Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end performance strategy across brand and local media, ensuring alignment to conversion goals, lead volume, and efficiency metrics (CPL / CPA)
• Translate commercial objectives into actionable media plans, including budget allocation, channel mix optimization, target CPA guidance, and structured testing roadmaps across audiences, creative, formats, and bidding
• Deliver weekly performance recommendations to executive leadership, including spend adjustments, scaling opportunities, and key risks with mitigation plans
• Continuously evaluate tradeoffs between brand and local investment, ensuring decisions reflect total system performance rather than channel-level optimization
• Leverage platform data and MTA insights to identify performance drivers, inefficiencies, and areas of diminishing return
• Partner with Analytics to prioritize and operationalize MTA use cases, ensuring insights translate into clear media decisions
• Validate and challenge performance assumptions, particularly around incrementality across channels (e.g., search vs. social)
• Ensure data and insights consistently lead to optimization actions, not just reporting outputs
• Lead brand and preferred local agencies, setting clear expectations for optimization cadence, testing rigor, and reporting quality
• Facilitate regular agency meetings, including performance reviews and ongoing working sessions to assess results and priorities

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in performance marketing, growth marketing, or paid media leadership roles
• Proven ownership of multi-channel media performance, including budget allocation and efficiency optimization
• Strong experience leading and managing agency partners with a focus on accountability and outcomes
• Deep understanding of paid media channels, including paid search and paid social
• Experience working with attribution models (MTA or similar) and Marketing Mix Modeling, applying insights to decision making
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills and ability to influence across teams
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear recommendations
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field

Preferred

• Experience in franchise, multi-location, or lead-generation businesses strongly preferred

Benefits

• Full-time team members are eligible for health, dental and vision insurance
• 401k with company matching up to 3.5% and company provided life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 50% tuition reimbursement for up to three children and/or one grandchild at any Primrose School