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DuckDuckGoDuckDuckGoUnited States

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Director of Paid Marketing responsible for building and scaling profitable paid subscriber acquisition programs at DuckDuckGo using privacy-respecting methods, aggregate measurement, and experimentation. Requires 10+ years experience including 4+ years senior leadership in app subscription growth.

244k – 244k/yr
Remote10+ YOEGrowth Marketing

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale a profitable paid subscriber acquisition program.
  • Partner with marketing, product, design, user insights, data science, and finance teams.
  • Own KPI development, campaign strategy, budget and resource allocation, and performance measurement.
  • Lead strategic roadmapping, prioritize high-impact projects, and resource cross-functional teams.
  • Ensure marketing performance is measured with a high degree of confidence.
  • Prove that paid marketing growth and privacy-respecting advertising practices complement each other.
  • Use aggregate measurement, experimentation, and strong judgment rather than user-level targeting.
  • Lead development of and alignment around a break-even model that defines a profitable CPA.
  • Plan integrated campaigns and secure buy-in to drive profitable paid subscriber growth.
  • Design and execute rapid testing cycles to identify and scale successful tactics.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional experience, including 4+ years in a senior leadership role driving profitable app subscription growth (ideally 1M+ subscribers).
  • Deep strategic expertise with a strong hands-on understanding of marketing channels (e.g., app store ads, paid social, mobile app networks), integrated campaign planning and execution, performance measurement, audience alignment, and creative best practices.
  • Proven track record of launching paid app subscription acquisition programs from the ground up, including setting cost-per-subscription targets, developing media plans, establishing measurement frameworks, and shaping creative and messaging.
  • Experience working at a consumer-facing tech company with a meaningful US user base (ideally 10M+ MAUs) and multiple products.
  • Skill in developing others, not just directing them, with demonstrated improvements in collaboration, expertise, productivity, and business impact.
  • Ability to apply first-principles thinking to break down ambiguous growth opportunities, challenge assumptions, identify the key drivers, and turn them into focused, achievable initiatives.
  • Comfort working in resource-constrained orgs where opportunity cost and impact are key drivers for prioritization and resource allocation.
  • High capability in analytics and measurement, including app economics (payback, LTV), incrementality/lift testing, modeling, and data analysis.
  • Excellent communication skills — able to clearly articulate recommendations and rationale, verbally and in writing, at all organizational levels.
  • Willingness to use AI and build effective workflows, accelerating work through AI agents.

Compensation and Benefits

  • $243,800 USD annually and stock options.
  • Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team.
  • Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States.
  • Paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances.

Skills

paid marketingapp store adspaid socialmobile app networksintegrated campaign planningperformance measurementaudience alignmentcreative best practicescpa modelingincrementality testinglift testingltv analysisAI Workflows
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