Growth Marketing Manager, Paid Social

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$160K/yr – $210K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own paid social end-to-end across platforms, drive efficiency and spend scale in EMEA from brief to reporting.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own paid social end-to-end: Run LinkedIn, Meta, X, and emerging platforms from creative brief through launch, optimization, and reporting. You're accountable for efficiency and output across the full paid social budget, not just execution.
  • Scale spend into EMEA: Stand up and grow a paid social motion in EMEA from its current early stage. Adapt targeting, creative, and budget pacing to local buying behavior, currencies, and compliance requirements (GDPR and beyond).
  • Align spend to sales opportunity: Partner with EMEA sales leadership to make sure budget allocation tracks where the actual pipeline opportunity is by market and segment, not just where measurement is easiest.
  • Build the attribution story: Own how paid social spend connects to pipeline and revenue by market and channel. Bring your own point of view on what's working, backed by data, not just activity metrics like CTR and CPL.
  • Test and systematize: Run structured experiments across creative, audiences, and channels, and turn what works into repeatable playbooks the rest of the team can use.
  • Flex into adjacent demand gen: Support EMEA-specific ABM, landing pages, and email work as needs come up, in partnership with the broader demand gen team.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in performance marketing with a clear specialization in paid social (LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, or similar) rather than search
  • Managed paid social budgets at meaningful scale (six-figure+ monthly spend) and can speak to how you allocated across campaigns, audiences, and markets
  • Have run or scaled paid social programs in EMEA specifically—different currencies, buying behaviors, compliance considerations (GDPR, etc.), and local nuances in creative and targeting
  • Analytical and comfortable owning your own attribution story: connecting spend by market/channel to pipeline and revenue, not just CTR and CPL
  • Used to working cross-functionally with regional sales teams to align spend with where the pipeline opportunity actually is
  • Can flex beyond paid social into adjacent demand gen work (ABM, landing pages, email) when EMEA-specific needs call for it
  • Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, where you're expected to take ownership, move quickly, and learn as you go

Preferred

  • Have experience with Clay or similar audience-building tools and are comfortable building and iterating on paid audiences
  • Have stood up a paid social program in a new region from scratch (rather than inheriting one already built)
  • Speak a European language relevant to key EMEA markets (UK, DACH, France, Benelux, Nordics)
  • Bring point of view on emerging paid social channels or formats worth testing in EMEA

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
  • Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
  • Parental Leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Monthly stipend to support your wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance
  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
  • Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)
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Forerunner

Forerunner is a venture capital firm dedicated to the modern consumer and the ambitious teams reshaping categories. Since our inception in 2012, the consumer has been our North Star. We commit ourselves to having a constant pulse on what people are doing and why via ongoing research, and closely observe how world events shape the way we live.We’ve invested in category-defining companies such as Chime, Faire, OURA, Hims&Hers, The Farmer’s Dog, Glossier, Ritual, and more. With nearly $3 billion in assets under management and hundreds of investments to date, Forerunner is amongst the only women-led venture capital firms to achieve such milestones.

Founded in 2012
San Francisco, California, USA
20 employees (2 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$160K/yr – $210K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (10% of company)
Median Tenure
2.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
17

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
44.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.9%
Direct
52%
Referral
5.7%
Social
3.7%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~20

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Growth Marketing Manager, Paid Social

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