Senior Growth Specialist

Engine; Mission, Northern (KS, KY); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid work model

Bonuses/Commissions

Job summary

Engine is redefining travel and spend management with AI-forward platforms powering business travel. We’re seeking a growth leader to own the acquisition strategy for our weddings and sports verticals, scale high-intent channels, and drive end-to-end lifecycle programs that improve customer engagement and retention.

In this role, you will partner with Product, Design, and Lifecycle teams, run structured experiments, and leverage AI to accelerate growth.

Qualifications

• Growth marketing experience across paid, organic, referral, or events.
• Ability to run structured experiments and scale successful ones.
• Data-driven with ability to pull analysis and build models.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and Lifecycle teams.
• AI fluency to leverage AI in growth initiatives.
• High ownership mentality and treating vertical as a GM would.

Responsibilities

• Own acquisition strategy across top-of-funnel channels.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Product and Sales.
• Build lifecycle programs for the wedding customer journey.
• Ship the work—hands-on when possible and escalate when needed.
• Instrument and learn from experiments to inform decisions.
• Leverage AI-native growth to move faster and test aggressively.

Skills

Growth marketing

Experimentation

Data analysis

Cross-functional

AI fluency

Ownership mindset

Tools

Amplitude

SQL

Job description

Engine is the all-in-one travel and spend management platform trusted by 38K+ businesses and groups representing 1.8M+ travelers. We're the retailer and the rails of business travel, one of the fastest-growing companies in travel tech, built on a decade of proprietary technology, supply, and pricing no one else can replicate. Other travel and AI companies run on our infrastructure to book real trips, hold rates, and move payments, without building any of it themselves. We built it, AI-forward at every layer, from how travelers book to how the rails run.

That work has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025), TravelTech's Reservation Platform of the Year (2026), and one of Built In's Best Places to Work (2020–2026).

We're looking for bold, ambitious people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel. Working here, you can expect exponential growth, an ambitious pace, full ownership, and high-caliber colleagues who push you to do the best work of your career. Every hire raises the bar.

Come outpace the ordinary and build the future of travel with us.

Your Mission

You own growth for Engine's sports and wedding vertical, two of the most high-intent, high-value use cases in group travel. That means building the acquisition strategy from the ground up, finding the channels and programs that move the needle, and scaling what works. You'll bring a point of view, test it relentlessly, and turn what you learn into a repeatable growth engine.

This isn't just a channel management role. You'll shape how we acquire and retain customers, influence what we build for them, and help define what winning in this space looks like for Engine.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Acquisition Strategy: Identify the highest-leverage opportunities at the top of the funnel. Build the strategy, translate it into experiments, ship them fast, and scale what works. Digital, field events, referral programs, affiliate, community—nothing is off the table.
• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Work closely with Product and Sales to identify what's holding us back from winning more wedding room blocks and help shape the roadmap to close those gaps. You'll bring the customer perspective and the market data.
• Build Best‑In‑Class Lifecycle Programs: Partner with our lifecycle team to design end-to-end programs that transform the wedding customer experience, from the first touchpoint online to post‑checkout. Every interaction should feel intentional and worth talking about.
• Ship the Work: This is a hands‑on role. Where you have the skills, execute directly. Where you don't, pull in the right people. You move fast, keep momentum, and don't wait for perfect.
• Instrument and Learn: You track what matters, pull your own data, and use it to make sharper decisions. You build a learning culture around your experiments, wins and losses both.
• AI‑Native Growth: Engine's growth team uses AI as a core part of how we work. Leverage modern tooling to move faster, personalize at scale, and run more tests without depending on engineering or ops.

Qualifications

• Strong growth marketing background with a track record of building and scaling acquisition programs across paid, organic, referral, field, or other channels
• Experience running structured experimentation: hypothesis, test, learn, scale, and share your learnings. You don’t just stop when the experiment is done either. If you sees positive signal, you make the case to get more resources to grow.
• Comfort with data. You pull your own analysis, build models, and back your strategy with numbers. Familiarity with tools like Amplitude, SQL, or similar is a plus
• Strong cross‑functional operator who knows how to work with Product, Design, and Lifecycle teams to get things built and shipped
• AI fluency. You use AI to multiply your output, not as a novelty
• High ownership mentality. You treat this vertical like a GM, not like a channel manager

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in B2C or marketplace growth where the buyer is high‑intent and emotionally invested
• Experience with paid media platforms (Google, Meta, TikTok, or similar) and lifecycle or CRM platforms (Salesforce, Customer.io, Klaviyo, Braze, or similar)
• 0‑to‑1 growth experience building something from early traction, not just managing at scale

We accept applications for this role on an ongoing basis. We review applications as they are received and encourage interested candidates to apply early

Compensation
Our compensation packages are based on several factors, including your experience, expertise, and location. In addition to a competitive base salary, all roles receive equity. Depending on the role, total compensation may also include an annual bonus. Your recruiter will share your complete compensation package as you move through the process.

Base Pay Range

$93,925 - $130,000 USD

The Engine Edge: Perks & Compensation
We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits:

• Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with equity for all employees. Some roles are also eligible for bonuses or commissions.
• Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid‑hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we'll make sure you have what you need to succeed.

Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more