Fora is the modern travel agency, empowering anyone with a passion for travel to build a thriving advisory business. We're modernizing the $100B+ travel agency industry by combining powerful technology, data, and community to enable thousands of entrepreneurs to build on our platform. Our business-in-a-box platform gives travel entrepreneurs everything they need to launch and scale, from cutting-edge tools and personalized training to a vibrant community and exclusive industry partnerships. At the heart of it all is our mission: to help the next generation of travel entrepreneurs turn their love for travel into a fulfilling career, whether full-time or part-time. We believe that everyone, from seasoned professionals to first-time advisors, can build something both profitable and personal.
Founded in 2021 by seasoned entrepreneurs, Fora has grown steadily since, expanding to a team of 200+ full-time employees based in downtown New York City. In 2026, we announced our $60 million Series D investment round, led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, and Heartcore Capital. We've also been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Startup 2024, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2025 and 2023, and we were most recently recognized as one of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2026.
We're building the first truly unified platform for all travel needs—leveraging the best of human expertise and technology to transform how people plan and book travel.
Fora is looking for a Growth Marketing Manager, Advisor Acquisition to identify, test, and scale new advisor acquisition opportunities that drive long term business growth. This role is focused on finding the channels, strategies, and initiatives that bring in advisors who go on to book meaningful, repeat travel, rather than simply maximizing signups.
Reporting to the Performance Marketing Lead, you will own the full lifecycle of growth initiatives, from initial hypothesis through experimentation, measurement, and scaling. You will work closely with Data, Product, Creative, and Site and Conversion partners to develop repeatable frameworks for evaluating new opportunities, making evidence based decisions, and continuously improving acquisition performance.
Success in this role requires strong analytical thinking, an experimentation mindset, and a passion for using AI as a core part of your day to day workflow to accelerate research, creative iteration, analysis, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities- Own the end to end strategy, execution, and optimization of advisor acquisition initiatives across emerging marketing channels and cross functional growth opportunities.
- Develop, launch, and evaluate structured zero to one experiments with clear hypotheses, success metrics, decision timelines, and predefined criteria for scaling, iterating, or ending initiatives.
- Build repeatable testing frameworks that enable the team to evaluate new acquisition opportunities consistently and efficiently.
- Make channel investment decisions based on incrementality, downstream value, and return on ad spend targets, balancing experimentation with disciplined capital allocation.
- Lead the operating cadence for acquisition performance, including daily pacing reviews, weekly scorecards and growth reviews, and monthly cohort analyses, initiative reviews, and channel deep dives.
- Partner with the Data team to design measurement approaches that isolate incremental impact and develop robust lifetime value, customer acquisition cost, and cohort quality models.
- Own the health and optimization of channel measurement signals, ensuring platforms optimize toward meaningful advisor value rather than low quality acquisition metrics.
- Collaborate with Creative partners to develop, test, and iterate channel specific creative assets, leveraging AI enabled workflows to increase testing velocity and creative learning.
- Drive landing page and offer experimentation by partnering with Creative and Site and Conversion teams while maintaining ownership of testing strategy, creative alignment, measurement, and recommendations.
- Build and maintain AI powered automations and agents that streamline recurring workflows such as reporting, competitive research, creative analysis, and performance monitoring.
- Communicate clear, actionable recommendations based on performance data, providing thoughtful analysis of results and a strong point of view on future investment decisions.
- Champion an incrementality first approach across all acquisition initiatives by prioritizing rigorous experimental design over traditional attribution models.
- Experience owning growth or performance marketing channels and cross functional initiatives from strategy through execution and optimization.
- Demonstrated success building structured experimentation frameworks that enable scalable decision making rather than isolated campaign testing.
- Strong understanding of incrementality measurement, including holdout testing, geo experiments, matched market testing, or similar causal methodologies.
- Deep understanding of lifetime value, customer acquisition cost, return on investment, and downstream business performance as drivers of acquisition strategy.
- Hands on experience building and deploying AI powered workflows, automations, or agents that improve operational efficiency and remain part of ongoing business processes.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex performance data into clear recommendations and business decisions.
- Excellent cross functional collaboration skills with experience partnering closely across marketing, data, creative, product, and technical teams.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast moving environments where experimentation, rapid learning, and continuous iteration are essential.
- A high degree of ownership, accountability, and bias toward action, with a demonstrated ability to overcome obstacles and drive outcomes independently.
- A genuine curiosity for learning, continuous improvement, and delivering measurable business impact.
- Experience acquiring partners, affiliates, or marketplace participants in a two sided platform environment.
- Experience scaling emerging acquisition channels from initial experimentation through sustained investment.
- Experience working in high growth technology or consumer marketplace businesses.
- Experience using AI tools to accelerate experimentation, research, reporting, creative development, and workflow automation.
Compensation for this role varies based on experience, with an indicative range of $145k –$175k + equity.
- Unlimited vacation
- Health Insurance (including an option completely covered by Fora HQ)
- Dental & Vision Insurance
- Wellhub Memberships
- 401k plan with company match
- Commuter Benefits
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Stock Options
This role is based in our beautiful New York City office (Tribeca/Fidi) with lots of natural light and great views.
We’re forging our own path
Fora has always been about driving change within the industry. We’re not interested in maintaining the status quo.
