Performance Marketing Manager - Emerging Media & Channel Innovation

USA (Remote)

$110K/yr – $221K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid growth testing and optimization across emerging crypto channels to hit CAC/payback targets.

  • Own a strategic testing roadmap and rapid decisioning on scaling or cutting channels.
  • Must-have: 5+ years of hands-on performance marketing experience.
  • Standout: Crypto native/web3 experience aligns with platform focus and future channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build, prioritize, and maintain a strategic testing roadmap across new and novel paid channels.
  • Rapidly analyze performance, distill insights, and determine whether to scale, iterate, or cut channels - with a focus on hitting our aggressive CAC and payback target across all of our priority geos and customer segments.
  • Evaluate high-potential channels (e.g., web3 DSPs, endemic web3 publishers, emerging social platforms, gaming, beta opportunities and new ad products).
  • Partner closely with our in-house creative team to develop and test new formats for emerging channels.
  • Drive continuous campaign improvement through rigorous KPI analysis, testing and optimization to scale user acquisition across all of your owned channels.
  • Work with analytics, product, and BI teams to set up tracking, measurement, and post-test analysis.
  • Align with brand, lifecycle, and product marketing to connect learnings across the funnel.
  • Turn test learnings into repeatable frameworks, best practices, and internal documentation.
  • Present insights, trends, and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear, structured way.
  • Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on performance marketing experience
  • Experience in consumer tech products with a focus on transactional goals and demonstrated ability to optimize campaigns beyond the initial install or sign up.
  • Proven track record running structured tests, pilots, or growth experiments.
  • Experience with nontraditional or emerging platforms is a strong plus.
  • Comfortable with analytics tools, attribution models, and performance metrics.
  • Strong communication skills to simplify complex learnings for stakeholders.
  • Proficiency with mobile measurement platforms (MMPs) such as Appsflyer or Branch.
  • Curious & experimental: Constantly exploring what’s next in paid growth.
  • Data-driven: Strong ability to model performance, assess signal, and kill tests quickly.
  • Creative problem-solver: Knows how to make unconventional channels workable and measurable.

Preferred

  • Experience with nontraditional or emerging platforms is a strong plus.
  • Strong collaboration with in-house creative teams.
  • Crypto native and/or crypto/web3 experience (as a favorable alignment).
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Kraken

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Kraken is one of the world’s longest-standing and most secure crypto platforms. Our mission is to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Globally, Kraken clients trade more than 200 digital assets and 6 different national currencies, including GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, CHF, and AUD. Kraken was founded in 2011 and was one of the first platforms to offer spot trading with margin, parachain auctions, staking, regulated derivatives and index services. Trusted by over 10 million individuals, traders and institutions around the world, Kraken offers professional 24/7/365 client support along with one of the fastest, most performant trading platforms available. Kraken has set the industry standard for transparency and client trust, and was the first crypto platform to conduct Proof of Reserves audits. In 2024, Kraken ranked 12th in Newsweek's Global Top 100 list of Most Loved Workplaces, recognizing how the platform offers one of the world's most compelling employment opportunities. Risk Disclosure: https://k.xyz/3LO7ofe

Founded in 2011
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746 employees (82 in marketing)
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