Director of Performance Marketing

Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

$170K/yr – $195K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own a multi-channel paid media and AI-driven growth stack that blends search, social, display, and content to drive pipeline and revenue.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build attribution, measurement, and AI-assisted insights linking spend to revenue.
  • Channel & Platform Ownership: Lead SEO/agentic search, paid media, and on-site personalization to lift conversion and CAC.
  • Cross-Function Collaboration: Align with Sales, RevOps, Product Marketing, and Engineering to scale experiments, nurture, and intent-driven campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own Karbon's paid media portfolio with agency support across SEM, paid social, display, retargeting, content syndication, and review platforms - leveraging AI-powered bidding, audience modeling, and creative optimization to maximize performance
  • Manage a multi-million dollar demand gen and advertising budget and maintain the highest standards for ROAS and payback period efficiencies
  • Apply AI-driven tools and platforms to improve targeting precision, reduce CAC, and scale what works
  • Partner closely with Sales and RevOps to align paid investment with pipeline targets - using predictive analytics and AI-assisted forecasting to sharpen planning
  • Build rigorous measurement frameworks and attribution models, incorporating AI-assisted analysis to surface insights faster and connect spend to revenue outcomes with greater confidence
  • Own karbonhq.com as a high-performing commercial asset - along with leading the team responsible for traffic quality, conversion rate optimization (CRO), and pipeline contribution and web development.
  • Deploy AI-powered personalization, dynamic content, and intelligent chat to improve on-site engagement and accelerate the path from visit to conversion
  • Lead experimentation at scale - using AI-assisted testing tools to run more experiments faster, identify winning variants sooner, and continuously compound conversion improvements
  • Ensure the site is structured and tagged for maximum discoverability by both traditional crawlers and AI ingestion pipelines, treating technical site health as a strategic competitive lever
  • Own Karbon's presence on G2 and other review platforms as both a paid and organic performance channel, covering category sponsorship, profile optimization, review generation programs, and the deployment of G2 assets as conversion tools across the site and campaigns.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of performance marketing experience
  • at least 3 years in a senior leadership role in a B2B SaaS environment
  • Deep B2B vertical SaaS experience is required
  • A genuine practitioner of AI in marketing
  • Demonstrable expertise in AI-native and agentic search
  • Proven track record in paid media strategy
  • Experience owning website performance as a commercial metric
  • Data-driven and analytically rigorous
  • A strong cross-functional leader
  • Clear and confident communicator

Preferred

  • Experience in accounting, professional services, or practice management software is a plus, but not required

Benefits

  • Strong benefits package including:
  • Flexible Time Off with an encouraged 4 weeks use per year
  • Company paid medical for you and eligible spouse/partner and dependents
  • Paid dental and vision and eligible spouse/partner and dependents
  • 401(k) with company matching
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Up to 8 weeks paid parental leave
  • Work-from-home stipend
  • Work with (and learn from) an experienced, high-performing team
  • A collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity, invests in development and provides consistent feedback
  • Be part of a fast-growing company that firmly believes in promoting high performers from within
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Karbon

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Karbon is the collaborative practice management platform for accounting firms. It brings your team, clients, systems, and data together in one place, significantly improving visibility, efficiency, and connectivity no matter where your people are located.

Founded in 2014
Sausalito, California, USA
354 employees (24 in marketing)
93% recommend to a friend
94% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
677.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$36.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22%
Direct
72.3%
Referral
4.4%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~354

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
19.5 years
Median Tenure
1.9 years

Funding

Total Funding
$102.3M
Last Raise
$10.5M
Series Unknown, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2023
    Series Unknown • $10.5M
  • Feb 2022
    Series B • $66M
  • Aug 2021
    Debt Financing • $5M

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