Director, Growth

As the Director, Growth you will report to the Senior Director, Account & Venture Operations, Marc De Pape, and be responsible for early stage growth validation and will lead the growth strategy and execution for our corporate innovation partners (75%), and ventures in our Venture Studio (25%). You will play a key role in leading and guiding growth activities across all stages of ventures from early explorations, to product build and commercialization. If you’re passionate about helping clients validate new ventures, driven to find signal that a product or service is worth investment, and are flexible and creative in your approach in order to ensure the test matches the biggest needs of the venture, this role is for you.

Highline Beta was founded with the mission of building better ventures. Our thesis is this: by unlocking the assets within large companies, we can help them grow beyond their core through internal and external innovation.

We’re blending an innovation consulting business with a venture capital business, giving us the best of both worlds. We’re building a team of exceptional people that are excited by the prospect of working at a company that’s doing something different and delivering incredible value.

We love building businesses. We love the mission of finding meaningful problems to solve, and then solving them with the right solutions. We love helping others achieve their goals, whether it’s an innovation leader inside a large company, or a founder that’s scaling her startup. Everything is a puzzle that needs to be figured out, and we spend our time at Highline Beta putting the puzzle pieces together.

We work across a host of different industries and believe in our mix of entrepreneurial chutzpah and rigorous innovation methodologies to get us to the answers we’re looking for. We help some of the world’s biggest companies find and shape new business opportunities that will propel them to continued growth. For example, we’ve helped RBC Ventures launch 10+ new ventures in-market across multiple verticals. And we bring the startup ecosystem to our clients’ doors, through smart partnership opportunities and our venture studio.

Our team at Highline Beta is customer-obsessed doers who are driven by outcomes over outputs. You will be collaborating with a cross-functioning team made up of researchers like Mary Bulnes Vélez, designers like Henry Li, and strategists like Akshat Niranjan.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

Create, analyze, and communicate results from growth and marketing experiments to further validate new businesses for both our corporate clients and venture studio

Develop and maintain growth methodologies and guidelines for validating and growing early stage net new businesses

Integrate research insights and assumptions into the design of experiments

Design experiments in order to answer key Desirability, Viability and Feasibility hypotheses, choosing methods and success metrics accordingly

Develop, implement and manage market viability tests (i.e. early traction testing, channel acquisition strategies, etc.), price testing, customer acquisition cost calculation, competitor research and branding tests

Contribute copywriting to ads and landing pages, articulating testable value propositions and “Reasons to believe”

Coach both internal & external teams in both growth/marketing technical and core competencies

What you’ll need

Qualifications

You have 3-5 years experience helping validate new businesses with a focus on growth, marketing & branding

You have 5+ years experience doing some combination of demand generation, lead generation, SEO, SEM, paid marketing, content marketing, and product-led growth

You have a proven track record of success in scaling digital business through cross channel user acquisition, conversion, and retention initiatives

You are skilled in the use of business intelligence tools such as Google Analytics, Adjust, Optimizely, Mixpanel; able to implement new tools, technologies & systems

We would love if you have experience with:
D2C business, and in particular validating, launching and optimizing e-commerce businesses

Conducting social listening on various platforms

Acquiring customers for B2B products

Creative copywriting and editing skills

We’re looking for

Core Skills

Branding & Identity Content Marketing Demand Generation Growth Strategies Lead Generation SEM SEO

A little bit about us

Highline Beta

At Highline Beta, we celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Are you interested?

Work With Us

How We Hire:
Phone screen with Lisa Partridge, People Operations and Community Director

Remote interview with Marc De Pape, Senior Director, Remote Account & Venture Operations

Panel interview where you will present a case study to cross-functional HLB team members

Remote interview with Ben Yoskovitz, CPO + Founding Partner

Conduct references & security checks

Offer

Following the advice of Canadian health authorities, to mitigate the risk of the potential spread of COVID-19 and support social distancing, all recruiting activities including interviews and new hire onboarding will be conducted virtually.

Working with Us:
Highline Beta is a venture studio and corporate innovation firm. We identify and build new venture & growth opportunities.

We are advisors and builders.

We are passionate about innovation and growing businesses.

We are genuinely curious.

When you join our innovative team here at Highline, here are the benefits & perks you can expect:

Competitive salary and employer-paid health benefits, including paid parental leave and access to Inkblot Therapy

Stock Options

Bonus based on performance of role and company

Flexible vacation with 4 weeks of vacation days per year and additional flex days when needed

A diverse team who is committed to inclusion

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