Creative Marketing Lead / Head of Creative Marketing

Our mission at Ello is simple and urgent: Maximize the potential of every child, everywhere.We’re building the world’s first AI teacher to close that gap: one that listens, speaks, adapts, and inspires, just like the best human educators.Our first product, Read with Ello, is already helping tens of thousands of kids each week learn to read. It listens as they read aloud, offers support when they stumble, and generates magical, personalized stories using generative AI. It works—and kids love it.Now, we’re scaling that success into something even bigger: a complete AI teacher for all children. We’re building a real-time learning platform—one that combines language, speech, and memory to power personalized, interactive education for kids worldwide. We’re moving fast: we ship weekly, test directly with kids and families, and push the boundaries of what AI can do in education.With the resources of the world's top investors and the heart of a public benefit corporation, we’re here to revolutionize how children learn globally. Featured on TIME’s Best Inventions and Fortune’s Change the World, Ello is a small, mission-driven team taking on one of the most important challenges of our time: to democratize education.About the RoleThis is a foundational creative leadership role that has high ownership.We’re looking for a Creative Marketing Lead (title/level dependent on experience) to own Ello’s creative output across brand, organic social, and awareness to fuel growth through great creative. This role is deeply hands-on. You’ll be writing, creating, concepting, and shipping work yourself — while also setting direction and managing contractors. If you’re energized by doing the work and shaping how creative drives growth, this is your sweet spot.This role does not include paid media strategy, or performance marketing. You’ll partner closely with a Performance Marketing Manager or agency who owns paid spend.Note on the title: this role is intentionally scoped with flexibility. We’re excited about candidates who are brilliant senior ICs as well as those who have operated at a more senior leadership level while still being deeply hands-on. What matters most to us is creative excellence, ownership, and drive.What You’ll OwnCreative direction and experimentation across growth channelsSourcing and managing freelancers, creators, and small agenciesDeveloping Ello’s brand voice and creative standards as we scaleOwning messaging and storytelling across Ello’s key surfaces (social, landing pages, campaigns)End-to-end creation of content: writing, concepting, scripting, and producingWho You AreA hands-on creative marketer — you still write, create, and ship regularlyStrong at storytelling and copywriting, with a clear point of viewExperienced collaborating with performance marketers without needing to own the channelComfortable moving fast, testing ideas, and iterating without perfect briefsExcited to focus on creative excellence rather than owning the full marketing stackDrawn to education, parenting, or mission-driven consumer productsRequirements5–10 years in creative, brand, content, or social marketingExperience launching campaigns or products at consumer or mission-driven brandsEvidence of recent hands-on creative work (not just managing agencies)About ElloEllo is a public benefit corporation on a mission to maximize the potential of all children. We’re currently around 48 people, headquartered in San Francisco with another office in Nairobi, Kenya.Our team has deep expertise in artificial intelligence, K-12 education, and child development across institutions such as Stanford, Berkeley, Google, Apple, and more. We were part of Y Combinator’s W20 batch and are funded by world-class investors, including Goodwater Capital, Homebrew, Reed Hastings, Common Sense Growth, Ravensburger, Project A Ventures, Reach Capital, Khosla Ventures, WndrCo, Visible Ventures, and K9 Ventures.We’re a small, collaborative team that takes each other’s voices seriousl ... (truncated, view full listing at source)