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The Sr. Growth Marketing Associate will manage paid media channel experiments, analyze performance data, and collaborate on creative strategies to drive user growth.

Own the reliability of mobile marketing instrumentation and integrations across iOS and Android. Implement and debug attribution, analytics, engagement, and advertising SDKs; maintain event, identity, consent, deep-linking, and conversion flows; validate downstream delivery; automate testing and monitoring; and troubleshoot discrepancies across apps, data platforms, attribution providers, and ad platforms. Collaborate with Mobile Engineering, Data Engineering, Marketing, and vendors to deliver integrations end to end.

Leads company-wide strategic sourcing, procurement, third-party management, category strategy, vendor negotiations, intake workflows, spend analytics, RFPs, and supplier risk oversight. Partners cross-functionally with Finance, IT, Engineering, InfoSec, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Product, and Operations. Manages one team member and drives cost savings, commercial value, operational reliability, and regulatory alignment across third-party spend.

Own and optimize lifecycle marketing campaigns across email, push, in-app, and SMS channels for Acorns and Acorns Early. Build segmented, personalized journeys in Braze, develop creative briefs, configure experiments, analyze performance, and recommend improvements. Partner with Creative, Data, Product, Legal, and Compliance teams while ensuring campaign quality, governance, and regulatory adherence. Use HTML, Liquid, and AI tools to improve personalization, QA, and workflow efficiency.

Leads marketing measurement strategy through geo holdout and incrementality testing, forecasting, experimentation, and statistical analysis. Partners with Marketing, agencies, and Data Science to guide channel budgets and campaign decisions. Queries large-scale data using SQL and Python in Databricks and BigQuery, develops measurement models, automates analyses with AI tools, and mentors analysts while providing technical leadership.

Own CTV and Podcast paid media strategy, execution, agency relationships, testing, creative performance, and optimization. Coordinate integrated paid-media planning, campaign workback schedules, creative requests, tracking, launch readiness, and cross-functional communication. Use analytics, incrementality studies, measurement, and performance reporting to guide investment decisions and support customer acquisition and growth goals.

Supports strategic and financial decision-making through financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow analysis, KPI development, variance analysis, reporting, and business insights. Partners with senior leadership and cross-functional teams on product performance, go-to-market strategy, partnerships, and potential M&A. Creates presentations and helps drive strategic initiatives across the organization.

Own execution and optimization of lifecycle acquisition and reacquisition programs across email, push, in-app, and SMS. Build personalized campaigns and automated journeys in Braze, run A/B and multivariate tests, analyze performance, handle QA and governance, and collaborate with Creative, Data, and Product teams. Ensure compliance with CAN-SPAM and leverage AI tools to accelerate campaign development.