Performance Marketing Manager, North America

USA (Remote)

$89K/yr - $113K/yr (Est.)Mid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

You will own paid media strategy and execution across channels, build and optimize campaigns, and coordinate with Sales, Admissions, and creative teams to improve enrollment outcomes.

  • Own campaign structure, targeting, bidding, and optimization
  • Collaborate with Marketing Operations on nurture, attribution, and testing

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Paid media strategy and execution
  • Plan, launch, manage, and optimize campaigns across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and other relevant channels.
  • Own campaign structure, targeting, bidding, budget pacing, tracking requirements, and ongoing optimization.
  • Build monthly media plans aligned with enrollment priorities, historical performance, seasonality, and the applicant decision cycle.
  • Allocate spend based on qualified demand, downstream conversion, and acquisition efficiency.
  • Maintain a prioritized testing plan for audiences, creative, offers, and landing pages.
  • Funnel performance and demand generation
  • Monitor the journey from lead generation through application starts, completed applications, and enrollment.
  • Identify where prospects drop off and coordinate improvements with the teams responsible.
  • Own NAM campaign and audience requirements for nurture initiatives, including segmentation, messaging, and conversion goals.

Requirements

  • At least four years of B2C hands-on performance marketing or demand generation experience.
  • Demonstrated experience managing paid B2C campaigns targeting U.S. audiences.
  • Strong working knowledge of Google Ads and Meta Ads; experience with LinkedIn Ads is a plus.
  • Evidence of improving downstream conversion and acquisition efficiency, beyond generating inexpensive leads.
  • Experience working with Sales on a considered-purchase journey or a multi-stage conversion funnel.
  • Proficiency with HubSpot or a comparable CRM, GA4, campaign attribution, and reporting tools.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to build realistic plans from historical data.
  • Experience briefing creative teams, coordinating vendors, and managing projects across functions.
  • Clear communication, reliable follow-through, and comfort raising concerns constructively.

Preferred

  • Higher education or adult learner acquisition experience is preferred.
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Nexford University

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Nexford University enables greater social and economic mobility across the world by providing learners with access to high-quality, affordable, dynamic education that prepares them for the global workplace. We offer a next-generation, fully online learning experience that will positively impact millions of lives around the world. NXU aims to demonstrate a more effective way of aligning credentials to the workforce--one that is far better positioned to give any learner, regardless of starting point, an educational foundation for lifelong success. We do this through curricular innovation, leadership in learning analytics and the development of models and tools that enable personalization and impact at scale. We are a cross-disciplinary team of relentlessly optimistic, ambitiously creative, solution-oriented problem solvers who collaborate to uncover and develop new scalable ways to enable our internal and external partners to consistently drive learner impact using the latest technologies and innovative practices available. Nexford University is an American university licensed by the Higher Education Licensure Commission in Washington DC and accredited by DEAC.

Founded in 2017
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
206 employees (20 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
80% CEO approval

Salaries

SalaryGuide estimate

$89K/yr – $113K/yr

Modelled from 13 comparable roles.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (8% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
1.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$26.1M
Last Raise
Series A, 3 years ago

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
266.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
59.1%
Direct
31.6%
Referral
6.6%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~206
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Performance Marketing Manager, North America

Nexford University · USA · Remote