Job Description

Location:

North West (Hybrid - 1 day in office, Wednesdays)

Salary:

40,000 - 45,000

About Cottonmill

Cottonmill is a portfolio group of ambitious companies spanning SaaS, creative services, media, sports, and social impact.

Brands you will work with include:

megabrief.com - AI-powered creative briefing platform tone.co.uk - design & digital agency breaksfoundation.org - charitable foundation for respite breaks freelancelift.com - resources and guidance for freelancers building sustainable businesses matchdayplay.com - co-branded club/sponsor mobile games and fan engagement tools Lancashire Podcast Studio - a new venture podcast studio from our HQ in Padiham Solo to Studio - a podcast driving forward the Tools for Tiny Agenciesmission
We're also building Tools for Tiny Agencies -- a 10-app operating stack designed to help freelance creatives and small studios run sharper, scale faster, and deliver like a studio twice their size.

The role will be mostly focused on TFTA product growth but being in a hub of creative activity will give opportunity for crossover with connected brands and products.

The Role

We're looking for a

Growth Marketing Manager

to take our ideas and products to market and keep them moving. You'll be responsible for turning launches into traction, building a drumbeat of content and campaigns, and helping our portfolio companies grow their audiences and users.

Working alongside founders and product leads, you'll:

Plan and execute

go-to-market campaigns

for new product launches. Run

growth experiments

across channels (X, LinkedIn, email, communities, UGC, partnerships). Build a

content engine

-- from blogs and newsletters to podcast snippets and social campaigns. Manage

waitlists, referral ideas, and growth loops

that encourage adoption. Track what's working (and what's not) through analytics and feedback. Create simple, repeatable playbooks that can be used across the Cottonmill portfolio.

The basics

2+ years in a growth, marketing, or GTM role (agency, SaaS, startup). A doer - comfortable planning but also rolling up your sleeves to execute. Confident with digital channels (X, LinkedIn, Meta, email platforms, communities). Some experience with creator partnerships. Strong copywriting and communication skills. Comfortable running small, scrappy experiments and learning fast. Organised, proactive, and happy working across multiple brands.

Why now?

Join a diverse portfolio of ambitious companies under Cottonmill. 40,000 - 45,000 salary, with scope to grow as you do. Hybrid working: 1 day per week in our North West office (Wednesdays), the rest remote. Exposure to SaaS, agency, charity, media, and sports-tech - all from one seat. A role with variety, autonomy, and the chance to shape the growth playbook from the ground up.

Applying - please read

We're on the frontier of AI, which means we know just how many tools are blanket bombing applications (we've seen it many times before) so please drop a note to team@cottonmill.co.uk to show us that you've read this far - can be chaos on Indeed applications and we want to know people beyond the fields that you can send here.

First stage is a 15 minute chemistry chat, we'd then get together in-person to chat some more run a more hands-on 1hr session, workshopping ideas and seeing each other at work. We find that 10x more effective than standard interview processes.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 40,000.00-45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Free parking On-site parking Work from home
Application question(s):

What's your go-to channel, if you had to pick one - which in your experience has been the most effective for these types of apps and products.
Experience:

Go-to-market: 1 year (preferred) Growth / Product: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Burnley BB12 8BU