Head of Growth

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Hiring: Head of Growth, Mill Media,Manchester

August 7, 2025

About us

Since being founded in June 2020, Mill Media has become a new force in British journalism, publishing high quality local journalism in six UK cities, including Manchester, London, Glasgow and Birmingham. The company has been described as “one of the most interesting and impressive media startups of the last decade,” by the FT’s John Burn-Murdoch, and as “very, very impressive” by the Wall Street Journal’s editor Emma Tucker.

Our financial backers include Sir Mark Thompson, the chief executive of CNN and former boss of the New York Times and BBC, who said he was investing because of the “exceptional quality” of our work. In the past year, our stories have led to political resignations , questions in parliament and have even prompted a police investigation into fraud at a university. The FT covered our plans to expand to London and Glasgow and The Observer wrote that we are “shaking up local news”.

Mill Media has gone from a single journalist writing long form stories during the pandemic to 20 full time journalists operating across the country. More than 175,000 people have signed up to get our journalism in their inboxes and our teams are sustained by more than 10,000 paying members. But in the next few years, we want to grow even faster, bringing high quality journalism to millions more readers and growing our subscriber base several times over.

That’s why we are now hiring our first-ever Head of Growth: a key position that will get our brands and our journalism in front of whole new audiences, innovate in how we add readers to our community and stop at nothing to make sure Mill Media becomes a major provider of high quality journalism in the most important UK cities. Please find the details of the role below.

Our new Head of Growth will be in charge of finding the next 100,000 people in our cities who will be interested in our journalism, and signing them up (and then then next 100,000 after that). This will involve a huge amount of creativity and drive, but it will also need someone who is extremely tuned into data and very motivated by driving up our numbers.

It’s a role for someone who loves our brand of journalism and wants to double the size of our community as soon as possible. You might have a background in marketing for a successful organisation or you might have worked in a growth role for a fast-growing startup. But the key thing is that you love what we do and you want to help to take us to the next level.

Key responsibilities

Role Details

About us

Since being founded in June 2020, Mill Media has become a new force in British journalism, publishing high quality local journalism in six UK cities, including Manchester, London, Glasgow and Birmingham. The company has been described as “one of the most interesting and impressive media startups of the last decade,” by the FT’s John Burn-Murdoch, and as “very, very impressive” by the Wall Street Journal’s editor Emma Tucker.

Our financial backers include Sir Mark Thompson, the chief executive of CNN and former boss of the New York Times and BBC, who said he was investing because of the “exceptional quality” of our work. In the past year, our stories have led to political resignations , questions in parliament and have even prompted a police investigation into fraud at a university. The FT covered our plans to expand to London and Glasgow and The Observer wrote that we are “shaking up local news”.

Mill Media has gone from a single journalist writing long form stories during the pandemic to 20 full time journalists operating across the country. More than 175,000 people have signed up to get our journalism in their inboxes and our teams are sustained by more than 10,000 paying members. But in the next few years, we want to grow even faster, bringing high quality journalism to millions more readers and growing our subscriber base several times over.

That’s why we are now hiring our first-ever Head of Growth: a key position that will get our brands and our journalism in front of whole new audiences, innovate in how we add readers to our community and stop at nothing to make sure Mill Media becomes a major provider of high quality journalism in the most important UK cities. Please find the details of the role below.

Role description

Our new Head of Growth will be in charge of finding the next 100,000 people in our cities who will be interested in our journalism, and signing them up (and then then next 100,000 after that). This will involve a huge amount of creativity and drive, but it will also need someone who is extremely tuned into data and very motivated by driving up our numbers.

It’s a role for someone who loves our brand of journalism and wants to double the size of our community as soon as possible. You might have a background in marketing for a successful organisation or you might have worked in a growth role for a fast-growing startup. But the key thing is that you love what we do and you want to help to take us to the next level.

Key responsibilities

Mill founder Joshi Herrmann (right) with staff writers Jack Dulhanty and Mollie Simpson in our Manchester office. Photo: Dani Cole.

Key requirements

How to apply

Please apply to hiring@millmediaco.uk with the following things by 3 September 2025, although we may appoint this role earlier if we find the right candidate.

  • Your CV, with a focus on listing out what roles and projects you have worked on in your previous jobs.
  • A cover letter/email explaining why you think you would be well suited to the role and why you want to join Mill Media.
  • Two examples of things you have done in previous roles that have led to growth (in revenue, signups, conversions etc).
  • Two growth ideas that you would want to experiment with if you got this job.

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    Location:
    Manchester, England, United Kingdom
    Salary:
    £150,000 - £200,000
    Job Type:
    FullTime
    Category:
    Management & Operations

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