Founding DTC Growth Marketing Manager, Silvie
PontosenseToronto, Ontario
Full-time
$100k to $150k/yr CAD
Posted Sep 28, 2026
About the role
Marketing | Toronto or Waterloo, Ontario (Hybrid)
Full-time | Reports to the CEO Base Salary: $100,000-$150,000 CAD
Find what drives growth. Build it, test it, and scale it.
About Silvie
Silvie is the first consumer product from Pontosense, whose sensing technology is already deployed in 24 countries.
A small sensor on the wall detects falls and tracks sleep, health, and wellness, with no cameras, wearables, or pendants. There is nothing to charge and nothing to remember.
Families get peace of mind. Older adults maintain their independence and dignity.
We're bringing advanced sensing technology into everyday homes and helping define a new category in aging and wellness.
Why Now
Silvie launches nationally in January 2027\. We're moving from early customer validation toward building a scalable direct-to-consumer business.
We have proven technology, an established B2B business, and an emerging consumer brand. Now we need someone who can discover and build a repeatable growth engine.
The biggest questions are still ahead of us: Which customers should we prioritize? What motivates them to buy? Which channels can acquire them efficiently? How do we turn early traction into sustainable growth?
We're looking for someone who can answer those questions through customer understanding, strategic thinking, and hands-on experimentation.
The Role
You'll own Silvie's DTC growth strategy and execution, with a primary focus on customer acquisition and conversion.
You'll identify growth opportunities, prioritize customer segments and channels, develop hypotheses, and run experiments to discover what works.
This is not a role focused solely on optimizing an existing marketing playbook. You'll help build that playbook.
You'll work directly with the CEO, Head of Brand and Marketing, and Product team. Our Brand team owns brand positioning and identity. Your responsibility is to translate customer insights and brand direction into measurable growth.
We need someone who can think strategically, make independent decisions, and stay hands-on enough to prove their own ideas.
This is an individual contributor role with significant ownership and the opportunity to build and lead a growth team as Silvie scales.
What You'll Own
1\. Growth Strategy & Prioritization
Identify and prioritize high-potential customer segments based on customer insights, market opportunities, and performance data.
Understand what motivates customers to purchase, what holds them back, and how to reach them effectively.
Develop a DTC acquisition strategy and determine which channels, audiences, and experiments deserve investment.
Make clear decisions about what to test, what to stop, and what to scale.
Continuously refine the growth strategy based on real customer behavior and business outcomes.
2\. Hands-on Customer Acquisition
Build, launch, and optimize acquisition campaigns, with strong hands-on ownership of paid acquisition.
Experiment with additional channels such as organic content, SEO and AI search, creators, partnerships, and referrals.
Develop and test audience targeting, messaging angles, creative hypotheses, and offers in collaboration with Brand.
Identify and build repeatable, cost-effective acquisition channels.
Work with creative and external specialists where needed while maintaining direct ownership of performance.
3\. Conversion & Funnel Optimization
Own conversion performance from first discovery through purchase.
Identify funnel friction and opportunities through analytics and customer insights.
Run experiments across landing pages, messaging, pricing, offers, and checkout.
Partner with Product and Customer Success on activation, onboarding, retention, and referrals.
Focus on improving the overall customer journey, not just driving more traffic.
4\. Analytics & Experimentation
Define and track key growth metrics, including CAC, conversion rate, customer acquisition, and channel ROI.
Build clear, reliable reporting to understand what drives growth.
Establish a consistent experimentation process with measurable hypotheses, results, and learnings.
Use data to prioritize resources and guide growth investments.
Turn successful experiments into scalable processes and repeatable results.
What Year One Looks Like
We've identified our highest-potential customer segments and understand their purchase motivations and barriers.
We have a clear acquisition strategy supported by customer insights and performance data.
At least one or two acquisition channels demonstrate repeatable, scalable potential.
CAC and conversion performance are measured, understood, and improving.
We've established an effective experimentation rhythm and scaled successful initiatives.
Our next growth stage is based on proven opportunities and real data, rather than assumptions.
This Is for You If
You've helped grow a consumer product, DTC brand, app, or subscription business, with measurable acquisition or revenue results.
You've independently identified growth opportunities and developed strategies, rather than only executing someone else's plans.
You understand how to identify customer segments, analyze purchase motivations, and prioritize acquisition channels.
You have strong hands-on experience in paid acquisition, conversion optimization, and performance analytics.
You can independently launch campaigns, run experiments, interpret results, and improve performance.
You're comfortable making decisions with limited data and refining your approach as you learn.
You understand growth economics, including CAC, conversion, retention, and customer lifetime value.
You've worked in an early-stage or fast-growing environment and enjoy building from scratch.
You can move naturally between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
Bonus Points If You Have
Built an acquisition channel from zero to meaningful scale.
Worked on a consumer hardware, health, wellness,…
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