Sr. Growth Marketing Manager, Mobile App

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$90K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in growth marketing, user acquisition, or related fields; 4+ years with consumer mobile apps.
  • Expertise in multi-channel growth including paid social and search, app campaigns, and referrals.
  • Hands-on ASO skills for iOS and Android platforms.
  • Familiarity with acquisition tools like App Store Connect and Google Play Console.
  • Knowledge of mobile measurement tools such as AppsFlyer and Adjust.
  • Understanding of deep linking and mobile attribution constraints.
  • Experience with lifecycle platforms like Braze or Iterable.
  • Analytical mindset with a focus on producing actionable test results.
  • Ability to create structure in undefined environments, building effective processes and systems.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage mobile growth strategies focused on acquisition and retention.
  • Lead App Store Optimization efforts, including keyword and creative strategies.
  • Create and maintain an ASO testing roadmap to enhance performance.
  • Conduct mobile acquisition testing across multiple digital channels.
  • Collaborate with paid media and creative teams to align app acquisition with broader marketing strategies.
  • Select and optimize mobile lifecycle tools for effective user engagement.
  • Design and implement push notifications and in-app messaging to enhance user experience.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to refine mobile measurement and attribution systems.
  • Monitor and analyze key mobile growth metrics and report findings regularly.
  • Design growth experiments with clear success metrics and recommendations.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible work environment with options for remote work.
  • Professional development opportunities and training.
  • Generous vacation policy to encourage work-life balance.
  • Employee wellness programs and resources.
Full Job Description
Role Responsibilities
  • Own mobile growth strategy across app acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention, with a mobile-first but multi-channel point of view.
  • Lead App Store Optimization across iOS and Android, including keyword strategy, listing copy, screenshots, preview video, ratings and reviews, competitor research, and ongoing conversion testing.
  • Build and maintain an ASO testing roadmap, including keyword rank tracking, Custom Product Pages, creative tests, and learnings from paid traffic that can improve organic app store performance.
  • Manage mobile acquisition testing across channels such as Apple Search Ads, Google App Campaigns, AppLovin, Meta, TikTok, creator, referral, and other emerging platforms.
  • Partner with the paid media lead and creative team to connect app acquisition strategy with broader performance marketing, creative testing, and web-to-app growth efforts.
  • Select, set up, and optimize mobile lifecycle tools such as Braze, Iterable, OneSignal, or similar platforms.
  • Build behavioral push notification and in-app messaging journeys tied to onboarding, activation, reward redemption, milestones, re-engagement, and retention.
  • Own push permission strategy, segmentation, timing, frequency, copy testing, and deep link destinations to improve downstream conversion, not just opens or sends.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering on mobile attribution, deep linking, deferred deep linking, SKAdNetwork, conversion value mapping, and measurement infrastructure.
  • Track and report on key mobile growth metrics, including installs, CAC, install-to-activation rate, install-to-invest conversion, D1/D7/D30 retention, channel performance, and cohort quality.
  • Design mobile growth experiments with clear hypotheses, success criteria, minimum signal requirements, and a recommendation to scale, iterate, or stop.
  • Build and manage a prioritized mobile growth experiment backlog, with a clear point of view on what should be tested next and why.
  • Turn insights from app stores, paid channels, lifecycle campaigns, web behavior, and product data into clear recommendations for the next phase of growth.
  • Bring structure to an early mobile growth function by helping define the tools, reporting cadence, naming conventions, testing rhythm, and operating process from scratch.
Qualifications
  • 7+ years of experience in growth marketing, mobile growth, user acquisition, performance marketing, or related growth roles. 4+ years of hands-on experience growing a consumer mobile app.
  • Strong multi-channel growth experience across some combination of paid social, paid search, app campaigns, lifecycle, referral, creator, organic, web-to-app, or partnerships.
  • Hands-on ASO experience across iOS and Android.
  • Experience with App Store Connect, Google Play Console, Apple Search Ads, Google App Campaigns, Meta, TikTok, or similar acquisition platforms.
  • Working knowledge of mobile measurement and attribution tools such as AppsFlyer, Adjust, Branch, or similar platforms.
  • Understanding of deep linking, deferred deep linking, SKAdNetwork, and mobile attribution constraints.
  • Experience with lifecycle or messaging platforms such as Braze, Iterable, OneSignal, or similar tools.
  • Strong analytical judgment and experience designing tests that produce useful signal, not just activity.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguity and build systems, processes, reporting, and testing rhythms from scratch.
  • Clear written communication, especially around experiment briefs, performance readouts, and recommendations.
Strong Differentiators
  • Experience with fintech, investing, financial wellness, rewards, marketplace, subscription, or community-driven consumer products.
  • Experience with AppLovin, IronSource, Digital Turbine, or other mobile ad networks.
  • Experience balancing performance marketing, lifecycle engagement, trust, compliance, and brand quality.
  • Experience launching or scaling an app from an early stage.

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