Director of Growth and Acquisition

Chime Financial, Inc•San Francisco, CA

1d•$196,000 - $270,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Chime is seeking a Director of Growth and Acquisition to lead its digital acquisition portfolio, including paid social, paid search, affiliate, YouTube, mobile and app networks, and emerging channels. This leadership role focuses on building teams, managing channels, and delivering results while identifying and developing future growth engines. The position is part of the Media & Acquisition organization and requires a portfolio-level view of marketing investments. The role emphasizes strategic leadership, team development, and staying ahead of industry trends, particularly in AI and martech. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and representation in senior leadership forums are key aspects of this position.

Requirements

Experience leading a multi-channel digital acquisition or growth organization with meaningful business accountability — not only channel-level metrics.
A demonstrated record of owning growth, efficiency, and business outcomes.
Experience managing a significant media portfolio and making prioritization tradeoffs across channels, technology, and vendors.
A leadership style that blends strategic range with hands-on credibility — comfortable operating as both strategist and player-coach.
Experience building or scaling teams and developing future leaders.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving, cross-functional, senior-executive-visible environment.

Responsibilities

Own performance across Chime's full digital acquisition portfolio (paid social, paid search, affiliate, YouTube, mobile/app networks, and emerging channels), delivering ambitious growth, efficiency, and CAC targets.
Make portfolio-level investment and prioritization calls across channels, talent, technology, and vendor partnerships, balancing near-term performance against long-term capability building.
Lead and develop a team of experienced channel managers as a true player-coach — close enough to the work to challenge assumptions and unblock hard problems, but focused on multiplying impact through people and systems.
Build new acquisition channels, partnerships, or technology-enabled growth motions — not just optimize the existing mix.
Stay plugged into the external digital ecosystem — platforms, agencies, AI/martech vendors, startups — to identify opportunities before they're obvious and bring new capability into Chime early.
Push the organization to rebuild how it works around AI: experimentation, creative production, media buying, and measurement — not just point-solution automation.
Partner cross-functionally with Media Planning/MMM, Growth Product Marketing, Analytics, Risk, and Finance to align channel strategy to company-level growth and CAC goals.
Represent Digital Acquisition in senior leadership forums, translating channel performance into business outcomes for Growth LT, EC, and Board-level audiences.