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title: 'Growth Marketing Lead at Jito Foundation'
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# Growth Marketing Lead at Jito Foundation

- **Company:** Jito Foundation
- **Location:** North, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/jito/e7f3b33a-d707-45f3-b238-2b447f9473d2

## Job description

## About the role

JTX is Jito's consumer trading app on Solana. It launched in July 2026 and is Jito’s first consumer product. As our growth marketer, you own the measurable side of how users find, activate, and stay with JTX: paid acquisition, lifecycle and email, and the experimentation program that ties them together. Our marketing team is exceptional with brand, creative, social and events. You will own the other half, the performance side: acquisition channels and their budgets, lifecycle email, attribution and tracking, and the numbers that tell us which spend is working. The team gets people interested; you make sure we know who actually funds a wallet, places a first trade and keeps trading, what it cost to get them there, and what to do more or less of next. You won't make the creative, but your readouts will shape what gets made.

Existing systems are in place but need an experienced owner. The first task is assuming responsibility for all existing systems (customer.io, semrush, etc.). The second immediate task is building more robust measurement layer that captures all current efforts, including referral programs and content creators. You will be the most senior analytical marketer here, working hand in hand with our Head of Marketing on strategy and with our creative and content leads on messaging, bringing the rigor and operational discipline that turns great creative into measurable results.

## What you'll do

- Lifecycle and email: Own the program end to end: calendar, segmentation, automated flows (onboarding, activation, reactivation), deliverability, compliance and reporting.

- Experimentation: Run a disciplined A/B testing program across email, landing pages, ads and onboarding, with a hypothesis, sample size, and written explanation for every test. Regular readouts of what is working and what is not that will drive creative decisions.

- Measurement: In partnership with our Data Scientists, build and maintain the growth dashboard covering acquisition → signup → activation → retention → trading volume, by channel and cohort. Own attribution UTM standards, pixel and event configuration (PostHog, Google Analytics, X) with Product and Engineering. Our data team owns the warehouse and dashboards, you will be responsible for making sure the data that flows into those dashboards is reliable.

- Paid acquisition: Plan, launch, and optimize paid campaigns across the channels that work for a crypto consumer product. Own budget allocation, CAC and payback targets, and creative testing cadence, operating within the constraints of platform crypto advertising policies. You will be the primary point of contact for advertising partners. Paid acquisition is currently small and experimental. It should grow based on performance and ROI review but will remain only one tool in our broad marketing efforts.

- Marketing systems and documentation: Ownership of the marketing technology stack including vendor selection, relationship management and documenting everything we use.

- Spend governance: Own the LTV:CAC framework that decides where we invest. Build and maintain cohort-based LTV models (by channel, acquisition period, and user segment) using trader fees, retention data, and set the CAC and payback targets against them. Define the performance gates for scaling or discontinuing channels, and run regular LTV:CAC and ROI reviews with the Head of Marketing and leadership team.

- Launch operations: Run checks on every campaign so links, segments, tracking, and compliance requirements are right before anything ships.

- Insights loop: Turn results into a weekly report of what to scale and what to cut, and feed those learnings into creative briefs so the whole team gets sharper.

## Requirements

## What we're looking for

- 6-8+ years in growth, performance, or lifecycle marketing at a consumer product
- Consumer fintech, brokerage or trading experience strongly preferred

- Hands-on paid acquisition experience, including budget ownership and channel-level optimization

- Hands-on with an ESP/CRM (Customer.io, Braze, Klaviyo, or similar)

- Strong analytical skills: Product analytics (Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar), and statistical literacy around experimentation

- Exceptional attention to detail and a process mindset; you're the person who catches the broken link before it ships and you build processes others can run
- Comfortable building systems from scratch in a fast-moving startup
- Clear written communication; you can explain data to non-analysts

Strongly preferred

- Experience in crypto, especially at a centralized exchange or trading platform (Coinbase, OKX, or similar), including running paid and lifecycle within crypto advertising restrictions and compliance review
- Familiarity with Solana or onchain analytics
- Understanding of referral and affiliate program measurement

Coming from a strong web2 growth background? Apply anyway. We'll teach you the domain.

## About Jito Foundation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jito Foundation promotes the adoption of Jito Network products, including JitoSOL (Solana’s leading liquid staking protocol) and the MEV infrastructure suite used by top Solana validators.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded by a16z crypto; $50M total funding as of November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (the Foundation was established by Jito Labs; individual founder names not disclosed in public sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Liquid Staking, Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) infrastructure, Solana blockchain ecosystem
- **Target customers**: B2B (Solana validators, DeFi protocols, institutional stakers) and B2C (individual SOL stakers seeking liquidity and yield)
- **Mission**: To facilitate the growth of the Jito Network through decentralized governance by JTO token holders, ensuring transparent MEV distribution and efficient staking infrastructure for the Solana ecosystem.

## Products & Services
- **JitoSOL**: A non-custodial liquid staking token that allows users to stake any amount of SOL and receive auto-compounded rewards amplified by MEV, while maintaining liquidity.
- **Jito MEV Infrastructure**: A suite of tools (including the Jito Block Engine) that enables validators to capture MEV in a transparent, permissionless manner, maximizing rewards and improving network efficiency.
- **Jito Network Governance**: A DAO governed by JTO token holders, with the ability to adjust protocol parameters, manage treasury grants, and approve Jito Improvement Proposals (JIPs). A Security Council provides emergency oversight.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$50M** (led by a16z crypto, November 2025) – the protocol manages billions in staked assets
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: a16z crypto (lead investor), plus a broad network of Solana validators and DeFi protocols
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **128.6% YoY** (LinkedIn reports 10 employees; trulyremotework.com reports ~30 employees – conflicting figures). The JitoSOL protocol is the largest DeFi protocol on Solana by total value staked.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Critical Solana infrastructure**: JitoSOL and the MEV engine are deeply integrated into Solana’s validator ecosystem, creating high switching costs.
- **Liquid staking + MEV yield**: Unique combination of liquid staking with MEV rewards, offering superior yields for stakers.
- **Governance token (JTO)**: Empowers token holders to steer protocol evolution, fostering community ownership and alignment.
- **Flat, autonomous culture**: Small team with high ownership, enabling rapid execution and deep ecosystem ties.

## Strategic Focus
- Improve Solana validator decentralization and MEV distribution.
- Expand from staking and MEV into restaking and other DeFi primitives.
- Maintain transparent, open-source MEV infrastructure.
- Strengthen governance through the DAO and Security Council.

## Why Work Here
- **Work environment**: Fully remote, worldwide with no country restrictions. Must be willing to attend regular EST meetings. High autonomy – team members own their domain end-to-end.
- **Culture**: Flat, lean, and relentlessly effective. Emphasis on empowering multi-talented self-starters. The “Propose Your Dream Job” hiring approach invites candidates to define their own role to drive value for the ecosystem.
- **Compensation**: Competitive USD salary plus JTO token compensation.
- **Tech stack**: Rust, Solana, TypeScript, Python, Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Anchor.
- **Impact**: Work on Solana’s leading liquid staking protocol with direct influence on ecosystem growth and validator performance.

## Sources
1. [lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/jito)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/jito-foundation)
3. [jito.network](https://www.jito.network/docs/governance/constitution-of-the-jito-foundation/)
4. [trulyremotework.com](https://trulyremotework.com/companies/jito-foundation)

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