Territory Growth Manager
Job Summary
Gesture is a connection and behavior activation platform. Not a gifting app. We operate two engines: a consumer mobile app and Reach360 our enterprise B2B suite both powered by our proprietary REAL AI engine. Our purpose is to create the deepest connection possible. Our tagline says the rest: Stop Transacting. Start Connecting.
We are building the worlds most powerful platform for real connection at the intersection of people technology and emotion. Your job is to make that real in your city.
You own your market. Not a piece of it. All of it.
As Territory Growth Manager you are the primary owner of revenue in your territory: prospecting new consumer and B2B relationships nurturing the accounts and partnerships youve already built and executing the strategic plan that hits your financial targets.
Consumer adoption local brand credibility community presence and the B2B pipeline in your territory rise or fall on your execution. This is a boots-on-the-ground role modeled on the playbooks that launched Yelp Lyft and Post mates in new markets: real events real relationships real users in the room.
You are not a contractor handing out flyers. You are the face of Gesture in your territory and the person accountable for its growth curve.
Own territory growth targets for consumer app signups activation and engagement
Study local market trends user behavior and competitor moves to spot new territory opportunities before theyre obvious
Design and host market events end to end: business mixers user meetups co-branded activations
Run the Yelp playbook: bring local businesses schools and brands into a room with our most engaged users and first-party data proof points and let credibility do the selling
Execute guerrilla and street-level activations: pop-ups event partnerships gift card drops co-marketing alongside city and community events
Recruit and cultivate power users into a local community that shows up when you call
Manage and grow existing local partnerships and B2B accounts to drive renewals expansion and repeat business not just new logos
Bridge B2C and B2B: source qualified brand EDU and CPG introductions and hand them to the Reach360 sales team
Track your pipeline forecast territory revenue and report weekly on your numbers. You will be managed on KPIs not activity
New app signups and activations in territory
Events hosted attendance and cost per attendee
Qualified B2B EDU and CPG introductions sourced
Local partnerships signed activated and retained
Territory CAC vs. target
Competitive base salary
Quarterly bonus tied to your territory KPIs
Commission on qualified B2B referrals that close with Reach360
Your consumer growth pays you. Your B2B introductions pay you. Both engines one owner.
You need daily direction to know what to do next
You think growth marketing means scheduling social posts
You have never carried a number and been held to it
You are uncomfortable walking into a room of strangers and leaving with ten new relationships
Youd rather guess than track your numbers in a CRM
Evenings and weekends for events feel like an imposition rather than the job
You treat a territory like your own business
You have launched grown or owned a market before
You get energy from building community not just measuring it
You see as much opportunity in growing an existing account as in landing a new one.
You want your results to be visible attributable and rewarded
You believe real-world connection beats another digital ad impression
2 to 3 years in field marketing community growth territory management or market launch roles
Alumni of Yelp Lyft Uber DoorDash Postmates or similar market-launch organizations strongly preferred
Proven end-to-end event execution: sourcing promotion hosting follow-up ROI reporting
Strong sales fundamentals: comfortable prospecting pitching negotiating and closing new business
Comfort with CRM and sales analytics tools to track pipeline health and forecast accurately
Comfort with KPI-driven management and weekly metric reviews
Based in market with an existing local network strongly preferred
Ability to work evenings and weekends for events
Every market we light up proves the thesis: people are more connected than ever and feel less connection than ever. You are the person who closes that gap in your city one room one event one relationship at a time.
We dont replace digital. We complete it.
Compensation
Base Salary: $60000 $70000 commensurate with experience
Commission: Competitive performance-based commission structure
Equity: Stock options and equity participation
Health & Wellness: Health dental and vision insurance
Flexible PTO
Growth: Direct path to expanded leadership as Reach360 scales
Beautiful HQ Experience: Modern offices in NYC and Denver with creative work zones media studio and collaboration spaces
Culture: Collaborative mission-driven high-performance team environment
Interested candidates are invited to submit a resume and cover letter outlining their CPG sales experience network and vision for building and growing a territory with Reach360.
Gesture is committed to fair transparent and performance-driven compensation practices. Total compensation may include commissions bonuses or other performance-based incentives with final packages determined by experience skill set certifications and location. At Gesture we operate with a KPI-driven pace-setting culture that rewards sharp motivated high-performing individuals who take initiative and execute with excellence.
If youre ready to build a legacy grow fast and make an impact that matters we want to hear from you.
Required Skills:
WHAT YOU WILL OWN CAC ROAS and conversion performance across paid and owned channels CRM and lifecycle journeys that carry someone from their first gift to a lifetime of sending Customer segmentation and messaging across every CRM channel from first-time registrants to highest-value repeat senders How we measure campaign performance customer engagement and ROI The scaling of high-leverage channels like refer-a-friend (RAF) and SMS WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT Lets be clear: This is not a strategist role that hands off execution to someone else; you build and run the engine yourself. This is not a people-management position; there is no team to manage at least initially This is not a role built around sitting in strategy meetings; its built around dashboards tests and journeys This is not an advisory or consulting engagement; you own outcomes not recommendations WHAT YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR I. Performance Improve CAC ROAS and conversion every week across our paid and owned channels Run a constant test-and-learn loop on audiences creative and offers Move budget toward whats working before the rest goes stale II. Lifecycle & CRM Own our CRM channels end to end: the journeys that carry someone from their first gift to a lifetime of sending Shape and execute customer segments across every CRM channel from first-time registrants and leads to our highest-value repeat senders Build lifecycle journeys across email push and SMS: onboarding repeat-gifting nudges win-backs referrals and loyalty and rigorously test each one so every message drives results and feels human without increasing churn Identify and run high-value hypothesis-driven experiments inspired by what the data is telling you Keep messaging brand-aligned and improve time-to-conversion working with the content and design talent on the team to capture new leads at every funnel stage Be our CRM-stack expert and work cross-functionally with Product Analytics and Engineering to solve bigger business challenges with well-built customer communication streams Lead the scaling of high-leverage channels like refer-a-friend (RAF) and SMS III. Data Analytics & Measurement Own how we measure campaign performance customer engagement and ROI and turn the key metrics into one clear weekly call on what to do next Analyze large datasets to surface customer insights and the real drivers of campaign performance Run A/B testing and attribution analysis to sharpen marketing decisions Work with our engineering team to get the events tracking and data you need from across our platforms (web analytics CRM social and more) Pull clean and shape data from across our marketing tools so its ready for analysis and reporting Generate the reports dashboards and visualizations that show stakeholders whats trending in customer behavior and whats actually working WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE In 30 days: You understand our current CRM stack performance channels and KPIs and youve identified the biggest gaps in data measurement and lifecycle 60 days: A real test-and-learn loop is running on paid channels at least one lifecycle journey is live and being optimized and a weekly reporting cadence is in 90 days: CAC ROAS and conversion are trending in the right direction your lifecycle program is driving measurable repeat-send behavior and leadership has a clean weekly report they trust. WHAT YOU MUST HAVE 3 to 5 years hands-on in lifecycle growth or performance marketing execution not advisory with results you can point to (improved ROAS CAC retention or conversion) Start-up experience and a resilient attitude Deep CRM and lifecycle expertise: you understand CRM strategy tactics and tools and you know how to move the KPIs that matter Fluency with paid social (Meta TikTok) and marketing automation Strong data fluency: comfortable with SQL and with pulling reading and shaping your own data plus analytics / BI tools (e.g. Tableau Looker) An Excel / Google Sheets power user who can build clean reliable reporting for stakeholders and senior leadership Comfortable owning an initiative end to end from idea to build to launch to analysis and back again A doers bias to action with bold ideas and the know-how to get them done: you ship you dont just plan A high degree of intrinsic motivation: you own outcomes without being managed to them BONUS KNOWLEDGE Experience with any part of our stack: Amplitude Segment Branch Voucherify or Zoho Hands-on with data pipelines / ETL APIs or predictive analytics (a real plus but our engineering team owns the heavy data lifting) Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake BigQuery) Experience in consumer apps e-commerce or DTC bonus for repeat-purchase marketplace or gifting models Early-stage or startup experience comfortable building with imperfect data and tightening it as you go HOW YOU OPERATE Bias for Action: you ship you dont just plan Data-Driven with Instinct: you know when to trust the numbers and run the experiment and when to trust instinct and try a new direction Ownership: you own an initiative end to end and own outcomes without being managed to them Sound Judgment: you can tell what moves the needle from whats just noise Genuine Curiosity: you wonder why people send gifts not just how many WHO SHOULD NOT APPLY You want to sit in strategy meetings rather than build and run the engine yourself You need a team to manage in order to feel effective Youre uncomfortable being measured against CAC ROAS and conversion numbers every week You need perfect data before youll act
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