GoKawiilEmerge Career is making a dent in poverty. We are powering the skilled trades revolution, serving those who have been left behind by the system. If you want to put your fingerprints on something that actually changes lives, we'd love to hear from you.
If you're obsessed with performance, energized by ownership, and genuinely excited about building the acquisition engine for a mission that changes lives, you will thrive here.
This is not a role for someone who wants to manage agencies, fill briefs, or wait for approvals. We believe that one exceptional person, armed with AI-native workflows and genuine creative conviction, can outperform a traditional marketing team. You'll build automated pipelines that generate, test, and optimize creative at a scale no single person could match manually. And you'll do it while deeply understanding the audience—low-income adults, mid-20s to mid-40s, many formerly incarcerated, most mobile-first—because the best growth marketer for Emerge won't just be great at running campaigns, they'll have real empathy for the people on the other end of them.
The engine is already running. You'll inherit real traction and real data, not a blank slate. You'll own the acquisition channels that bring students to Emerge at scale—SEO, paid search, out-of-home, channel partnerships, content, and attribution across all of it—while working closely with teammates who own storytelling, field marketing, and partner relationships. Your job is to figure out where the highest-leverage opportunities are and go after them.
We are looking for our first AI-forward growth marketer who wants to outperform entire marketing teams.
Who We Are:
Emerge Career’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration. We’re not just building software; we’re creating pathways to real second chances. Through an all-in-one platform deeply embedded within the criminal justice system, we recruit, train, and place justice-impacted individuals into life-changing careers.
Our vision is to become the country’s unified workforce development system, replacing disconnected brick-and-mortar job centers with one integrated, tech-powered solution that meets low-income individuals exactly where they are. Today, the federal government spends billions annually on education and training programs, yet only about 70% of participants graduate, just 38.6% secure training-related employment, and average first-year earnings hover around $34,708.
By contrast, our ten-person team has locked in 9 figures in government contracts and outperformed the job centers across 9 states. With an 89% graduation rate and 92% of graduates securing training-related employment, our alumni aren't just getting jobs—they're launching new lives with average first-year earnings of $77,352. The results speak for themselves, and we're just getting started.
Before Emerge, our founders Zo and Gabe co-founded Ameelio, an award-winning tech nonprofit that is dismantling the prison communication duopoly. Backed by tech luminaries like Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, and Jack Dorsey, and by major criminal-justice philanthropies such as Arnold Ventures and the Mellon Foundation, Ameelio became a recognized leader in the space. Because of this experience both Zo and Gabe understood what it took to create change from within the system. After serving over 1M people impacted by incarceration, they witnessed firsthand the gap in second-chance opportunities and the chronic unemployment plaguing those impacted by the justice system. Emerge Career is committed to solving this issue.
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