Growth & Go-to-Market Leader

NewsBreak; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

NewsBreak in Mountain View, CA is seeking a senior growth/marketing leader to own the acquisition engine for Nearby AI. You will drive organic growth, manage programmatic SEO on proprietary data, and shape AI-search visibility while coordinating across engineering, marketing, and product teams.

The role requires deep experience in organic channels, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to lead a growing growth team, with a focus on editorial integrity and scalable experimentation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in growth or marketing with organic acquisition experience.
• Built and operated a large programmatic SEO program on genuine per-location or per-entity data, and can show how it performed through recent major search updates.
• Grew an organic channel materially, with attribution you can defend.
• Used generative AI in production for content or page assembly, and can articulate exactly where editorial control and quality gates sit.
• Measured AI-search visibility (citations in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Google AI answers) for at least one property and moved it.
• Managed a seven-figure annual performance-marketing budget on native or social feed inventory, including creative testing at volume.
• Managed direct reports or led a cross-functional pod.
• A record of owning a business number and of changing course when the data said so.

Responsibilities

• Define and run the growth strategy and the experimentation program that supports it, with measurement tied to marketplace outcomes rather than traffic.
• Own performance marketing across native, social, and partner inventory, including creative development and testing at scale.
• Design, build, and operate a programmatic SEO program on proprietary structured data, with editorial standards and a plan for durability through search-engine changes.
• Own AI-search visibility: how the company's content is discovered, retrieved, and cited by AI assistants, and how that is measured.
• Partner with engineering on lifecycle marketing: email, messaging, and event-triggered engagement, within the company's consent principles.
• Plan and lead the public brand launch, including positioning, PR, and initial brand investment.
• Build and lead the growth team as the company scales.

Skills

Growth marketing

Organic acquisition

Programmatic SEO

Attribution

Generative AI

AI-search visibility

Budget management

Team leadership

Business ownership

Tools

SQL

Experiment design

Job description

NewsBreak in Mountain View, CA is seeking a senior growth/marketing leader to own the acquisition engine for Nearby AI. You will drive organic growth, manage programmatic SEO on proprietary data, and shape AI-search visibility while coordinating across engineering, marketing, and product teams.

The role requires deep experience in organic channels, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to lead a growing growth team, with a focus on editorial integrity and scalable experimentation.