Director of Performance Marketing & Media

USA (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $150K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive national paid media strategy across digital, social, search, video, and emerging platforms to maximize ROAS and align with brand campaigns.

  • Own national-level paid media strategy across digital, social, search, video, and emerging platforms.
  • Must-have: 7–10 years of paid media leadership with large budgets and agency partners.
  • Standout: Cross-functional KPI framing and collaboration with executives and Marketing Operations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owning national paid media strategy across national, regional, and local markets spanning digital, social, search, video, and emerging platforms.
  • Managing agency relationships with clear performance expectations, accountability, and ongoing collaboration.
  • Overseeing media budget allocation and continuously optimizing spend to maximize performance.
  • Improving testing frameworks, creative rotation strategies, and performance tracking methodologies.
  • Ensuring accurate trafficking, tagging, and campaign deployment processes across all channels.
  • Partnering with executive leadership to establish KPI frameworks tied to traffic, memberships, birthday parties, and promotional outcomes.
  • Improving transparency, consistency, and rigor in performance reporting.
  • Identifying optimization opportunities to strengthen ROAS, CPA, and overall media efficiency.
  • Partnering with media agencies, creative partners, and internal teams to ensure paid media assets are designed for channel effectiveness.
  • Leading structured creative testing across formats, messaging, and offer positioning.

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Business, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 7–10 years of experience in paid media, performance marketing, or media leadership roles, including managing large media budgets and external agency partners.
  • Strong analytical rigor and financial acumen , with the ability to evaluate performance, optimize media investment, and drive efficiency against key metrics such as ROAS and CPA.
  • Deep understanding of digital trafficking, tagging, attribution, and campaign deployment processes , with experience improving reporting transparency and performance measurement.
  • Proven ability to develop and execute data-driven paid media strategies across digital, social, search, video, and emerging platforms that drive measurable business outcomes.
  • Experience leading and holding agency partners accountable , establishing clear expectations, performance standards, and collaborative working relationships.
  • Ability to connect performance marketing initiatives with broader brand strategy , ensuring paid media supports key campaigns, promotions, and brand initiatives.
  • Experience operating within multi-location or franchise environments preferred.
  • Ability to remain stationary for extended periods while performing computer-based work and communicating via phone and Microsoft Teams, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

  • medical, dental, and vision coverage along with a 401k plan with company matching
  • Eligibility for 401k is based on age and tenure requirements
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Founded in 2011
Provo, Utah, USA
2.3K employees (151 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$34.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
55.2%
Direct
36.5%
Referral
5.7%
Social
1.3%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
45 (2% of company)

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