--- title: 'User Acquisition Manager (Performance) at Recraft' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/user-acquisition-manager-performance-recraft-remote-16gx9nwcn76n' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # User Acquisition Manager (Performance) at Recraft - **Company:** Recraft - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/recraft/d4d96e8f-1a2e-44ed-ad40-4125b66045b8 ## Job description ## ABOUT US Founded in the US in 2022 and now based in London, UK, Recraft is an AI tool for professional designers, illustrators, and marketers, setting a new standard for excellence in image generation. We designed a tool that lets creators quickly generate and iterate original images, vector art, illustrations, icons, and 3D graphics with AI. Over 3 million users across 190+ countries have produced hundreds of millions of images using Recraft, and we're just getting started. Join a universe of professional opportunities, develop and support large-scale projects, and shape the future of creativity. We are committed to making Recraft an essential, daily tool for every designer and setting the industry standard. Our mission is to ensure that creators can fully control their creative process with AI, providing them with innovative tools to turn ideas into reality. If you’re passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI, we want you on board! ## JOB DESCRIPTION Growth at Recraft is a numbers problem before it's a brand problem. We're looking for a UA Manager who owns paid acquisition end to end: setting up the channels, scaling spend without breaking payback, and knowing which lever moved the number. This is a hands-in-the-accounts role, not an agency-management one — and for the right person, a chance to build the performance marketing engine at Recraft from scratch and scale it toward $1M/month. One thing to know about the model, because it shapes the job: we don't run a free trial. New users get a pack of free credits, and once they need more, the only way forward is a paid subscription. That means conversion often happens on day one, and the numbers that matter are free-to-paid conversion rate, renewal, and payback by cohort — not trial starts. ## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Own paid user acquisition on Meta first — account structure, targeting, bidding, budget pacing, and daily optimization. Meta is where the majority of the budget sits and where we expect the majority of your time to go. - Open and scale the next channels as Meta matures: Google (Search, PMax, YouTube, App) and TikTok. - Scale monthly spend aggressively while holding CAC, ROAS, and cohort payback targets. Growth without payback discipline doesn't count. - Build what isn't there yet: tracking, attribution, naming conventions, dashboards, and reporting — so decisions are made on data everyone trusts. - Own subscription economics, not vanity metrics: free-to-paid conversion, day-one subscription rate, renewal and churn by month, ARPPU, and LTV by cohort and by channel. - Run a structured testing cadence on audiences, placements, bidding, and offers — and brief creative based on what the data says, working directly with our Creative Designer. - Automate the repetitive parts of the job — reporting, pacing, anomaly alerts, creative rotation — using Claude and platform APIs, so your time goes to decisions rather than spreadsheets. - Forecast and plan budget, and report weekly on spend, CAC, and payback to marketing and leadership. ## WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH You'll join the Marketing team and work closely with our Performance Marketing Manager, Creative Designer, and the analytics and product teams. This is a role built around owning a number and bringing your own plan for hitting it, not executing someone else's media plan. ## REQUIREMENTS - 4+ years in user acquisition or performance marketing for a consumer subscription product — app, web, or both. - Deep, hands-on Meta expertise. You've run Meta as a primary acquisition channel at meaningful spend, built the account structure yourself, and can explain how you handled the moments where scaling stopped working. - You've managed a paid budget of at least $100k/month and can walk us through what CAC and payback did as you scaled it. - Experience setting up performance marketing from scratch — accounts, pixels and server-side events, MMP/SKAN or GA4, attribution logic, and reporting. - Fluency in subscription economics: free-to-paid conversion, renewal and churn, ARPPU, LTV:CAC, and cohort payback. Comfortable pulling your own numbers in a BI tool, with basic SQL. - Comfortable using AI in your daily workflow — analysis, reporting, and automation — rather than treating it as a side experiment. - Based in the EU, Georgia, Armenia, or Serbia, with the right to work as a contractor there. ## NICE TO HAVE - A track record of scaling paid spend to around $1M/month. This is a significant plus and would move a candidate to the top of the list. We know it's rare, which is why it sits here rather than in requirements. - Experience with a credit, token, or usage-based subscription — a model where conversion is driven by hitting a limit rather than by a trial expiring. - Hands-on experience beyond Meta — Google (Search, PMax, YouTube, App), TikTok, or Apple Search Ads. Strength in a second channel counts for a lot; all of them is not something we expect. - Experience in the photo, video, or creative-tools segment (Canva, Picsart, Photoroom, VSCO, CapCut-adjacent products) — or another consumer subscription category with hard payback math, such as fitness, health, or education. - Real experience using Claude or other LLMs to manage and automate performance campaigns: bulk edits, budget pacing scripts, automated creative and cohort reporting. - Both web and app funnel experience, including web-to-app flows and web paywalls (Stripe, Paddle, or similar). - Incrementality testing, geo-lift — anything that shows you're skeptical of platform-reported numbers. - Ad copywriting — able to write your own hooks and headlines instead of waiting on a brief. - In-house experience at a product company rather than purely agency-side work. - You're already a Recraft user. ## WHAT WE OFFER - A full-time contractor engagement, fully remote, with compensation that matches the seniority and ownership this role carries. - Real ownership of the acquisition budget and the targets attached to it — you set the plan, you spend the money, you own the result. - A product built on AI image and video generation, growing fast, where your work has a direct, measurable line to company revenue. - The chance to define what performance marketing looks like at Recraft — the structure and playbook you build is what everyone after you works from. - An environment where automating your own job with AI is encouraged, not viewed with suspicion. - Direct collaboration with our Performance Marketing, Creative, analytics, and product teams. - A team that means it when it says it wants to build the best product in the category — people who give each other direct, useful feedback, share context openly, and step in to help without being asked. ## About Recraft ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Recraft builds a premium AI image generation and editing platform designed specifically for professional designers, marketers, and teams to create brand-consistent, high-quality visuals. