Creative Marketing Lead / Head of Creative Marketing

Our mission at Ello is simple and urgent: Maximize the potential of every child, everywhere.

We’re building the world’s first AI teacher to close that gap: one that listens, speaks, adapts, and inspires, just like the best human educators.

Our first product, Read with Ello, is already helping tens of thousands of kids each week learn to read. It listens as they read aloud, offers support when they stumble, and generates magical, personalized stories using generative AI. It works—and kids love it.

Now, we’re scaling that success into something even bigger: a complete AI teacher for all children. We’re building a real-time learning platform—one that combines language, speech, and memory to power personalized, interactive education for kids worldwide. We’re moving fast: we ship weekly, test directly with kids and families, and push the boundaries of what AI can do in education.

With the resources of the world's top investors and the heart of a public benefit corporation, we’re here to revolutionize how children learn globally. Featured on TIME’s Best Inventions and Fortune’s Change the World, Ello is a small, mission-driven team taking on one of the most important challenges of our time: to democratize education.

About the Role

This is a foundational creative leadership role that has high ownership.

We’re looking for a Creative Marketing Lead (title/level dependent on experience) to own Ello’s creative output across brand, organic social, and awareness to fuel growth through great creative.

This role is deeply hands-on. You’ll be writing, creating, concepting, and shipping work yourself — while also setting direction and managing contractors. If you’re energized by doing the work and shaping how creative drives growth, this is your sweet spot.

This role does not include paid media strategy, or performance marketing. You’ll partner closely with a Performance Marketing Manager or agency who owns paid spend.

Note on the title: this role is intentionally scoped with flexibility. We’re excited about candidates who are brilliant senior ICs as well as those who have operated at a more senior leadership level while still being deeply hands-on. What matters most to us is creative excellence, ownership, and drive.

What You’ll Own

• Creative direction and experimentation across growth channels

• Sourcing and managing freelancers, creators, and small agencies

• Developing Ello’s brand voice and creative standards as we scale

• Owning messaging and storytelling across Ello’s key surfaces (social, landing pages, campaigns)

• End-to-end creation of content: writing, concepting, scripting, and producing

Who You Are

• A hands-on creative marketer — you still write, create, and ship regularly

• Strong at storytelling and copywriting, with a clear point of view

• Experienced collaborating with performance marketers without needing to own the channel

• Comfortable moving fast, testing ideas, and iterating without perfect briefs

• Excited to focus on creative excellence rather than owning the full marketing stack

• Drawn to education, parenting, or mission-driven consumer products

Requirements

• 5–10 years in creative, brand, content, or social marketing

• Experience launching campaigns or products at consumer or mission-driven brands

• Evidence of recent hands-on creative work (not just managing agencies)

About Ello

Ello is a public benefit corporation on a mission to maximize the potential of all children. We’re currently around 48 people, headquartered in San Francisco with another office in Nairobi, Kenya.

Our team has deep expertise in artificial intelligence, K-12 education, and child development across institutions such as Stanford, Berkeley, Google, Apple, and more. We were part of Y Combinator’s W20 batch and are funded by world-class investors, including Goodwater Capital, Homebrew, Reed Hastings, Common Sense Growth, Ravensburger, Project A Ventures, Reach Capital, Khosla Ventures, WndrCo, Visible Ventures, and K9 Ventures.

We’re a small, collaborative team that takes each other’s voices seriously. Because our mission is to support all children, our team must be representative of the communities we work in; we place significant emphasis on ensuring diversity in our team and inclusion in our culture.

We feel enormously privileged to be one of the few companies with the opportunity to take a shot at truly revolutionizing education with AI at this inflection point in technology. We don’t take it for granted, so we work urgently to turn that vision into reality. We want to create an environment where we can all be our best selves, use our strengths to take Ello forward, and develop our skills. We want to have fun while working hard to do impactful things we’re proud of – and we believe it’s possible to do both.

At Ello, diversity is a moral imperative and a competitive advantage. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, skin color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to assess skills and experience directly. If you need accommodations throughout the interview process, please contact [email protected].