Full-Time

Growth Manager

Activation

Posted on 7/19/2025

State Affairs

State Affairs

51-200 employees

Nonpartisan investigative journalism on state government

Compensation Overview

$166k - $183k/yr

No H1B Sponsorship

San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: Miami, FL, USA

Hybrid

Candidates must work at least 4 days per week in the office.

Category
Growth & Marketing (1)
Required Skills
Amplitude
Product Management
BigQuery
SQL
Segment
Marketing
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business Administration, Statistics, or Mathematics
  • 3+ years of professional work experience in product growth, product management, or growth marketing
  • Prior professional work experience building a SaaS or subscription-based product
  • Prior professional work experience driving product-led growth (PLG) initiatives — onboarding, trials, freemium conversion, etc.
  • Ability to collaborate across product, sales, marketing, and engineering teams
  • Ability to communicate effectively to various stakeholders
  • Ability to operate growth experiments (A/B tests, cohort retention, funnel optimization)
  • Ability to be analytical and operate tools such as Pendo, Metabase, Amplitude, Segment, GA4, BigQuery or SQL
Responsibilities
  • Drive self-serve and trial conversion: Optimize onboarding, activation, and upgrade funnels for customers who start with free trials or single-state access.
  • Run growth experiments: Design and execute A/B tests and experiments across signup, product usage, pricing, and messaging.
  • Increase product-led revenue: Identify levers to increase adoption of multi-state or enterprise access among users starting on single-state plans.
  • Collaborate across teams: Work with the State Affairs product to shape features that improve activation and retention; work with sales to qualify and convert high-intent users into enterprise customers.
  • Build analytics and tracking: Define KPIs and implement dashboards to track activation, conversion, retention, and expansion across customer segments.
  • Segment and personalize: Use behavioral and firmographic data to create personalized flows for news consumers, policy professionals, and enterprise buyers.
  • Support enterprise growth: Partner with sales and customer success to generate product-led leads and build in-product features that drive upsells.
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior professional experience working in civic tech, govtech, or public policy
  • Knowledge of the B2B or enterprise sales funnel
  • Knowledge of subscription models across multiple tiers or user types (e.g., team plans, per-seat pricing, content gating)
  • Prior professional work experience in a start-up organization

State Affairs delivers in-depth, nonpartisan reporting on state government and public policy through a subscription-based web platform. It offers long-form investigations and data-driven articles on topics like education, healthcare, crime, and infrastructure, explaining how state decisions are made and how funds are spent. It distinguishes itself by focusing on state-level governance and funding journalism through subscriptions rather than ads, ensuring independence. Its goal is to inform citizens and policymakers, aid accountability, and support informed public discussion about state public affairs.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Atlanta, Georgia

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Florida bureau launch on February 2 expands national footprint rapidly.
  • Tennessee Journal acquisition enables cross-state subscriber cross-selling.
  • $23.5M revenue supports scaling into Texas, California, New York markets.

What critics are saying

  • ProPublica free reporting diverts subscribers within 6-12 months.
  • Axios Pro AI scoops erode bill tracking users in 3-6 months.
  • Night Ventures cuts funding, closes Florida bureau in 12-18 months.

What makes State Affairs unique

  • Hires veteran journalists Dara Kam and Jim Saunders for Florida bureau.
  • Acquires The Tennessee Journal to consolidate state political news.
  • Integrates AI-powered legislative and regulatory tracking tools.

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Benefits

Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

-1%
The Associated Press
Feb 2nd, 2026
State Affairs launches Florida bureau with veteran statehouse journalists

State Affairs, a nonpartisan news platform covering state governments, has launched a Florida bureau in Tallahassee with veteran journalists Dara Kam and Jim Saunders. Kam joins as senior statehouse reporter, whilst Saunders becomes managing editor. The bureau, which opened on 2 February, will provide in-depth coverage of Florida's government and politics. Both journalists bring decades of experience covering the state Legislature, courts, elections and governors. Kam's podcast "Between the Lines With Dara Kam" will air every Monday morning. The bureau will publish a daily newsletter called The Florida Files. State Affairs combines on-the-ground statehouse reporting with AI-powered legislative and regulatory tools. Editor-in-chief Alison Bethel said the expansion reflects the platform's vision to grow its national footprint with independent journalism.

Office of the Utah Attorney General
Jan 8th, 2024
AGO Joins Brief to Protect Gender Privacy Rights

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief, led by the States of Indiana and Alabama, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Roe v. Critchfield.

Nashville Post
Oct 11th, 2023
Tennessee political news outlet acquired by national startup

The Tennessee Journal, a longtime state government news publication aimed at lobbyists, lawmakers and political insiders, has been acquired by State Affairs, a 2021-founded collection of subscription publications delivering political news in several states.

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