Growth & Acquisition Manager (VC-backed HR/Ed-tech company)

About InsideSherpa

InsideSherpa partners with leading companies (e.g. JPMorgan, KPMG, Deloitte, GE, Citi and others) to create virtual work experience programs for college students wanting to build industry skills and career visibility. With 40 corporate partners globally and +100,000 students enrolled in our programs, we are backed by world-class investors including Y-Combinator, FundersClub, Navitas Ventures, Dragon Capital and others.

Growth & Acquisition Manager

We’re looking for a growth & user acquisition manager on our product growth team to help us manage the growth of our college student userbase. College students today are immunized against normal growth tactics, so we’re looking to have someone join us and run with some of our non-traditional growth strategies, tactics and experiments. From there you’ll have the freedom to develop new and unique ways to run growth projects and processes!

If you’re good at growth or acquisitions already, this role will give you the freedom and resources to tackle growth problems in a novel way – all while helping students from all universities, colleges and backgrounds gain career opportunities at top firms.

As a Growth & Acquisition Manager at InsideSherpa you will:

• Talk to many users across various geographies, deriving insights on how we can acquire more students like them
• Run consecutive growth & acquisition experiments
• Work with engineers to release, analyse and track these growth experiments
• Work with engineers to design and release these unique growth-focused products
• Work across various mediums: facebook, on-campus, phone, SEO and others The ideal candidate:

• Can think through first principles of customers & growth, where they are, what they want, how we can get in front of them in their lives
• Will be comfortable in designing and executing growth experiments that don’t fit the standard mould (e.g. doesn’t just fall back onto paid ads, or SEO)
• Will have had (1.5 years+) experience at another technology startup working on growth and/or acquisition
• Is reflective of why various growth experiments have succeeded and/or failed in the pastInsideSherpa Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• 4-week paid annual vacation
• 100% employee coverage on Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Annual international offsite with the company
• Flexible work arrangements – work from the office or home
• Travel opportunities
• Great culture and team camaraderie
• MacBook Pro

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $80,000.00 to $100,000.00 /year

Experience:

• Marketing: 2 years (Preferred)

Location:

• San Francisco, CA (Required)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Additional Compensation:

• Other forms

Work Location:

• One location

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off

This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:

• Achievement-oriented — enjoys taking on challenges, even if they might fail
• Autonomous/Independent — enjoys working with little direction
• Innovative — prefers working in unconventional ways or on tasks that require creativity