At Epic Tales we create personalized stories that draw families closer and spark every child's lifelong love of reading. Each book is printed-to-order with the child as the hero—turning story-time into a daily bonding ritual and igniting a passion for books that lasts for life. Our next chapter is bold: scale from $1 M to $3 M+ in annual revenue while doubling re-order rates and maintaining a premium, keepsake-quality experience.
The Mission for this RoleAs Director of Growth & E-commerce you will own the company's primary success metric—new customers acquired profitably—and orchestrate every lever that drives it. You will be both strategic leader and sleeves-rolled-up operator, managing our paid-media, CRO, email and tech specialists while personally diving into campaign builds, creative testing, and analytics whenever needed. Your mission: take our proven product, refine its message, and scale it to the first $20M.
How You'll Fit with the Team- Report directly to the two founders (Tech + Product Marketing).
- Lead a pod that already includes a Junior Media Buyer, senior CRO specialist, Klaviyo email marketer, and dev resources.
- Get hands on with the channel scaling and testing of messaging and positioning.
- Full autonomy to hire, promote, or part ways with team members and agencies; budget authority across media, creative, tech, and tooling.
- Collaborate with the founders on product roadmap and brand guidelines—once those guidelines are set, you can run tests without additional approvals.
- Systematise creative & messaging — build a rapid-testing pipeline that refines hooks around bonding-ritual + learning value.
- Own the growth P&L — hit revenue and LTV:CAC targets; forecast and manage paid-media budgets.
- Scale acquisition channels — Scale paid spend across Meta, AppLovin, TikTok, Google, and emerging platforms at profitable ROAS.
- Prioritising Meta
- Drive lifecycle revenue — optimise flows and campaigns in Klaviyo; deploy segmentation that lifts LTV
- Level-up the team — set OKRs, mentor, and, when necessary, recruit or replace talent to keep velocity high.
Report with clarity — maintain live dashboards; present weekly cohort and unit-economics insights to founders.
How We Work- Holes-Driven Alchemists — we obsess over the outcome (family bonding & reading joy), not the features AKA we sell the hole, not the drill.
- Data beats opinion — every new test is shipped with a metric and kill-criteria.
- Default to autonomy — once objectives and guard-rails are clear, you run.
- Feedback is fuel — we critique fast, iterate faster, and celebrate wins loudly.
Requirements
Must-Have Qualifications- Managed $300 k+/mo paid-media budgets on Meta at sustainable ROAS.
- Led growth for a DTC brand that scaled past $10 M Revenue
- Hands-on mastery of Woo-commerce + Klaviyo and familiarity with pixel/server-side attribution.
- Hired, coached, and performance-managed a cross-functional growth team (media, CRO, email, creative).
- Data-obsessed operator fluent in cohort analysis
- Entrepreneurial mindset; thrives on progress over perfection and “selling the hole, not the drill.”
- Personalised, print-on-demand, or children's product categories.
- Global shipping / duty optimisation for multi-region DTC.
- Subscription or series-based product models.
- LTV modelling, and SQL or BI tools.
- Creative-strategy background (storyboarding, UGC briefing) for kid-focused brands.
Benefits
Equivalent to USA 1099 contract
Performance based incentive structure
- Base = $6000 - $8000 per month
- Performance Escalator
- +$300 added to monthly base for each:
- $0.5 M annual-revenue increment above $1 M (e.g., $1.5M, $2M …)
- 0.10 LTV:CAC uplift above 1.00 (e.g., 1.10, 1.20…)
10 days paid vacation
Contract term: 24 months
Compensation structure workbook
Ready to turn big ideas into bigger growth?