Growth Marketing Manager, Direct Response

About The Role We're looking for a strategist who can own growth across a pod of 5-8 clients in our direct response/info marketing division. You'll lead a cross-functional team - managing a media buyer, copywriter, and PM - and you'll be the person responsible for making sure every client has a real plan, real goals, and someone actively driving toward them. This is the most senior client-facing role in the division and you are setting the strategic direction for each client's marketing - offer positioning, funnel strategy, creative direction, KPIs - and then leading your team to execute against it. When something's working, you know why; when something's not, you've already diagnosed the constraint and you're prescribing a fix, not waiting for the client to notice. You're also a people manager. Your pod reports to you, which means setting priorities, running 1:1s, giving direct feedback, developing your people, and holding the standard on everything that leaves your pod. A strategist who does good strategy, but doesn't lead their team is only doing half of the job. What Success Looks Like Every client has documented goals broken down from quarterly to monthly to weekly, with spec…