Sr. Designer, Performance Marketing

San Mateo, CA (Unknown)

$110K/yr – $165K/yrSenior Level3+ years exp

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media creative and real-time optimization.

  • Growth creative production and testing for digital advertising assets across platforms.
  • Defining and iterating ad strategies with performance metrics and real-time experimentation.
  • Partner with performance marketers to turn data into next ad concepts and optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Working closely with the Growth team and Creative leadership, you'll be a hands-on maker/creator of the content that drives our growth. Focused primarily on digital advertising and performance marketing.
  • You'll be creating paid media and social advertising assets from start to finish, and their related production aspects like resizing, photomanipulation, and sometimes wordsmithing.
  • You'll collaborate on your own executional ideas, as well as helping refine and execute other's ideas.
  • A key contributor in helping define growth marketing related ad strategies and the real-time experimentation based on closely monitored performance metrics.
  • You'll work closely with performance marketers to understand what's working, what's not, and where the next opportunity lives—helping shape creative decisions based on both instinct and results.
  • You don't just make ads, you make the next version of the ad.

Requirements

  • 3–8 years of experience in visual design within Performance Marketing, Growth Marketing, or digital advertising.
  • A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional design fundamentals, strong visual problem-solving, and an ability to create work that performs—not just work that looks good.
  • You're a design machine—able to 'make assets work' through clever photo manipulation and a crafty spirit.
  • You're curious and a critical thinker with strong opinions about advertising. You notice what stops people from scrolling. You pay attention to what works, what doesn't, and why.
  • Able to work effectively, and often autonomously, in a fast-paced environment with rapidly shifting priorities.
  • Ability and mindset to create, iterate, and strategize on performance-based results.
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Founded in 2016
San Mateo, California, USA
2.6K employees (157 in marketing)
62% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$278.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.1%
Direct
65.2%
Referral
4.8%
Social
0.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
102 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
8.5 years
Median Tenure
2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$814.3M
Last Raise
$20M
Series Unknown, 3 months ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2025
    Series Unknown • $20M
  • Sep 2025
    Debt Financing • $150M
  • Feb 2025
    Series E • $200M

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