Senior Manager, User Acquisition – Paid Social

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$141K/yr – $165K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the paid-social user-acquisition strategy across a diverse portfolio, steering full-funnel, testing, and cross-functional collaboration to drive subscriber growth.

  • Own investment decisions within budgets to optimize performance
  • Lead multi-market tests and scaling across platforms
  • Partner with Analytics/Data Science for attribution, forecasting, and experimentation

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the paid-social user-acquisition strategy for a significant portfolio of markets, platforms, campaigns, or audience segments, aligned with broader growth and subscriber objectives and the strategic direction established by Growth Marketing leadership.
  • Develop and execute full-funnel strategies across Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and emerging social platforms, with particular emphasis on performance-driven acquisition and conversion.
  • Translate company and global growth priorities into actionable channel strategies, investment recommendations, testing roadmaps, and market-specific execution plans.
  • Develop annual and quarterly portfolio plans, including strategic priorities, investment scenarios, performance targets, and key business assumptions.
  • Manage performance against defined business outcomes, including subscriber acquisition, customer acquisition cost, return on advertising spend, lifetime value, conversion, retention quality, and incremental growth.
  • Identify emerging opportunities, performance risks, and changing market conditions and independently recommend adjustments to strategy, investment, and execution.
  • Make day-to-day portfolio and campaign investment decisions within approved budgets and escalate material changes that involve significant financial or business risk.
  • Balance global consistency with regional consumer behavior, cultural considerations, platform dynamics, and local market requirements.
  • Establish scalable optimization frameworks across audience segmentation, bidding, placement, campaign structure, creative testing, and budget allocation.
  • Use advanced performance analysis to diagnose complex acquisition challenges and determine appropriate corrective actions.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in paid social, user acquisition, growth marketing, or performance marketing, including ownership of complex or multi-market programs.
  • Demonstrated success developing and scaling paid-social acquisition strategies with measurable impact on subscriber, revenue, or customer-growth outcomes.
  • Advanced hands-on expertise across Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and other major or emerging social advertising platforms.
  • Experience managing significant media investments and making data-informed budget-allocation decisions across campaigns, platforms, or markets.
  • Strong knowledge of performance measurement, attribution, incrementality, forecasting, experimentation, and customer-lifetime-value concepts.
  • Experience solving complex, ambiguous business problems independently and converting analysis into actionable strategy.
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.
  • Strong understanding of platform-specific creative strategy, audience behavior, and cultural differences across international markets.
  • Experience in presenting complex performance information and recommendations clearly to stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
  • Experience leading agency relationships and holding external partners accountable for performance and business outcomes.

Benefits

  • Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
  • Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
  • Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
  • Health Saving Account HSA program
  • Health care and dependent care FSA
  • 401(k) plan, with employer match
  • Employer paid commuter benefit
  • Support program for new parents
  • Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
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At Crunchyroll, we deliver what anime fans love—anytime, anywhere.With the world’s largest anime streaming library, we connect fans to the stories, characters, and creators they love. But Crunchyroll is more than just a destination to watch anime—it's a global ecosystem where anime lives and breathes beyond the screen.From streaming and theatrical releases to merch, games, news, events, and music, we offer fans immersive experiences that celebrate anime culture in all its forms. Headquartered in the U.S. with teams and reach across the globe, Crunchyroll is an independently operated joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex of Japan. This unique partnership gives us the power to scale globally while staying rooted in anime’s cultural origins, ensuring authenticity and access for fans everywhere.We believe anime is more than entertainment—it’s a way of life. And we’re here to champion that passion every day.

Founded in 2006
Los Angeles, California, USA
2.1K employees (791 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
0% CEO approval

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
424 (21% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$26.8M
Last Raise
$22M
Series Unknown

Funding History

  • Nov 2015
    Series Unknown • $22M
  • Mar 2010
    Series Unknown • $750K
  • Feb 2008
    Series A • $4.1M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
185.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
14.6%
Direct
66.2%
Referral
2.8%
Social
14%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.1K

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