User Acquisition Manager (Aligned)
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About the Position
We're Rist Labs - a cofounding studio building ethical, AI-powered B2C products that matter.
We partner with sharp founders and top talent to launch ventures that move fast, scale globally, and make a real impact.
We’re looking for a User Acquisition Manager to join Aligned - a subscription-based AI Coach trained on 1,000+ top books and expert insights, helping users achieve personal and professional goals faster with 24/7 coaching.
You’ll play a key role in scaling the product across Tier 1 markets, leading paid media campaigns, testing bold strategies, managing budgets, and driving growth.
If you’re ready to launch a high-impact product with a world-class team, strong budgets, and full creative freedom - we’d love to meet you 🚀
Responsibilities
- Scaling marketing budgets and launching campaigns on Meta
- Coordinating with the creative team and efficiently adapting creatives for growth
- Developing and delivering clear weekly reports on campaign performance, including key takeaways, next steps, and optimization recommendations
- Tracking and managing key performance metrics, such as budget pacing, LTV, CAC, ROMI/ROAS, and ROI/ROR
- Collaborating with the marketing and creative teams to help shape all strategies
- Generating ideas for automations to reduce manual work
Requirements
- 1+ years of media buying and user acquisition experience in a product company
- Proven track record of scaling Meta ads with a budget of $100k+
- Experience with subscription-based products targeting Tier 1 markets is essential
- Strong analytical skills with hands-on experience in hypothesis-driven testing
- Expertise in optimizing traffic based on CPL, CAC, LTV, ROMI/ROAS, ROI/ROR
- Ownership mindset and a team-player attitude
- English - upper-intermediate level or higher
Bonus Points
- Practical experience with Amplitude or Looker
- Experience with Google Ads and/or TikTok Ads
We Offer
- Office/hybrid/remote work format
- Freedom to build. No micromanagement. No politics. No fluff
- Top-tier team. You’ll work with proven operators, product thinkers, and creatives
- Not one path. Yours. We support all kinds of growth: leadership, depth, and breadth, allowing you to choose how far and where to go
- Paid vacation + sick leave
Perks
- We benchmark salaries globally. We want you to feel valued, and paid like it
- English courses
- Apple gear, because we don’t believe in slow laptops or slow ambition
- Company-paid lunches (because hungry brains don’t build great stuff)
About the Company
We are a cofounding studio that turns bold ideas into ethical, AI-powered B2C ventures. You build the product - we handle the rest. We've launched 4 real-world EdTech and personal growth products across Tier-1, LatAm, Europe, and Ukraine.
What we’ve co-built
- Mate academy - helped 5,000+ people break into tech
- Aligned - AI-powered personal coach
- Noot - AI health companion
- Kodree - 80% practice-based skills platform
Read more about Rist Labs
Recruitment Process
- Interview with Recruiter
- Technical interview with Manager
- Culture-fit interview with CEO
- Reference check
- Job Offer
Department: Rist Labs
Locations: Kyiv, Lviv
Remote status: Hybrid
Employment type: Full-time
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🖐 **Hello world!**We are Mate аcademy, a product EdTech startup driven to enable anyone, anywhere, to build a successful career through learning.We are challenging educational processes in Ukraine and worldwide, breaking the stereotype that switching to an IT profession and achieving success from scratch is nearly impossible.🏆 Our product is a technological, gamified, AI-friendly LMS platform where students learn IT specialties. Register and give it a try!Mate’s uniqueness lies in free education leading to employment (Income Share Agreement Model). Students pay 12% of their salary for 3 years, only after getting a job. That’s why our educational program prepares students to meet the needs and requirements of the job market. 80% of those who complete our training land jobs in IT.Currently, Mate’s graduates constitute 1.5% of IT specialists in Ukraine.🥇 Achievements:— Employed over 5500+ students.— Successfully launched our business in Poland and Brazil and have plans to expand to other countries.— Recognized as a “Rising Star” in Europe by Atomico, Google for Startups, andDealroom.co.— Received a monetary reward from Google in December 2022.— Growing at a rate of2.5-3times annually.🤹 ♀️ Our team consists of 150+ mates and continues to grow.We seek exciting challenges and work by the principle of getting things done. We are driven by changing people’s lives, and helping them acquire new professions. We draw inspiration from each other, as everyone does everything possible (and a little more) to achieve the goal. In such an environment, we become better every day. Hiring A-players is our focus.🎸 Our culture: “no bullshit” based on 3 values:— Full responsibility,— Be humble,— Be hungry.A culture of feedback, the right to make mistakes, transparent communication, and processes are important to us. We avoid micromanagement and instead prioritize trust and awareness of owning one’s goals.In this article, you can find more details.⭐ Founders of Mate аcademy — Anna Apostol, Roman Apostol, and Max Lysak.Roman Apostol was a team lead at Google and co-founder of the startup Preply.Anna Apostol is listed among Forbes’ 25 Women in IT, and Max Lysak is a co-founder of the Lviv business incubator Startup Depot and the Lviv IT Arena conference.
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