Head of Growth & Go-to-Market

NewsBreak Open · verified Sep 13, 2026

Mountain View Director Growth Marketing

Leadership Growth Marketing role at NewsBreak. Mountain View · $180,000–$340,000 base.

SalaryStated by NewsBreak

$180,000 – $340,000

Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.

Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

Set growth strategy and experiments around marketplace outcomes, not traffic alone
Run paid acquisition across native, social, and partner inventory while testing creative at scale
Turn proprietary local data into durable programmatic SEO content with strong editorial controls
Increase how AI assistants find, retrieve, and cite company content, then measure the change
Lead the brand launch and grow the team as Nearby AI expands

What you bring

Bring at least eight years in growth or marketing, including end-to-end organic acquisition ownership
Show a large programmatic SEO operation built on genuine location or entity data
Demonstrate organic growth with attribution you can defend through major search updates
Have used generative AI in production with clear quality gates and editorial oversight
Have managed a seven-figure annual native or social budget and led reports or a cross-functional pod

Who this fits

You’ll suit a hands-on growth leader who can own a business result, change direction when evidence warrants it, and work across acquisition, product, engineering, and brand. The role is based in Mountain View, United States, within a small founding team that documents decisions and emphasizes editorial integrity and customer consent.

From the employer

About NewsBreak

Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.

Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about

About Nearby AI

Nearby AI is a new company from NewsBreak building a trust-first marketplace for local home services. We help homeowners understand a problem, what it should reasonably cost, and whether to hire at all before they are connected to a provider, and we help service providers win work on fit and outcomes rather than on speed of contact.

Our mission: give people clarity and control from the first sign of a problem to a job done right, and give good contractors work they are equipped to win.

We are a small founding team. We work from evidence, keep a written record of decisions, and hold a short set of product principles we do not trade for revenue: no pay-for-rank, no sharing of customer contact information beyond what the customer approved, and no quality claims we cannot substantiate.

The problem you will own

A new consumer marketplace has to be found before it can be trusted. You will build the acquisition engine for Nearby AI in three stages: bootstrap demand through our partner distribution, build the owned organic and AI-search channels a standalone company needs, and lead the public launch of the brand when the product has earned it.

Our most defensible growth asset is proprietary, structured local data that no incumbent can publish. Turning that data into content that search engines reward and AI assistants cite is the center of this role. Doing it with editorial integrity, rather than as content at volume, is a requirement of both the search landscape and the brand.

Responsibilities

Define and run the growth strategy and the experimentation program that supports it, with measurement tied to marketplace outcomes rather than traffic.
Own performance marketing across native, social, and partner inventory, including creative development and testing at scale.
Design, build, and operate a programmatic SEO program on proprietary structured data, with editorial standards and a plan for durability through search-engine changes.
Own AI-search visibility: how the company's content is discovered, retrieved, and cited by AI assistants, and how that is measured.
Partner with engineering on lifecycle marketing: email, messaging, and event-triggered engagement, within the company's consent principles.
Plan and lead the public brand launch, including positioning, PR, and initial brand investment.
Build and lead the growth team as the company scales.

Qualifications

Required

8+ years in growth or marketing, including several years owning an organic acquisition channel end to end.
Built and operated a large programmatic SEO program on genuine per-location or per-entity data, and can show how it performed through recent major search updates.
Grew an organic channel materially, with attribution you can defend.
Used generative AI in production for content or page assembly, and can articulate exactly where editorial control and quality gates sit.
Measured AI-search visibility (citations in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Google AI answers) for at least one property and moved it.
Managed a seven-figure annual performance-marketing budget on native or social feed inventory, including creative testing at volume.
Managed direct reports or led a cross-functional pod.
A record of owning a business number and of changing course when the data said so.

Preferred

Experience in home services, local services, or another regulated lead-generation category, including its advertising-compliance constraints.
Two-sided marketplace growth, where supply and demand had to be built together.
Led a consumer brand launch end to end.
Working SQL and hands-on experiment design and analysis.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.Annual Base Pay Range$180,000—$340,000 USD

CPRA Privacy Notice for California Candidates