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Growth Acquisition Strategist

Somewhere

Fully Remote
📍 Johannesburg
🇿🇦 SA Friendly: 1.0/1.0

🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Somewhere is open to applicants from South Africa. The estimated monthly salary is R55,500 – R74,000 ZAR. This role is suited for senior-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

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Role:Growth Acquisition Strategist

Priority Location: Eastern Europe / South Africa

Working Hours: 8AM - 5PM CET

Salary Range: $3,000 – $4,000

Type of contract:Full-time

Type of job:Remote

About the company

Our client is one of Europe’s leading direct-to-consumer baby brands, supporting parents through thoughtfully designed products and an exceptional e-commerce experience. As the company expands its international footprint, paid acquisition across Meta and Google has become one of its most vital growth drivers.

They are seeking a highly analytical yet creative marketer who can bridge the gap between media buying and creative strategy. This individual will play a key role in accelerating campaign velocity, boosting performance, and creating a more efficient workflow between performance marketing and content production.

About the RoleOur e-commerce works today and it is profitable, but it is standing still. We have a machine that executes well — website, email, content produced together with an in-house influencer team across four markets — and what we are missing is someone who defines the acquisition strategy: which needs we speak to, with which messages, to which audiences, and how all of it holds together from the ad to the page to the email.This is a role to build, not to maintain. Whoever joins will find a channel with healthy margins, clean data, and no legacy structure to dismantle.

Key Responsibilities
* Mapping customer needs, triggers and objections for every product and every market,and turning them into a living, actively used library of communication angles
* Building the creative production system: from the script, to the content request tocreators, to editing, to going live
* Making the whole funnel coherent: the promise in the ad, the landing page and theemail sequence all tell the same story
* Governing the agency that currently runs Meta and Google, and leading the move to in-house media buying
* Allocating advertising budget across markets based on the profitability of each
* Growing customer value over time, not just acquiring customers: automated flows,repeat purchase, entry offer
* Building the entry thesis for the US market: positioning, angles and messaging for the2027 relaunch, together with the channel owner
* Giving the company a weekly read on acquisition, conversion and retentionThe role is not accountable for the technical build of the site, the pages and the email flows —those stay with the E-commerce Manager, with whom this role works as a pair. It is notaccountable for brand tone of voice, which stays with the Brand Manager.
Essential Requirements
* 3-7 years in growth or performance marketing roles on DTC e-commerce, with ownership of strategy and not only execution
* Having already built a library of angles and a creative production process: this is the requirement that weighs most. We ask candidates to show it during the process.
* Writing: able to write persuasive scripts and messaging, and able to judge copy working with native speakers even in languages they do not speak
* Thinks in terms of margin: MER, CAC, contribution margin. Able to read a P&L and tell the difference between a campaign that sells and a campaign that makes money
* Experience across multiple European markets, not a single country
* Able to get work done through people who do not report to them
* Fluent English
Nice to have
* Experience launching or scaling in the US market
* Experience moving media buying from an agency in-house
* Categories where trust matters: baby care, health, cosmetics, supplements
* Having worked with influencer and creator content as the raw material for campaigns
* Familiarity with Shopify and Klaviyo

Tips for South African Applicants

Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

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Salary in Context

At R55,500/month, this role pays well above the average South African remote salary. The USD equivalent ($3,000/mo) benefits from the favourable exchange rate.

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Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

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Load Shedding Preparedness

If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.

About Somewhere

Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 828 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →