Growth Marketing Specialist

About the role

You translate Coinflow's strategic vision into high-impact, shipped marketing work on a daily basis. You orchestrate event strategy and execution, handling logistics, guest lists, vendors, and on-site management to ensure seamless experiences. You own the lifecycle of community and brand initiatives that generate revenue and partnership opportunities for the business. You execute content publishing and distribution, drafting blog posts, social copy, and newsletters from concept through to reporting on performance. You run growth experiments such as social media tests, landing page variants, and community-led loops in close partnership with the growth team. You conduct market and competitive research in the payments space and feed insights back into content and campaign planning. You bring ideas to life quickly in a fast-moving environment, turning strategy into tangible results that drive revenue. By doing this work, you help Coinflow lead one of the fastest-growing payments startups in Chicago.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Event Strategy & Execution: Own the strategic and operational backbone of Coinflow's event program, including logistics, guest lists, vendor coordination, and on-site execution.
• Community: Sustain Coinflow's community and brand initiatives to generate revenue and partnership opportunities.
• Content Publishing & Distribution: Execute blog posts, social content, and newsletters from draft through publish to reporting.
• Social Media Management: Oversee day-to-day activity, engagement, and reporting across Coinflow's channels while maintaining consistent brand voice.
• Growth Experiments: Run smaller growth tests, such as social media experiments, landing page variants, and community-led growth loops, in partnership with the marketing and growth team.
• Market & Competitive Research: Track payments industry trends and competitor moves, and feed findings into content and campaign planning.
• Translate strategy into shipped work that drives measurable outcomes for Coinflow's revenue and growth goals.
• Collaborate closely with the Head of Marketing to prioritize initiatives and align on objectives.
• Leverage data and qualitative feedback to iterate and improve campaigns over time.
• Act as an operational owner who ensures details are managed across content, events, and community workstreams.
• Use creative judgment to support concept development and execution within brand guidelines.
• Represent Coinflow in external interactions tied to marketing, community, and event activities.

Requirements

• 0-4 years of experience in marketing, communications, events, or a related field, with internship experience counting.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Chicago, IL to work at least 4 days a week at our Coinflow HQ.
• Strong writing skills, comfortable drafting social copy, blog posts, or newsletter content in an established brand voice.
• Highly organized, with the ability to run multiple content and event workstreams at once without dropping details.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment where the role covers a lot of ground with limited hand-holding.
• Hands-on comfort and curiosity using AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to speed up workflows, research, drafting, and day-to-day execution; we expect you to use them, not avoid them.
• Genuine interest in fintech, payments, or stablecoins.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines in a dynamic startup setting.
• Willingness to work from Coinflow's Chicago headquarters for the majority of the workweek.
• Commitment to maintaining consistent brand voice and quality across all outputs.

Nice to have

• Experience with social media scheduling or lightweight design tools (e.g. Canva, Figma).
• Prior internship or early-career experience at a startup or fast-growth company.
• Experience supporting live events, including logistics, vendor coordination, or on-site execution.
• Familiarity with the stablecoin, crypto, or broader payments space.

Practical notes

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Location: Chicago.

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Engagement: Full-time.

• The base salary range for this role is $70,000 - $90,000 USD + equity. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, skills, qualifications, and business needs.
• Hours: Full-time.
• You will join a team rewriting how money moves worldwide and become a driving force in the $194 trillion cross-border payments market.