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Senior Director of Paid Acquisition

We're on a mission to build a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We’re building a financial services company so you can design the life you want and make it happen.

Wealthfront

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 190k-240k USD

United States only
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Marketing at Wealthfront is a fun, nimble team with ambitious goals to drive business results. We’re looking for a Director of Paid Marketing to lead the paid marketing team. Your goal will be to drive new user client and asset growth for the business through the development and execution of full-funnel paid acquisition strategies, which include both optimizations in our core performance channels and expansion into new experimental opportunities. The ideal candidate is an exceptionally strong strategic thinker and planner, someone who defines the big picture view, while also maintaining a clear view on the details; they are a strong people leader who drives executional excellence, offers clear guidance and motivates people to consistently grow and scale their impact; they are well-versed in quantitative and qualitative marketing analytics and can build a culture of insight-driven decision making.
You will lead a seasoned team of growth and performance marketers, as well as manage external agencies. You will also partner closely with leaders across Data Science Engineering, Product Marketing, Lifecycle Marketing, Consumer Research and Creative to deliver on our goals.
This role sits on the marketing leadership team and reports directly into the VP of Marketing. We’re a remote friendly team and open to candidates from both the US and Canada.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the user acquisition / paid marketing team to define a strategic roadmap that balances incremental optimizations, opportunities to scale, and new channel experimentation
  • Expand our paid media mix, and develop a full funnel marketing strategy
  • Mentor and build a growing team of performance marketers at different stages in their careers to design, execute and optimize campaigns across channels (podcasts, video, paid social, search, affiliates, CTV, OOH, partnerships)
  • Develop a deep understanding of the customer journey for our products, including where and how different media channels fit into that journey
  • Drive the marketing budget and forecasting process for new clients and assets across channels
  • Partner with Analytics, Data Science Engineering to refine our attribution models and reporting to deliver clear, measurable results
  • Clearly communicate our paid marketing strategy, performance and insights to cross-functional and executive teams on a regular basis
  • Act as a direct interface with various media and marketing vendors (agencies, platforms, tools), owning responsibilities including payments, onboarding, reporting and analysis

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of acquisition marketing experience in a B2C environment (consumer tech experience with a high growth company is a plus)
  • 5+ years people management experience, including hiring, mentoring and organizational design
  • Strong understanding of both Brand building and DR performance marketing; and how the two approaches work together over time
  • Experience leading and developing online/offline acquisition strategies across multi business lines, channels, and audiences
  • Experience with incrementality and/or MMM, and developing measurement frameworks beyond last click attribution
  • Knowledge of industry trends and innovation in paid media, tracking, analytics and research
  • Balanced strategic, analytical and operational thinker; SQL knowledge a plus
  • Thrives as a self-starter in fast paced environments
  • Personal finance knowledge/experience is a big bonus, but not required
  • Bachelor's degree or higher
Estimated annual salary range: $190k - $240k USD, plus Equity. Plus benefits including medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!

About Wealthfront

Wealthfront started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory business, with the goal to unlock access to high quality investment advice for millions who were underserved by the traditional institutions. We built one of the first automated investment products that allows you to invest in a personalized portfolio of thousands of companies in seconds for a remarkably low fee. We then expanded. We now work with partner banks to offer exceptional banking features through a Wealthfront Brokerage Cash Account, which makes it remarkably easy for people to automate their finances end-to-end and eliminated the hassle of money management, all of which resulted in attracting more than $50 billion of our client’s hard earned money, pioneering the robo-advisor category and transforming the broader industry. And yet, we have a long way to go to achieve our mission to build a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
Wealthfront’s vision is to make it delightfully easy to build long-term wealth on your own terms. This vision is more relevant than ever because millions more people are getting into the market early and investing their hard earned savings in a handful of stocks. While this is a great way to start, it is inconsistent with building long-term wealth. We want to empower young investors to expand their horizon, and easily explore and execute on a wider range of investing strategies, make informed investment decisions that are consistent with their values and beliefs while also making it effortless to grow and compound their savings exponentially in a way that’s transformational to their lives and their long-term future.
For more information please visit www.wealthfront.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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May 09, 2024

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Mar 10, 2024

Job type

Full Time

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Director
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Salary

Salary: 190k-240k USD

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About Wealthfront

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We make it delightfully easy to build wealth. Which isn’t usually the case. Because other companies aren’t looking out for you, long-term.

If you try to do things yourself, you’re never sure if you’re making the right decisions.

If you use advisors, you’re never sure whether they’re making the best decisions for you... or for themselves.

Wealthfront levels the playing field. Because everyone deserves an equal chance to succeed.

Here’s how it all started. Meet Andy.

After a successful career as the co-founder of VC firm Benchmark Capital, Wealthfront co-founder Andy Rachleff kicked back into a relaxed retirement*.

Teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Partnering with his wife and the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation to fund novel cancer research projects.

Sitting on the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees, his alma mater, where he was Vice Chairman of the university’s endowment investment committee.

At Stanford, entrepreneurs and students alike came to him for investing advice. But he often couldn’t recommend the services he used because the minimums were too high — especially for students.

He saw a need to democratize access to sophisticated investment products.

Meanwhile at U Penn, Andy found that even the best-managed endowments in the world relied on spreadsheets, outdated tools, and manual calculations. It turned out that even high-end investors needed an upgrade.

Andy’s tech expertise led to a breakthrough notion:

Software could make investing easier and better for more people.

Meet Dan Carroll.

Around this time, Dan Carroll was visiting his parents outside Chicago. They’d been hit hard by the financial crisis of 2008, and Dan, a former trader, was helping them assess the damage. He opened a statement from their financial advisor and was horrified.

He knew the deal — financial advisors make 90% of their revenue from the top 20% of their clients.

People like his parents didn’t get the attention they deserved — that they paid for.

It was clear to him most people didn’t have access to good financial advice.

And he decided to do something about it.

So he started tinkering with a few solutions. He eventually built a prototype that got some traction, and even got the attention of a lecturer at Stanford.

That’s when Andy called Dan.

But no, this isn’t the point in the story when Wealthfront was born. Dan thought VCs were [bleep], so he didn’t call back. He wasn’t about to sell out.

He was on a mission to do good.

Andy persisted, however, and eventually tracked Dan down. He explained that he’d already had a wildly successful career, so he wasn’t in it for greed. He simply wanted more people to have the same investing advantages that he had.

The two realized they not only shared a mission — to help democratize access to sophisticated financial advice — they agreed that software could unlock great investing for everyone. So they gathered some of the best technical minds they knew.

That was the day Wealthfront was formed.

Employee benefits

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Discretionary time off policy

We work hard, but we rejuvenate too.

Retirement benefits

401(k) to help you invest in your future.

Equity benefits

Equity, so you are rewarded for your best work.

Paid parental leave

We offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave (both parents).

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2008

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David Fortunato

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