Happy Money

Happy Money

Head of Acquisition Marketing

Remote, USA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$165k-$220kDetected 23 days ago
Agentic AIA/B TestingPerformance MarketingLead GenerationForecasting

About the role

  • Brand evolution will be sequenced as loan growth scales and investment capacity expands.
  • At Happy Money we expect leaders to be a player-coach.
  • This role will need to set strategy and roll up your sleeves to execute.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end acquisition strategy and deployment, driving scalable, profitable growth for our personal loan business.
  • Deeply understand and anticipate market trends, competitive dynamics, VOC and channel shifts, and translate them into credible strategies and tactics that create durable competitive advantage.
  • Develop and scale performance marketing strategy across multi-channel initiatives (direct mail, lead-gen email, affiliate, digital, content) and make high-quality expense allocation decisions grounded in how the business makes money, managing to optimize CAC, and unit economics.
  • Own consolidated forecasting, budget pacing, and performance reporting
  • partner with Finance on monthly forecasts, land results within tolerance, and establish standardized planning, documentation, and post-campaign reporting frameworks.
  • Communicate complex issues, tradeoffs, and recommendations into clear and compelling narratives that drive aligned decisions across the organization from analysts to senior leadership.
  • Build and lead a high-accountability function defined by clear priorities, disciplined execution, and a culture that moves with urgency and discipline to deliver consistently exceptional results.
  • Hire, develop, and mentor a team of high-performing growth marketers and assemble the right mix of internal talent, agency/partner resources, and AI agents, knowing when and how to leverage each.
  • Drive go-to-market, brand, and product marketing through strong value articulation, competitive positioning, and messaging for net-new customer acquisition.
  • Act as a subject-matter expert on emerging martech, AI, and attribution, and on product features and cross-sell opportunities that drive growth and revenue.

Nice to have

  • 10+ years of experience in marketing and customer acquisition, overseeing significant budgets that tie directly to revenue targets, plus 5+ years leading marketing teams.
  • Consumer Lending or complementary experience, including a track record of scaling credit or lending products and managing acquisition funnels.
  • Sharp thinking and rigor in debating ideas
  • comfort with complexity, ambiguity, and pushback
  • and a deeply data-focused, test-and-learn mindset that generates ideas by connecting across disciplines and data.

Compensation

  • $165,000 - $220,000 USD

Benefits

  • Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance options
  • Eligible for annual bonus & long-term incentives
  • Generous PTO including sick leave, vacation, volunteer, and more
  • 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
  • Company-paid short & long term disability and life insurance
  • Foster a relentless "test and learn" culture by applying rigorous logic and honest analysis, challenging assumptions, and learning quickly from both wins and failures to continuously sharpen the approach.
  • Monthly tech stipend to help cover expenses for remote work

Company info

  • Happy Money is a consumer finance company that empowers people to achieve their goals through simple, transparent loans funded by trusted financial institutions.
  • Through its proprietary lending platform, Hive, Happy Money delivers a fully digital experience that simplifies borrowing for consumers and helps credit unions, banks and asset managers diversify balance sheets and scale with confidence.
  • Happy Money's end-to-end loan origination and participation programs provide partners with turnkey access to high-performing assets, underpinned by disciplined credit expertise and robust risk management.
  • Together with its lending partners, Happy Money has originated more than $6.5 billion in loans to help nearly 350,000 people take greater control of their financial futures.
  • Learn more at happymoney.com.
  • Happy Money is a 100% fully distributed company.
  • Remote work doesn't mean less work, we work full-time jobs and show up to them fully every day.
  • To learn more about our values and the way we work, review our Happy Money Way Overview!

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