Growth Marketing Manager, UGC

Skill; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefit contributions

Retirement plan with match

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Skill partners with a rapidly expanding digital platform to drive user-generated content and creator marketing, building foundational growth systems with the founders. This is an opportunity to shape a beloved product used daily.

You will architect scalable programs, recruit creators across social and emerging platforms, manage campaigns from briefs to contracts, and scale partnerships with data-driven insights as the team grows.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building and scaling large-scale UGC programs.
• Extensive experience managing creator marketing campaigns from concept to execution.
• Strong analytics mindset focused on growth and performance.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a comprehensive user-generated content creator program.
• Recruit creators across social media and emerging platforms.
• Scale creator partnerships with data-driven analysis.
• Collaborate with founders on growth strategy and new features.

Skills

UGC program

Creator marketing

Campaign management

Growth analytics

Team leadership

Job description

Overview

Placement Type:

Temp to Perm

Salary:

$40-48 Hourly

Start Date:

Aug 24, 2026

Aquent/Skill is proud to partner with a rapidly expanding digital platform dedicated to personal understanding and self-discovery. This innovative company is building one of the largest brands in its field, offering users profound insights into themselves and their connections through advanced, personalized experiences. This is an exceptional opportunity to step into a pivotal role where your contributions will directly shape the future of a product that users genuinely love and rely on daily.

About the Opportunity

Are you ready to revolutionize how a beloved platform connects with its users and grows its community? We are seeking a visionary leader to drive our user-generated content and creator marketing efforts, laying the foundational strategies for a much broader marketing organization. This is your chance to not only build and scale our creator ecosystem from the ground up but also to strategically evolve our marketing initiatives across multiple acquisition channels. You will be instrumental in shaping the foundational growth strategies of a rapidly scaling platform, working directly with the founders to build, test, and scale innovative marketing systems. Your initial success will pave the way for you to grow into a senior leadership position, managing a dynamic team across diverse marketing disciplines and leaving an indelible mark on the company's trajectory. If you're ready to make a profound impact and shape the future of a beloved platform, this is the role for you!

What You'll Do Initially

• Build and manage a comprehensive user-generated content creator program.
• Recruit creators across diverse social media and emerging platforms.
• Cultivate long-term relationships with key content creators.
• Identify and onboard creators who authentically align with the brand's vision.
• Oversee all aspects of campaign management, including briefs, deliverables, contracts, and timelines.
• Proactively identify and capitalize on viral content opportunities.
• Scale creator partnerships through data-driven performance analysis.
• Innovate and test new creative formats and messaging strategies.
• Collaborate directly with founders on overarching growth strategy and new feature introductions.

Areas of Future Impact

Beyond your initial focus, this role is designed for significant expansion. You will gradually build and lead a marketing organization, overseeing and developing initiatives across a wide spectrum of growth channels, including:

Creator & Community Growth

• User-generated content creator program development
• Content creator partnerships management
• Video platform creators engagement
• Image-sharing platform creators collaboration
• Specialized niche creators outreach
• Lifestyle and personal development creators integration
• Diverse creator partnerships expansion
• Campus ambassador and intern programs initiation
• Viral content partnerships cultivation
• Community engagement and building strategies

Organic Growth

• Community forum strategy development
• Blog and editorial content development oversight
• Search engine optimization initiatives
• Application store optimization strategies
• Video content strategy creation
• Repurposing existing video content across platforms
• Creator review campaigns for enhanced search visibility
• Organic social media growth acceleration

Paid Growth

• Social media advertising management
• Search engine advertising campaigns
• Creator whitelisting for ads implementation
• Performance creative development leadership
• Feature-specific advertising campaigns execution
• Application installation campaigns optimization
• Experimentation with new advertising channels

Product Marketing

• Notification strategy development
• Email marketing campaigns oversight
• New feature launches coordination
• Product positioning definition
• Comprehensive marketing campaigns for all major feature releases

Brand Marketing

• Strategic brand partnerships cultivation
• Events and activations planning
• Media relations opportunities identification
• Cross-promotional initiatives development
• Strategic collaborations execution

How You'll Work: Architecting for Scale

This role is not just about execution; it's about architecting the systems that empower a lean team to achieve outsized impact. As you scale the organization, you will be a relentless advocate for leverage, constantly seeking ways to automate repetitive tasks, streamline manual processes, and amplify output without proportionally increasing headcount.

• Develop and implement repeatable processes and workflows for creator sourcing, outreach, content briefs, contracts, performance reporting, and content repurposing.
• Demonstrate genuine fluency with artificial intelligence tools, swiftly adopting new technologies to accelerate ideation, research, content creation, analysis, and reporting.
• Utilize automation platforms to seamlessly connect tools and eliminate manual busywork, ensuring efficient data flow and workflow management.
• Cultivate a builder's mindset, continually questioning how processes can be optimized for speed, automation, and scalability, and then integrating these solutions into standard team practices.

We seek an individual who instinctively pursues efficiency as a competitive advantage, enabling the entire marketing organization to operate smarter and faster as we grow.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year, you will have successfully established a robust creator engine that consistently fuels growth. This is a unique opportunity to join a company at an early stage, contribute significantly to its trajectory, and help define the future growth strategy of a leading brand in its domain.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Proven track record of building and scaling large-scale user-generated content and creator programs.
• Extensive experience managing creator marketing campaigns from conception to execution.
• Deep understanding of user-generated content and social-first marketing strategies.
• Exceptional project management and organizational capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating and securing creator partnerships.
• Strong analytical mindset with a relentless focus on driving growth and performance.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High degree of autonomy and self-starter mentality, thriving in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
• A clear desire to build, lead, and mentor a team.
• Mid-level professional experience (approximately 4-8 years) in relevant marketing roles.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with consumer-facing applications.
• Knowledge of the creator economy landscape.
• Background in subscription-based business models.
• Expertise in achieving organic growth on short-form video platforms.
• Experience with social media advertising platforms.
• Familiarity with search engine optimization.
• Experience with application store optimization.
• Strong community building skills.
• Proven ability to create and manage viral marketing campaigns.
• Proficiency with artificial intelligence marketing tools.
• Genuine interest in or knowledge of personal discovery, wellness, or related brands.

About Skill

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.

Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.