We’re stronger together
Community is our cornerstone and collective power is our strength. We believe we can all go further when we operate together, using our combined leverage to unlock better opportunities and outcomes for our advisors, partners, and travelers.
We believe in technology
We believe technology is an answer to some of the most fundamental challenges the travel industry faces. We believe advancements in AI, bold investments in our platforms, and a world-class data infrastructure will transform the work of our advisors and our partners, while creating better travel experiences for travelers.
We’re here to serve
We operate in service of our community and believe that when they’re empowered to focus on what they do best, we all win. It’s why we relentlessly advocate for our advisors and prioritize their best interest every step of the way.
We mean business
Fora is equal parts fun, meaningful work and serious travel business. We’re unlocking opportunities for thousands of travel entrepreneurs, delivering a stream of high-quality guests at scale for our partners, and providing a superior travel experience for our travelers. It’s a better equation for the future of our industry.
WORK AUTHORIZATION
Authorization to work in the United States is required for full-time roles based in our New York City office. Fora is unable to sponsor or assist with U.S. work authorization. Roles based outside of the United States are not subject to this requirement.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Fora is committed to an equitable hiring process and an inclusive work environment. BIPOC and traditionally underrepresented candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We will not discriminate and will take action to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- Experience owning growth or performance marketing channels and cross functional initiatives from strategy through execution and optimization.
- Demonstrated success building structured experimentation frameworks that enable scalable decision making.
- Strong understanding of incrementality measurement, including holdout testing, geo experiments, matched market testing, or similar causal methodologies.
- Deep understanding of lifetime value, customer acquisition cost, return on investment, and downstream business performance.
- Hands on experience building and deploying AI powered workflows, automations, or agents used in business processes.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex performance data into clear recommendations and business decisions.
- Excellent cross functional collaboration skills with experience partnering across marketing, data, creative, product, and technical teams.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast moving environments where experimentation, rapid learning, and continuous iteration are essential.
- High degree of ownership, accountability, and bias toward action with ability to drive outcomes independently.
- Genuine curiosity for learning, continuous improvement, and delivering measurable business impact.
- Experience acquiring partners, affiliates, or marketplace participants in a two sided platform environment.
- Experience scaling emerging acquisition channels from initial experimentation through sustained investment.
- Experience working in high growth technology or consumer marketplace businesses.
- Experience using AI tools to accelerate experimentation, research, reporting, creative development, and workflow automation.
Fora Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Pay Growth & Progression — Compensation for advisors includes a tiered commission split that increases with higher annual bookings, creating clear pathways to higher take‑home pay. Top performers are positioned to achieve strong earnings potential when they build significant sales volume.
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Healthcare Strength — Employees are offered comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, alongside life and disability insurance. This breadth of core health benefits supports financial protection beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Employees have unlimited PTO, paid holidays, and dedicated work‑from‑anywhere weeks that provide substantial time‑off flexibility. This scope of leave supports work‑life balance in a hybrid/remote setup.
Fora Insights
What We Do
Fora is the modern travel agency, redefining what it means to be a travel advisor in today’s world. We’re a next-generation platform that provides a comprehensive, business-in-a-box solution—combining cutting-edge technology, personalized training, a vibrant community, and exclusive industry partnerships—all designed to empower anyone with a passion for travel to turn that passion into a thriving business. Whether you're a travel enthusiast or an experienced professional, Fora equips you with everything needed to launch and scale a successful travel advisory business, making it the ultimate way to align work with your lifestyle. At the heart of Fora is our mission: to power the next generation of travel entrepreneurs to transform their love for travel into a fulfilling full-time or part-time career, offering unparalleled flexibility, autonomy, and support. We believe that everyone, from seasoned travel professionals to first-time entrepreneurs, can build a career that’s both profitable and aligned with their passions. Our platform combines innovative technology with the human touch, offering: Best-in-class training programs to help agents develop expert knowledge, no matter their starting point. A powerful suite of tools for booking, client management, and marketing, ensuring agents can focus on delivering exceptional travel experiences. Access to an engaged community of fellow advisors, fostering collaboration, support, and shared learning. Exclusive partnerships with top travel brands, providing access to competitive rates, perks, and experiences that elevate advisors’ offerings. Since our founding in 2021 by experienced travel entrepreneurs Henley Vazquez, Jake Peters, and Evan Frank, Fora has experienced rapid growth, expanding to a team of 130+ full-time employees based in downtown New York City. Earlier this year, we announced our $60 million Series B and C investment rounds, led by Thrive Capital and Insight Partners, with participation by previous investors including Forerunner and Heartcore Capital. This funding represents a vote of confidence in the enduring power of entrepreneurship, and secures our ability to build a category-defining travel brand. We have a vision for the future that leverages the best of humans and the best of technology to create the first truly unified platform for all travel needs - from staycation to the safari.
Why Work With Us
Fora is redefining the travel industry by challenging norms and fostering a culture of growth, curiosity, and autonomy. We invest in cutting-edge technology to fuel innovation and empower our team to drive impactful change. Here, you’ll find meaningful work with ample opportunities for internal growth.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Fora’s workplace policy offers balance and flexibility: we’re in-office 4 days a week, enjoy 3 weeks remote annually, and have flexible Fridays—all in a bright, inviting space in Fidi/Tribeca that fosters collaboration and creativity.
