Performance Marketing Manager

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $115K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own multi-channel performance campaigns spanning programmatic and SEM with a bias toward direct response, translate analytics into content and media decisions, and drive client-facing execution from DSP setup to weekly performance reviews.

  • Campaign ownership: Programmatic, SEM/PPC, and paid social with direct client impact.
  • Insights & content: Use analytics, search behavior, intent, trends, and competitive intel to shape content and media plans.
  • Execution & reporting: Manage daily DSP tasks, optimization, A/B tests, KPI tracking, and weekly/monthly/quarterly performance reporting.

Job Description

- Hands-on multi-channel paid media buying, particularly programmatic buying and paid search. Paid social (primarily Meta) would be a plus. - Contribute strategic insights into content planning and recognize opportunities for new content using analytics, search behaviors, intent and trends, social listening, competitive analytics, etc. - Manage direct client communication, in partnership with account and project management, as it pertains to performance marketing programs. - Perform daily DSP management tasks, including campaign analysis and management, bidding optimization, A/B testing, and KPI analysis. - Collaborate with members of the Performance Marketing discipline for media distribution strategies. - Collaborate with other internal teams, such as analytics, creative, account operations, etc., to ensure all media executions ladder to client objectives. - Draft marketing copy for text ads, landing pages and paid campaigns. - Monitor DSP capability and integration updates and assess the potential or known impact on Manifest clients. - Responsible for weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting including performance measurement and metrics analysis and insights.
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Manifest

3.9 Glassdoor

At Manifest, we drive growth by starting in the messy middle — where customer consideration widens and momentum is at greatest risk. We focus on shortening that journey to close the gap between brand and performance, turning consideration into preference and driving results that ripple throughout the full funnel.As an independent, integrated agency with roots in content, brand journalism, performance marketing, digital storytelling, creative technology, ecommerce, and consumer brand campaigns, we’ve seen enough to know that through complexity, comes certainty.

Founded in 1981
New York, New York, USA
274 employees (109 in marketing)
59% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
16.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.6%
Direct
45.3%
Referral
9.2%
Social
6.1%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~275

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
77 (28% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Last Raise
Convertible Note, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2022
    Convertible Note

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