Growth Marketing Manager

TL;DR — Growth Manager @ Jade

• Jade = the first General Hosting Platform. Drag in a zip, get a live shareable link in minutes.
• First growth hire. No engine to inherit — you build it.
• You own acquisition end to end: paid (Meta, Google, Reddit), search (SEO + AEO), lifecycle email funnels, and the data behind it.
• You answer for the CAC. You build the dashboard yourself.
• In a few months you stop running campaigns and start hiring and leading the growth team.
• You: 1–4 yrs in acquisition, paid + organic, a track record you can point at.
• You open an editor when a process annoys you. Selling to developers is a strong plus.
• €45–55k + target bonus + equity. Real ownership, zero middle management.
• Bologna (relocation help) or remote after an initial in-office stretch.
• The goal: x10 by end of year.

Apply here: https://shade-cherry-737.notion.site/growth-manager

About Jade

Jade is the first General Hosting Platform.

You drag a zip file in, Jade reads the code, puts it online and gives you a sharable link within minutes. No configuration, no deploy files, no dev-ops.

The idea behind it is simple: anyone should be able to build software from scratch and share it with the world, fast and with as little friction as possible.

Writing code has become the easy part. The slow part is everything that comes after, getting the thing online and in front of people. That is the part we take care of.

Where are we going?

x10 by the end of the year.

The role

You own how people find Jade and how they end up paying for it. Every self-service signup that comes from paid, from search, or from an email funnel is yours.

You are the first growth hire, so there is no engine to inherit. You build it: the accounts, the tracking, the funnels, the reporting. What you land on becomes how we do growth.

Within a few months the job changes shape. Once the engine runs, your task becomes hiring and leading the growth team that runs it, and we are building for a global market, so that team will not all sit in Bologna.

What you will do

• Build the paid engine. Meta, Google, Reddit, and any channel that proves out. You pick the channels, set the budgets, and answer for the CAC.
• Own search end to end. Technical SEO, content and netlinking, SEA, and AEO, so that Jade shows up when someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity where to host a project.
• Build the lifecycle funnels. Email sequences that take a signup from first deploy to paid plan, personalised by what the user actually did in the product.
• Own the data. From the CRM through spend to growth analytics. You define which numbers matter and you are the person who reports them.
• Automate your own work. With AI and agents, starting from whatever eats your time weekly.
• Build the team. Within months, hire the growth people, set how they work, and manage them.

What are we looking for

We care more about how you think than about your tool list.

Ownership

You get a target and not much structure, and that is when you do your best work. You like taking something from zero to a number you can point at.

Paid engine

You have run real budgets on Meta and Google and can explain a campaign that failed and what you changed.

Search

You know the difference between ranking for a keyword and being the answer an AI model gives, and you have opinions on both.

Numbers

You skip the vanity metrics and track what shows whether the business is working. You can build the dashboard yourself.

Building

You use Claude, n8n, Cursor or whatever gets it done. You do not need to be an engineer. You need to be someone who opens an editor when a process annoys them.

Market

You understand SaaS, PLG, developer tools and self-service pricing well enough to know why a funnel leaks.

Leadership

You want to build a team, not just run campaigns. Or at least you are ready to.

Commitment

You believe anyone should be able to push code online and share a link within minutes.

Requirements

• 1 to 4 years running acquisition, with paid and organic both in your hands at some point.
• A track record you can show: channels, budgets, CAC, what moved.
• Managing people is a plus, not a requirement. Wanting to is a requirement.
• Strong plus: you have sold to developers before. Hosting, deployment, dev tools, vibe coding platforms, anything where the buyer writes code. You already know why this audience ignores most ads and what actually reaches them.
• Bonus: side projects. > Send those over with the numbers they did. They tell us more than a CV.

What we offer

Compensation

45 to 55k, plus a bonus tied to the targets you hit. We agree on those together during the process.

Equity

We provide equity based on the work experience.

Ownership

Own your initiatives end to end. We believe in true ownership of defined projects in order to reduce communication friction and bring results in faster.

Team building

You hire the growth team and you lead it. Whoever builds something here usually ends up running it.

Where you work

Two options. Move to Bologna and we help with a relocation bonus. Or stay where you are and spend the first stretch with us in the office, long enough to know the team and the product properly, then work remote after that.

Early-stage startup environment

No middle management, no corporate procedures, no friction from communicating with anyone. We believe in going fast, and in an environment that supports you instead of boxing you in with rules.

Apply here: https://shade-cherry-737.notion.site/growth-manager