Head of Acquisition
DERMADREAM · Sweden
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Are you a maniacal missionary who wants nothing more than to prove they can scale a DTC Brand to $1BN in profitable revenue in their lifetime?
Are you a leader who looks at teams, people & problems with a leadership bias and understands that next to the numbers, there is the development of people that is needed to achieve our scaling goals?
Are you looking for a company that uses the scientific method & theory of constraints combined with a relentless push for growth to do what has never been done before?
We are My Derma Dream! An almost 9-figure company looking to 10X to $1BN over the coming 12-18 months by expanding our LTV to CAC from 1.6 to 6X and dominating the mid-high ticket anti-aging space with our unique offerings of devices, topicals & programs.
We are looking for a Head of Growth who is willing to dedicate 80-100 hours / week to achieving their goals (doing what has never been done before) in our company, where we value big dreams, mentorship, speed, aggression, intellectual honesty & unapologetic alignment.
We have a marketing org consisting of direct response, paid media, amazon, google, email marketing, cro, web development & creative who’s leaders all report to our Creative director and/or CEO today.
If you understand the world of hardcore direct response marketing…
If you consider yourself someone who wants to be a great leader…
If you are looking for the ride of a lifetime and truly build a business that changes the lives of the people it serves & the people that make up the team…
Then APPLY NOW!
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Results:
- Achieve $1BN in profitable revenue in 2027 (10% EBITDA)
- Increase LTV from 1.6 to 6X (in partnership with sales)
- Increase our Day 1 LTV/CAC to from 0.8 to 1.5 (Day 2 cash flow positive)
- Expand our hero product portfolio from 2 hero products to 5 hero products
- Create a duplicatable Winter Marketing Strategy that has us grow in Q1 > Q4 year after year (historically slow)
- Create a duplicatable Summer Marketing Strategy that has us grow in Q3 > Q2 year after year (historically slow)
- Add new paid acquisition channel category: Native Ads (Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, News Break)
- Implement Multi-Touch Attribution & Mixed Marketing Modeling
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Responsibilities:
- Increase the throughput & success of all the results under your leadership (Hero Offer Expansion, Pain Point Expansion, Ads, internal media buying, agencies, affiliates, Funnels, Upsell Value, Amazon, Google, Email)
- Learn the current “goals” of the marketing organization
- Guarantee that the leaders are all in sync as to the change-log & hypothesis testing that has taken & takes place in the respective departments with the aim of achieving the Acquisition Division & MDD’s goals
- Develop the departmental leaders in their abilities, management skills & leadership qualities
- Constantly be in & organize the joint search & identification for the true bottlenecks in the processes that achieve the goals of the org, question every step and apply the Theory of Constraints & “The Algorithm” by Elon Musk in solving the problems with your team.
- Network with founders & marketing executives on a daily basis in order to build & grow your personal network with the aim of having a broad, wise & deep understanding of the challenges of your division, your team & the company/
- Design comp structures & incentive plans that rally the teams to perform at their best
- Hold leaders accountable
- “Sleep on the factory floor” and have no limit to the depth of understanding you are willing to attain when working on the biggest bottleneck
- Be an example to others
- Host divisional mentorship calls with your team & a divisional mentor on a weekly basis
- Identify & Recruit skill-based mentors for your departmental leaders to be in constant learning mode
- Take feedback from people below, next to, far from & above you in the org chart & implement quickly
- Give feedback to people below, next to, far from & above you in the org chart & demand higher standards
- Speak candidly about what you see go right / wrong in the organization
- Constantly seek to increase your leverage over the organization so you can get more done in less time so you can move to higher-leverage work
- Be a cultural guardian & cheerleader of our values (Big Dreams, Speed, Aggression, Leadership, Mentorship, Intellectual Honesty, Diligence, Discipline, Growth)
- Report on your divisional progress to the other senior leaders
- Question & hold the other senior leaders in the company accountable, including the CEO
- Develop excellent relationship with people in the company
- Increase the standards with every subsequent person you hire & add to the team
- Fire those who were wrongly hired / no longer fit our performance & cultural standards
- Help your leaders craft & draft the dashboard mock-ups that deliver the right insights to show critical steps in achieving their goal and speed up time to understanding
- Give feedback to your leaders about their ability to communicate the progress & narrative of their department in an accurate and helpful way to you & the rest of the organization
- Constantly research & find opportunities to improve our LTV/CAC ratio
- Create a culture of creative & operational excellence in your division
- Be positive, critical & optimistic all at the same time without sacrificing either of the three
- Build forecasting models from the ground up with high levels of complexity & future-forward accuracy
- Design, maintain & optimize the meeting rhythms of the acquisition org with the aim of increasing leverage & improving time efficiency
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Direct Reports:
- Facebook Media buyer
- Affiliate Manager
- Creative Director
- Head of Amazon
- Head of Email
- Head of Google
- Head of ECOM Tech (Web Dev, Infra & Tools)
- HIRE: Head of Paid Media (Future)
- HIRE: Head of Conversion Rate Optimization (Future)
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Co-Senior Leaders:
- CEO (Reporting into)
- COO / President
- Director of Sales
- Director of Leadership Development
- Director of Data, Analytics & Technology
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Requirements:
- Work 80-100 hours / week (10 hours / day, 6 days a week = company minimum(
- Read a book every 2 weeks with the company (6-week cycle: 1. Departmental Expertise, 2. Leadership, 3. Personal Development) –
- Come in & create a 30-60-90d plan in your first week & review every month
- Host A Departmental book meeting with your division every 6 weeks (week in the cycle above)
- Attend 4x Quarterly Leadership Off-sites (international locations)
- Leverage AI to increase intelligence in decision making
- Leverage AI to automate PROVEN activities (we are not hiring Claude, we are hiring you)
- Role & Expectations get reviewed every 90 days
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Needed Wants:
- Have a core desire to achieve (a) personal BHAG(s) that align with the BHAGs of the organization, the role & the team you are stepping into
- Leverage AI to increase intelligence in decision making
- Leverage AI to automate PROVEN activities (don’t automate unproven ideas)
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Needed Not-wants:
- Not a salary-motivated person, but motivated by uncapped upside
- Not use AI to think for you (we are not hiring Claude, we are hiring you)
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Reward:
- $200K / Year
- Uncapped bonuses (ability to make $1M / year)
- Equity options after 2 years
- Dedicated Divisional Mentor for you & your Team
- Dedicated Personal Skill Mentor for you
- Dedicated Leadership mentor for you
- 2-4 Industry events / year
- Working in a company with a company that aligns with your values and actively seeks to prune grumblers
- The ride of a lifetime
If you are ready to go all in, APPLY NOW!