Senior Director of Performance Marketing

Cambridge, MA (Hybrid)

$190K/yr – $205K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own forecasting, planning, and allocation of multi-million-dollar growth investment across channels
  • Lead and scale paid media (Meta, Google, TikTok, and emerging platforms), continually pushing new audiences, creative, and offers.
  • Own onsite conversion strategy and roadmap in partnership with Ecommerce optimizing end-to-end funnel performance
  • Drive lifecycle marketing strategy across CRM, improving repeat rate, LTV, and customer engagement
  • Partner with cross-teams to improve site performance, testing landing pages, flows, merchandising, and offers to maximize conversion
  • Establish the operating model across Paid, Ecommerce, and CRM to drive full-funnel performance
  • Use AI across Growth to improve & accelerate decision making, insights generation, creative production, campaign execution, and performance optimization
  • Redesign workflows and tooling to increase speed, reduce manual work, and enable a high-output, test-and-learn culture
  • Define measurement and incrementality frameworks (experimentation, attribution, cohort analysis) to guide investment decisions
  • Translate performance data into clear, actionable insights that inform strategy and cross-functional decision-making

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in performance or growth marketing, with a track record of owning and scaling large budgets
  • 3+ years of experience managing high performing digital marketing teams
  • Deep hands-on experience across paid social, paid search, and digital acquisition channels
  • Proven ability to develop and execute full-funnel marketing strategies, beyond lower-funnel optimization
  • Hands-on experience applying AI to improve marketing execution, automate workflows, and scale output across functions (e.g., analysis, creative, CRM, experimentation)
  • Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn complex data into clear recommendations
  • Experience building and leading high-performing teams in fast-paced, data-rich environments
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across teams

Benefits

  • Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings and workshops
  • Four weeks paid vacation your first year, ten paid holidays, and two floating holidays
  • Exciting business travel opportunities
  • 25% company match on your 401(k) contributions
  • Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with options for life and disability insurance, accident and hospital insurance, legal and pet insurance
  • Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • Access to fertility care and family-building support
  • Wellness benefits including a yearly fitness reimbursement
  • Frequent social and learning events, including access to our employee-run resource groups
  • Robust Employee Assistance Program
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141 employees (30 in marketing)
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$190K/yr – $205K/yr

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22 (16% of company)
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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Monthly Visitors
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Monthly Google Ads Budget
$183.5K
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Search
48.3%
Direct
34.2%
Referral
2.6%
Social
6.2%
Paid
3.8%

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Senior Director of Performance Marketing

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