Growth Operations & Automation Manager

Color Health; South San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical, dental, vision, life and disb

401k match

Monthly phone and wifi stipend

Ergonomic stipend

Generous vacation policy and holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Color Health is hiring a Growth Operations & Automation Manager to scale our Growth Marketing function. You’ll join a hybrid team in South San Francisco, CA or Denver, CO, and own operating systems, automation, and reporting across campaigns.

You’ll translate problems into clear requests for product/eng and build tools that reduce manual work, while owning planning cadences and data standards to improve campaign performance and predictability.

Qualifications

• Experience in marketing or product operations, or business operations in fast-moving environments.
• Ability to turn messy problems into clear written requests with scope and owners.
• Understanding of how engineers scope and build solutions; know when to build or ask for help.
• Experience building operating cadences, planning processes or business reviews from scratch.
• Experience building or owning a measurement framework from scratch.
• Experience using AI to speed work while validating outputs.
• Fluency with spreadsheets, BI dashboards and project management software.
• Bias toward action with systems-thinking mindset.

Responsibilities

• Turn team problems into clear product/engineering requests and drive prioritization.
• Build tools and automations to reduce manual work.
• Design and run campaign calendars, QA, docs and weekly reporting.
• Serve as a go-to resource for improving processes across the team.
• Enable easier client approvals and streamlined customization requests.
• Own weekly cross-channel reporting so the team can see performance at a glance.
• Lead annual and quarterly planning, maintain cadence and goals.
• Set data standards and tagging for comparable campaign performance.
• Identify process/tool gaps and implement fixes.
• Manage marketing tech contracts and budget, forecast with Finance.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and client services to drive revenue and impact.

Skills

Marketing operations

Product operations

Technical program management

Strategy & operations

Business operations

Translating problems into requests

Working with engineers

Operating cadences

Measurement framework design

AI tools proficiency

BI dashboards

Spreadsheet proficiency

Project management tools

Tools

Braze

Asana

Airtable

SQL

BI tooling

Job description

Color is revolutionizing cancer care with the nation's first Virtual Cancer Clinic, delivering high-quality, physician-led multidisciplinary care across all 50 states. Our innovative, guideline-based approach spans cancer screening, risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis, treatment support, and survivorship. In addition to personalized direct medical care, our services include cancer genetics risk assessment, nutrition, mental health support and at-home cancer screening diagnostics. Using technology-driven, patient-centric solutions, Color is transforming how employers, unions, health plans, and governments address cancer. Color's goal is to close critical cancer care gaps, improve cancer outcomes, and guide patients with empathy through their healthcare journeys.

Apply to join Color and do the most meaningful work of your career. If you are not sure that you're 100% qualified but are up for the challenge - we want you to apply!

About the Role:

Color's Growth Marketing team is responsible for driving revenue and impact across our entire book of business. The Growth Marketing team includes lifecycle, CRM, customer marketing, onsite events, campaign strategy and execution, design, and content that brings our marketing to life across many employer, health plan, and union clients. As our team has grown, so has the operational load behind it, and right now that load is spread across individuals on the team. We're hiring a Growth Operations & Automation Manager to take ownership, and enable our team to scale. This person will be the operating system behind our energetic and dynamic team. This is an individual contributor role and reports to the Director of Engagement Marketing.

This role can either be a hybrid role onsite at our office in South San Francisco, CA or hybrid in Denver, Colorado.

How You'll Contribute:

• Turn the team's problems into clear requests for product and engineering, get them prioritized, and follow them through to launch

• Build smaller tools and automations yourself, and remove manual work

• Build and run the systems and processes that support our campaign calendar, QA and documentation, and weekly reporting, so the team moves faster and makes fewer errors

• Act as a "go-to" resource for a wide range of requests related to improving processes across the team

• Make it easier for clients to approve marketing campaigns and for the team to handle customization requests

• Own weekly reporting across channels and accounts, so anyone on the team can see how campaigns are doing without asking

• Own the team's annual and quarterly planning process: setting the cadence, keeping goals current, and holding the team accountable to them

• Help set data standards across campaigns, including naming conventions and tagging, so performance is comparable across campaigns instead of every campaign getting analyzed its own way

• Identify and understand gaps in existing processes and tools, and implement fixes

• Own the contracts and budget for the marketing tech stack, tracking renewals, evaluating new tools, and working with finance on forecasting

• Work cross-functionally with some of our closest collaborators - including product, engineering and client services, to support projects that drive revenue and patient impact

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• Experience in marketing operations, product operations, technical program or product management, strategy and operations, or business operations, working independently without dedicated analyst support

• The ability to deeply understand a messy problem and translate it into a clear written request: what's wrong, who's affected, what done looks like, and what's out of scope

• A working understanding of how engineers build, enough to scope a request, ask good questions, and know when to build something yourself and when to ask for help

• Have built operating cadences, planning processes, or business reviews from scratch in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment

• Have built or owned a measurement framework from scratch, not just reported metrics someone else defined

• Experience using AI to make your own or a team's work measurably faster, and the judgment to check what it produces and when it isn’t the solution

• Are fluent with spreadsheets, business intelligence dashboards, and project management softwares

• A bias toward action: you don't need a lot of direction to get moving, and you see systems, not just tasks, instinctively working to improve them

Nice to Haves:

• Time at high-growth technology companies

• Familiarity with pipeline measurement, marketing attribution, and lead funnel operations

• Working knowledge of SQL or business intelligence tooling

• Hands-on experience building in Braze, including custom attributes and campaign QA.

• Experience with Asana and Airtable, specifically using them to manage campaign intake and tracking

• Experience in an internal Product Management role

• Experience redesigning how a team communicates, such as meeting structure or information flow

• Healthcare, benefits, or other regulated-industry marketing experience

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits

• 401k match

• Monthly phone and wifi stipend for employees, annual ergonomic stipend

• Generous vacation policy, paid holidays and company-wide recharge days

• Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents

• Free cancer screening and prevention resources for employees and their adult dependents

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: work experience, market data, skills, geographic location, and business need. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Color prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Color conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities in our recruitment process.