Global Performance Marketing Manager

London, UK

£63K/yr – £95K/yrSenior Level3+ years exp

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale paid media across multiple channels for an ABM-led go-to-market, turning platform expertise into predictable pipeline while owning testing, attribution, and regional landings.

  • Growth ownership: End-to-end paid media architecture and in-platform execution for target accounts across LinkedIn, Meta, and Demandbase.
  • Measurement and testing: Build a structured testing framework and translate insights into campaign and creative direction.
  • Agency and operations: Manage the paid media agency, set guardrails, and deliver clear, performance-driven reporting across regions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and scale paid acquisition across channels - including LinkedIn, Meta, and Demandbase - bringing deep platform expertise and a proven track record of scaling paid social to efficiently reach target accounts.
  • Lead media planning and budget allocation, owning paid social budget decisions globally and using data to inform campaign architectures that reach target accounts efficiently and predictably.
  • Architect campaigns in-platform, translating briefs and messaging frameworks into effective campaign structures.
  • Lead audience segmentation, mapping the SAM into platform audiences and ensuring targeting precision across business segments and personas.
  • Define creative requirements and ad formats for each channel, working with the wider DG team (Campaigns, Content, Design, Regional managers) to ensure assets are fit for purpose.
  • Own the testing framework, running structured experiments across creative, audiences, and channels, and feeding performance insights back to inform future campaign strategy and messaging.
  • Manage our paid media agency partnership, overseeing in-platform execution, defining the guardrails they operate within, and driving continuous performance improvement.
  • Deliver channel performance reporting, providing insights needed to assess campaign effectiveness.
  • Build robust attribution and measurement, partnering with Marketing Operations to establish accurate cross-channel attribution - connecting in-platform performance data to commercial metrics that matter to the business.
  • Collaborate with Regional Demand Generation Managers on local market strategy, audience priorities and budget allocation to ensure global campaigns land effectively.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve campaign processes, platform performance, and testing rigour.

Requirements

  • You have a minimum of 3–4 years of solid paid media or performance marketing experience, ideally within B2B FinTech, payments, or SaaS.
  • You have proven experience executing within a sales-led go-to-market engine rather than self-serve, with familiarity of ABM and enterprise buying cycles.
  • You have hands-on expertise with paid media platforms and are comfortable owning campaign architecture end-to-end in-platform.
  • You are analytically strong, with the ability to interpret performance data, run structured tests, and turn insights into clear recommendations for both media optimisation and creative direction.
  • You have experience managing agency relationships, setting clear expectations, and holding partners accountable to performance.
  • You are proficient in campaign-related technologies including CRM, MAP, and ABM platforms.

Preferred

  • You have a minimum of 3–4 years of solid paid media or performance marketing experience, ideally within B2B FinTech, payments, or SaaS.
  • You have proven experience executing within a sales-led go-to-market engine rather than self-serve, with familiarity of ABM and enterprise buying cycles.
  • You have hands-on expertise with paid media platforms and are comfortable owning campaign architecture end-to-end in-platform.
  • You are analytically strong, with the ability to interpret performance data, run structured tests, and turn insights into clear recommendations for both media optimisation and creative direction.
  • You have experience managing agency relationships, setting clear expectations, and holding partners accountable to performance.
  • You are proficient in campaign-related technologies including CRM, MAP, and ABM platforms.

Benefits

  • Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
  • Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
  • Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
  • Equity - all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution
  • Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
  • Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
  • Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
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