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom (also has offices in San Francisco, California, United States) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Anna Veronika Dorogush (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Graphic Design / AI Image Generation - **Target customers**: B2B (professional designers, illustrators, marketers, creative teams at enterprises such as Amazon, NVIDIA, Salesforce) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “To ensure that creators can have full control over their creative process with AI, providing them with innovative tools to turn ideas into reality.” (Source: [recraft.ai/about](https://www.recraft.ai/about)) ## Products & Services - **Recraft V3 (AI Image Generator)**: Core foundation model for generating high-quality images, vector art, illustrations, icons, and 3D graphics. Excels at prompt understanding, text rendering, and consistent brand style without training. - **Vector Generator**: Generates complex, editable vector graphics—a unique capability in the image generation market. - **Mockup Generator**: Creates product mockups with precise control over layout and elements. - **Image Upscaler / Background Remover / AI Eraser / Image Vectorizer**: Standard editing tools integrated into the platform. - **Infinite Canvas with Real-Time Collaboration**: Allows teams to work together on design projects. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed; total funding is **$42M** (Series A: $12M in Jan 2024 led by Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman; Series B: $30M in May 2025 led by Accel with participation from Khosla Ventures and Madrona). - **Key Metric**: - Annual Revenue: **$9M** (estimated by LinkedIn) OR **$5M ARR** (stated by TechCrunch as recently passed). - Users: **5M+** (LinkedIn) or **4M** (TechCrunch); **350M+** images generated (early 2025). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Khosla Ventures, Madrona, Nat Friedman. Trusted by designers at Ogilvy, HubSpot, Netflix, Asana, Airbus, Amazon, NVIDIA, Salesforce. - **Growth Signals**: - Employee headcount: 44 (up 34.1% YoY). - Traffic: ~1.8M monthly visits (bounce rate 0.4%, 3.7 pages/visit). - LinkedIn followers: 8,738 (+87.6% yearly growth). - First AI image generation company to earn AIUC certification (AI image certification). ## Competitive Advantages - **Own Foundation Models**: Recraft builds its own models from scratch (not wrappers), competing directly with Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion, and Black Forest Labs. - **Brand Consistency**: Can generate images that maintain exact brand styles (logos, colors, fonts) without fine-tuning or extra editing—critical for graphic design workflows. - **Vector & Typography Mastery**: Unique ability to generate editable vector art and place text of any size/length precisely, solving a pain point for designers. - **Benchmark Leadership**: Its model (codename “red_panda”, later known as V3) topped the Artificial Analysis benchmark, beating DALL-E and Midjourney. - **Founding Team Expertise**: Founder and CEO Anna Veronika Dorogush led ML teams at Yandex (Russian Google competitor); team includes top talent from Yandex, Miro, Huawei, and other tech companies. ## Strategic Focus - Continue to make Recraft an essential daily tool for every professional designer. - Push the frontier of generative AI for graphic design, with emphasis on full creative control, structured output, and production-ready visuals. - Expand reach to larger enterprises and deepen integrations with existing design workflows (Canva-competitive positioning). - Maintain model-first approach to stay ahead in quality and capabilities. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Mission**: “Model-first company” building foundational AI; strong emphasis on engineering excellence and mission-critical work. Founder Anna Veronika Dorogush (solo female CEO) brings a unique background (professional model turned ML engineer) and values focused effort over grinding. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office presence in London (HQ) and San Francisco. The team is small (44 people) with a flat structure—heavy focus on technical roles (20% technical, 9% research). Talent sources include Yandex, Miro, Adobe, and Meta. - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but early-stage growth mode suggests hands-on impact, ownership, and exposure to cutting-edge AI. - **Engineering Culture**: Strong research and engineering backbone (5 researchers, 11 technical staff); opportunity to work on novel image generation models from scratch. ## Sources 1. [recraft.ai/about](https://www.recraft.ai/about) 2. [recraft.ai](https://www.recraft.ai/) 3. [linkedin.com/company/recraftai](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/recraftai) 4. [techcrunch.com – “A stealth AI model beat DALL-E and Midjourney…”](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/a-stealth-ai-model-beat-dall-e-and-midjourney-on-a-popular-benchmark-its-creator-just-landed-30m/) 5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/recraft](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/recraft) ## Other roles at Recraft - [AI Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/ai-designer-recraft-remote-m0w40p41qsrz) - [Performance Creative Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/performance-creative-designer-recraft-remote-e2jshswqygqz) - [Account Executive, API — Mid-Market & Enterprise](https://feeny.ai/job/account-executive-api-mid-market-enterprise-recraft-london-me56zzt298eq) — London, United Kingdom - [Senior / Staff ML Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-ml-engineer-recraft-london-2jb91wg9mpnf) — London, United Kingdom