OpenAI

Growth Marketing Manager, SMB Ads

OpenAI$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in growth marketing or related fields
  • Fluency with AI tools for marketing execution and analysis
  • Strong skills in writing and translating product value for SMB audiences
  • Familiarity with self-serve advertising platforms and SMB growth strategies
  • Ability to interpret funnel metrics and campaign performance data

Responsibilities

  • Execute growth experiments across acquisition, activation, and retention phases
  • Develop and test various marketing assets including emails and landing pages
  • Utilize AI tools for automating workflows and analyzing data
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement strategic experiments
  • Support improvements in user onboarding and campaign effectiveness
  • Document experiment results and maintain QA processes
  • Identify innovative methods to convert and retain SMB advertisers

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement
  • Access to cutting-edge AI tools and resources
  • Collaborative work environment across multiple departments
  • Hands-on involvement in shaping marketing strategies
  • Flexible working arrangements and supportive team culture
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are hiring a Growth Marketing Manager, SMB Ads to help build and execute high-velocity growth programs for small business advertisers. This person will work across acquisition, activation, lifecycle, and conversion, with an initial focus on helping advertisers move from interest and sign-up to first meaningful spend & retention over time

This is a hands-on growth role for someone who loves turning ideas into shipped experiments. You will build campaigns, lifecycle journeys, landing page tests, messaging tests, audience experiments, AI-assisted workflows, reporting improvements, and practical conversion programs. As the SMB Ads business grows, this role may continue to support acquisition and activation and expand deeper into same-store growth, lifecycle, retention, and repeat spend.

In This Role, You Will:
  • Execute growth experiments across acquisition, activation, lifecycle, and early retention.
  • Build email, in-product, landing page, audience, messaging, and offer tests that help SMB advertisers reach first spend and repeat value.
  • Use AI tools to prototype marketing assets, automate workflows, analyze funnel data, generate creative variations, and build internal growth systems.
  • Partner with Growth, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Marketing Operations to turn strategy into shipped experiments and measurable learnings.
  • Support improvements to sign-up, onboarding, campaign creation, measurement, and advertiser education.
  • Maintain experiment documentation, QA checklists, learnings, and performance readouts.
  • Translate ambiguous growth ideas into concrete tests, campaign plans, launchable assets, and clear next steps.
  • Help identify new ways to convert, activate, retain, and grow SMB advertisers.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You:
  • Have experience in growth marketing, lifecycle marketing, GTM engineering, marketing operations, product growth, demand generation, or performance marketing.
  • Have shipped campaigns, experiments, automations, landing page tests, lifecycle programs, or conversion initiatives.
  • Are comfortable working across ambiguous, fast-moving growth problems with incomplete information.
  • Can interpret funnel metrics, campaign performance, experiment results, and customer behavior signals.
  • Are fluent with AI tools and use them to accelerate marketing execution, workflow automation, analysis, personalization, prototyping, or internal tooling.
  • Have strong writing and customer judgement, especially for translating product value into clear SMB-facing messaging.
  • Enjoy working across Marketing, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations.
  • Have experience with SMB growth, self-serve funnels, advertiser growth, PLG SaaS, marketplaces, commerce, fintech, local services, creator tools, or other high-volume customer funnels.
  • Have experience with lifecycle marketing, CRM, segmentation, activation, onboarding, winback, or retention programs.
  • Have familiarity with ads products, SMB acquisition, campaign setup, advertiser education, or self-serve growth funnels, including platforms such as Google Ads, Meta Ads, TikTok for Business, Amazon Ads,, Reddit, Snap or similar.
  • Are comfortable using no-code or low-code tools, analytics tools, marketing automation platforms, SQL, scripting, or AI-assisted coding workflows to create leverage.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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