and can run a channel solo (player-coach) while still building toward how it scales

• You have a strong point of view on measurement methodology in channels without clean attribution

Employment Type: Full Time Exempt
Base Compensation: The base compensation range for this position is $144000$168000 USD Annually

This is a hybrid role with the expectation to work onsite from our NYC hub location three days per week (Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday) and travel 23 times per year (e.g. company and department offsites).
The base compensation for this role will vary depending on several factors including relevant experience qualifications and the candidates working location.

Full Time Employee Benefits:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive medical dental vision life and disability coverage.

• Grow for Grow: No cost access to therapy through the Grow platform (available to US employees)

• Financial Wellness: Retirement savings programs and equity opportunities to help you invest in your future.

• Flexible Time Off Paid Holidays & Winter Break: Flexible time off company paid holidays (which vary by country) and a full company wide Winter Break to rest and recharge

• Parental Leave: Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave to support you and your growing family and a new child stipend.

• Mental Health Mornings/Afternoons: Dedicated weekly flexible time for self care whether thats therapy exercise journaling time with family or simply taking a break.

• Wellness & Development Stipend: Annual stipend to support your personal wellbeing and professional growth from fitness and education to books and learning resources.

• Commuter Benefits: Pre tax commuter benefits to support teammates working from one of our hub locations.

• Home Office & Meals: Support for your home workspace plus meal benefits with offerings tailored to both remote and hub based employees.

• Additional Perks: A variety of wellbeing benefits including wellness memberships virtual care pet insurance discounts (where available) and global travel assistance.

Research shows that some groups hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification. If youre excited about this role but dont check every box we encourage you to apply. At Grow we value diverse experiences transferable skills and the unique strengths each person brings.

Grow Therapy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

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Required Experience:

Manager