Senior Growth Marketer Role - AEO & ABM at Worldly in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This 6-month contract at Worldly is a strong opportunity for a senior B2B SaaS marketer who wants high-autonomy execution work with a clear performance mandate — and a potential path to FTE.
Compensation benchmarking: At $75–$100/hr (roughly $156K–$208K annualized), this exceeds typical salaried Growth Marketing Manager rates ($90K–$130K) and approaches Senior Director-level comp. However, as a contractor you bear self-employment taxes and receive no benefits, so the effective premium over salaried roles is moderate. Still, for 6 months of focused work, the earning potential is excellent.
Skills you'll develop and strengthen:
- Answer Engine Optimization (AEO/GEO) — one of the most in-demand and emerging skills in marketing right now. Experience measuring and improving brand visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews is genuinely rare and highly marketable.
- Full-funnel ABM execution with HubSpot — a staple skill for B2B SaaS roles at $100M+ ARR companies.
- Cross-functional pipeline reporting (MQL → SAL → SQL) — valued heavily by revenue-focused teams.
Green flags: Worldly is a public benefit corporation with mission-driven investors, a 40,000-brand customer base, and a global team — signals of a stable, growth-stage company. The FTE conversion clause is a genuine career pathway, not just boilerplate.
Watch out for: The 30-day termination clause means limited job security. This is best approached as a portfolio-building sprint, not a long-term commitment. Confirm scope clarity upfront — "one person, no agency" suggests they've had vendor frustrations before.
Location: Remote - US
About Worldly
Worldly is the world's most comprehensive impact intelligence platform — delivering real data to businesses on impacts within their supply chain. Worldly is trusted by 40,000 global brands, retailers, and manufacturers to provide the single source of ESG intelligence they need to accelerate business and industry transformation.
Through strategic and meaningful customer relationships, Worldly provides key insights around supplier performance, product impact, trends analysis, and compliance. When a company wants to change how business is done, we enable that systemic shift.
Backed by a dedicated global team of individuals aligned by values, Worldly proudly operates as a public benefit corporation with backing from mission-aligned investors. Want to learn more? Read our story.
About The Role
Worldly is hiring a contractor to execute our growth marketing campaigns and report on how they perform. This is a hands-on execution role embedded in our marketing team. You take campaigns from brief to launch to results readout: you build the emails and HubSpot workflows, launch the LinkedIn and Google Ads campaigns, set up the landing pages, QA everything, and pull the reports that tell us what worked.
You will also own answer engine optimization (AEO). Our buyers now do a lot of their research in tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, and we want to know how Worldly shows up in those answers. You will measure it, track it over time, and run the plan to improve how often and how accurately we get cited.
This is a position for one person working with the marketing team. It is not a project for an agency or a consultancy, and it is not a fractional gig you fit in around other clients. If you would be subcontracting the work or bringing a team, this is not the right fit.
What You'll Do
Campaign Execution
Execute campaigns end-to-end across paid, email, organic, events support, and content syndication, aimed at high-value accounts and buying committees in the consumer goods sector.
Do the hands-on work yourself: configure HubSpot workflows, launch and manage LinkedIn and Google Ads campaigns, build landing pages, and QA every asset before it goes live.
Support account-based marketing (ABM) programs (1:many and 1:few) with our Growth (sales) team, targeting the decision-makers at the accounts sales cares about most.
Run a test-and-learn motion: launch small, measure, retire what is not working, and scale what is. Experiments need to show positive returns to earn a larger budget.
Campaign Reporting and Performance
Own campaign reporting and dashboards in HubSpot and Google Analytics, including attribution, lead quality, and pipeline contribution across the funnel (Lead, MQL, SAL, SQL).
Deliver a weekly performance readout to marketing and sales. Tell us plainly what is working, what is not, and where you would recommend we move the budget.
Keep campaign workflows and reporting infrastructure clean and reliable, with a clear marketing-to-sales handoff and feedback loop.
AEO: Measure, Track, and Improve
Measure and track Worldly's visibility in AI answer engines: how often we get cited, our share of voice against competitors, and how accurately Worldly (and the Higg Index, available through Worldly) is described.
Build and maintain an AEO scorecard, reported monthly, so we can see whether we are gaining or losing ground.
Develop and execute AEO improvement plans: content recommendations, page structure and schema changes, whatever makes Worldly content easier for AI engines to find and cite. You work with our content and web owners to actually ship the fixes.
We'd Like to See
6+ years of hands-on B2B SaaS marketing execution, including demand generation and ABM campaigns you personally built, launched, and reported on.
Expertise in our stack: HubSpot (workflows, email, reporting), WordPress (website), LinkedIn Ads, Google Ads, and Google Analytics. ABM platform experience (ZoomInfo) a plus.
Working knowledge of AEO/GEO: you have measured how brands show up in AI answer engines and improved it, or you are an experienced SEO practitioner who has extended into AI search and can show results.
Strong analytical and reporting habits. You are comfortable with pipeline metrics and attribution, and you can explain results to sales and marketing leaders without a glossary.
You have worked closely with sales teams before and delivered leads they actually wanted.
Fluent with AI tools and genuinely excited to experiment with them. You already use AI daily in your own marketing work.
Available full-time (roughly 40 hours per week) with overlap across U.S. and APAC business hours, based in the U.S., and able to work as an independent contractor.
Contract Details
Hours: 40 hours per week
Compensation: $75 – $100 hourly
Location: Remote
Contract Details: This role will start as a 6-month contract. Worldly reserves the right to end the contract with 30 days' notice. Depending on company strategy and performance, this contractor role has the potential to extend into a longer-term contract or convert to an FTE position.
Life at Worldly
Our team is motivated to transform the way products are made. By helping our customers succeed in a new era of sustainable production, we are able to build technology that makes a difference on a planetary level.
Our team represents over 15 countries, and brings unique experiences from technology to farming to the table. Surround yourself with kind, enthusiastic, and dedicated people who put collaboration and growth at the center of our shared goals.
General Travel Notice
Roles at Worldly may require occasional travel to support business needs, including but not limited to team collaboration, customer engagement, or company events.
Equity Statement
We believe it's essential to reflect the diversity of those we strive to serve. True innovation happens when everyone has room at the table, including the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel. We're dedicated to building a culturally and experientially diverse team that leads and works with empathy and respect.
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