Growth Marketing Lead - Vertical

You will be based in our SF or NYC office and will be required to be in office 3x/week.

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

If you've heard of Rippling, you may know us as an HR company. But that's only part of the story. Since Day One, we've invested heavily in the ability to build, market, and sell multiple products to multiple buyers. This "secret sauce" has unlocked massive growth for Rippling—as one of the fastest-growing startups we're well on our way to building a single platform for companies to manage all of their business operations.

Rippling connects payroll, compliance, IT, spend, and workforce operations in one system. In some industries, those problems are tightly linked, and that is where we have the strongest right to win. Our Verticals team builds industry-specific go-to-market motions for those markets, and each one needs a growth engine that brings the right companies into the top of the funnel.

As our Growth Marketing Lead for Verticals, you'll own top-of-funnel growth for new logo acquisition in our priority industries. That covers paid media, owned channels, industry channels (associations, events, and partners), SDR positioning, and experimental growth plays, all measured against one number: qualified pipeline by vertical. You'll partner with the Director of Audience GTM to turn that strategy into pipeline. You'll architect the acquisition plan for each industry, deploy budget across the mix, shape how SDRs position Rippling to each vertical's buyers, and run a high-velocity experimentation program that shows us where to invest more.

We're looking for a multi-channel operator who has run the full growth stack at a high-growth B2B company and has taken that playbook into specific industries. You can move between building paid campaigns, writing outbound sequences, scaling owned channels, and shipping scrappy growth hacks, and you know how buyers, channels, and language change from one industry to the next. If you've built acquisition programs for vertical markets from scratch and scaled them to meaningful pipeline, we'd love to chat.

What you will do

• Own ambitious pipeline targets for new logo acquisition in each priority vertical. You set the channel strategy and budget by industry, and you own the number.
• Direct and run paid acquisition hands-on: search, social, display, and ABM built around industry-specific audiences, keywords, and firmographic targeting, optimized for pipeline quality and CAC efficiency in each vertical.
• Shape SDR outbound strategy for each vertical: define industry ICPs, the personas and titles that buy, messaging frameworks built on each industry's pain points, and sequencing. 
• Build and scale owned and industry channels: work with SEO teams to launch vertical landing pages and SEO, email and lifecycle, content, webinars, customer stories, and referral programs, plus the channels each industry already trusts, such as trade associations, industry events, publications, communities, and vertical software partners.
• Run a high-velocity experimentation program across verticals. Test new industries, channels, and partnerships with small bets, read the signal fast, and give leadership clear evidence on which verticals to scale and which to cut. Share learnings, kill losers fast, and scale winners.
• Deploy a multi-million dollar budget across online and offline channels, shifting spend toward the industries and channels with the strongest pipeline ROI.
• Turn vertical strategy into an execution plan with the Vertical marketing team. You build the channel plan, pipeline targets, and budget for each one, and report back on which verticals are showing pull.
• Brief and coordinate execution partners. Work with Product Marketing on industry messaging and proof points, Content and Creative on vertical assets, Field and Events on industry events, and Growth on paid media and sponsorships. You set the timelines and hold partners to shared pipeline goals.
• Close the loop with Sales and RevOps. Run a weekly review with SDR leadership and Enablement on lead quality and conversion by vertical. Work with RevOps on industry tagging, routing, and attribution so pipeline, win rate, and message resonance are reported by vertical.
• Coordinate with the core New Logo Growth team. Agree on audience splits, shared channels, and budget so the two programs avoid bidding against each other or contacting the same accounts twice, and share what each team learns.
• Innovate beyond typical B2B playbooks. Find novel ways to use AI and other tools to personalize acquisition by industry and unlock scale.

What you will need

• 6-8+ years of growth marketing experience with demonstrated ownership across paid, owned, AND outbound/SDR enablement, including meaningful time running acquisition into vertical markets.
• You've personally built and scaled multi-channel acquisition programs from scratch that drove measurable pipeline in specific industries or vertical segments.
• Hands-on experience shaping SDR outbound strategy for industry buyers: messaging, sequencing, ICP and persona definition, and channel selection. You write sequences in each industry's language that convert.
• Experience reaching buyers through industry channels such as trade associations, events, publications, and partner ecosystems, and judging which ones produce pipeline.
• Strong experimentation DNA. You've run high volumes of tests, understand statistical rigor (including how to read results from smaller vertical audiences), and can spot high-leverage bets quickly.
• Analytical and technical—comfortable in SQL, BI tools, and marketing automation. You build your own dashboards and don't wait for someone to pull data.
• Proven track record of managing meaningful paid budgets with clear accountability to pipeline and revenue outcomes, not just lead volume.
• Incredible writing skills. You can write ads, emails, and outbound copy that convert and sound credible to an operator in a specific industry.
• Self-starter with a bias toward action who thrives in high-velocity, ambiguous environments. You move fast and figure things out independently.
• Strong ownership mentality; you take maximum accountability for performance and can clearly communicate performance drivers to cross-functional teams and execs.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [email protected]

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.