Founding Growth Manager

Melotech•Berlin, NY

2d•Remote

About The Position

Melotech is revolutionizing media and entertainment, creating art through technology that has been enjoyed for over 3 billion minutes worldwide in just 24 months. Founded by Soheil Mirpour and backed by top VCs and angels, Melotech is scaling rapidly. Paid acquisition is a key growth engine, and the Growth Manager will own this engine end-to-end, managing the budget, channels, creative testing, and performance metrics. This role is primarily focused on paid acquisition, measured by return on ad spend. The Growth Manager will decide budget allocation across a diverse portfolio of releases and campaigns, working closely with founders, product, and data teams. The current landscape involves managing dozens of campaigns, hundreds of ad sets, and thousands of creatives across Meta, TikTok, and Snapchat. A primary responsibility will be to optimize this volume by consolidating or splitting campaigns, separating testing from scaling, and segmenting by geography, age, and placement to ensure meaningful data analysis.

Requirements

Hands-on paid operator who thinks like a trader, or a sharp growth generalist who has done the buying
Experience running real budgets directly, not through a team or an agency, and ability to show the numbers
2 to 7 years of hands-on paid buying experience, ideally in a startup or small team where you set things up yourself
Owned Meta, TikTok or Snapchat end-to-end, ideally more than one of them and more than once, and have run accounts at real volume
Experience structuring hundreds of ad sets and thousands of creatives without losing control
Experience with creative testing at scale: testing on a schedule with kill rules, directing creative partners, and noticing when a hook or format is burning out
Comfortable allocating a budget across many bets with thin margins and making structured decisions under uncertainty
Experience with game portfolios, app portfolios, e-commerce with many products or similar is a plus
Experience checking what platforms report against your own data, running holdout or lift tests, judging spend by payback, not cost per click, and knowing which metric answers which question
Experience working in SQL or Python, using ad platform APIs, and building your own reporting and automations
Thrive in a fast-paced and performance-oriented environment

Nice To Haves

Bring a network of trusted editors, creators and agencies
A data science background is a plus
Stay close to what works in paid social right now
Interest in music, media, gaming or social

Responsibilities

Account structure: deciding what to consolidate and what to split, keeping testing and scaling apart, and segmenting ad sets by geography, age and placement
Campaign operations: running the campaigns day to day on Meta, TikTok and Snapchat, including budgets, pacing and the targets behind them
Creative pipeline: building a system that keeps new creatives flowing every week, with clear rules for what wins and what gets killed, and briefs that turn last week's numbers into next week's ads
Creative partners: directing editors, video producers, UGC creators and agencies to the volume and quality the account needs
Portfolio allocation: moving budget across many releases and campaigns on data, weighing upside against risk
Measurement: knowing which metric answers which question, for example what CPM tells you that CPC does not, and catching a shift in cost the day it happens
Tooling: building the reports, scripts and automations you need, with the ad platform APIs and AI tools as your daily coworkers