Growth Lead - Gambling

About the Role

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Growth Lead - Gambling. This is a fully remote role for US-based candidates.

Salary Range: $120-180K USD yearly plus equity.

We're looking for a Founding Growth Lead with a strong iGaming, sportsbook, or crypto-casino background to own acquisition, retention, lifecycle, and referrals end-to-end. You should have a deep understanding of referral program structures, retention loops, and the challenges of prediction markets.

The ideal candidate is fast, opinionated, highly autonomous, and product-minded. We leverage AI for execution but expect leaders to drive strategy and judgment.

What You'll Do

• Own growth end-to-end: acquisition, activation, retention, referral, reactivation, and reactivation-after-that.
• Build the lifecycle program from scratch, including missions, leaderboards, deposit and wager-based progression, VIP, and win-back strategies.
• Manage promo and bonus mechanics with a solid understanding of economics, abuse vectors, and offer arbitrage.
• Design and run the referral program: structure, recruit, attribute, and optimize performance.
• Own the growth dashboard, tracking key metrics like events, cohorts, retention curves, LTV, CAC, and payback.
• Run a high cadence of experiments with fast feedback loops.
• Collaborate directly with founders on positioning, growth-driving product surfaces, and the intersection of marketing and product.

What We're Looking For

• Direct iGaming, sportsbook, casino, or prediction-market experience on the operator side.
• Proven track record designing and running referral programs in crypto, gambling, or both.
• Strong lifecycle and CRM skills, including designing sequences, missions, bonus drops, retention loops, and reactivation campaigns.
• Comfort with raw event data and pulling your own cohorts.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to ghostwrite effectively.
• High output, fast feedback loops, and a willingness to iterate quickly without ego.
• Comfort working in a small, async-first, docs-heavy startup environment.

Bonus Points

• Direct experience at a crypto-native wagering product.
• Existing referral and operator relationships in crypto or gambling.
• Solana ecosystem fluency and existing relationships.
• Comfort with on-chain attribution and wallet-level analytics.

Who Tends to Do Well Here

• Operators who approach growth as a portfolio of small bets.
• Individuals who write quickly, in the right voice, and independently.
• Those comfortable with degen audiences and UX.
• Individuals who have managed acquisition with rigorous ROI tracking.
• "Engineers-of-marketing" who prioritize instrumentation.
• Opinionated individuals who can clearly articulate tradeoffs.

Who Usually Won't Like This Role

• Brand marketers.
• Individuals with limited experience beyond Google and Meta paid social.
• Those who require established creative, analytics, and ops teams.
• Individuals uncomfortable working on a gambling-adjacent product.
• Those who need a pre-built playbook.

Why This Role Is Interesting

• Own growth from day zero at a prediction-market product with full surface area.
• Direct influence on product strategy, blurring the lines between growth and product.
• Significant budget and authority for deployment.
• Direct collaboration with founders on positioning and architecture.
• Opportunity for equity and to help build an early-stage company in the prediction market space.

Compensation & Package

• Competitive salary and equity.