Sr. Manager, Performance Marketing & Digital Growth

Tustin, CA

$135K/yr – $165K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the paid media and search engine visibility stack while aligning paid, organic, and email paths to move buyers through the journey.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Own tagging, attribution, and data quality across GA4, GTM, UTMs, and CRM handoffs.
  • Channel Performance: Set strategy and optimize paid media and SEO to drive pipeline and revenue impact.
  • Cross-Channel Lifecycle: Coordinate across paid, organic, content, and landing page experiences to improve conversion paths and activation.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own strategy and performance for paid digital channels, including Google Ads, paid social, YouTube, display, retargeting, and third-party media. Lead campaign architecture, keyword strategy, budget recommendations, bidding strategy, audience targeting, conversion tracking, and optimization.
  • Lead SEO and AEO strategy in partnership with web, content, and scientific communications teams. Improve Zymo’s visibility across traditional search, AI-driven answer engines, product pages, application pages, campaign pages, and technical content.
  • Evaluate how paid media, SEO, email, organic social, content, landing pages, and nurture paths work together across the customer journey. Provide performance guidance to channel owners without necessarily owning day-to-day execution of every organic channel.
  • Own channel-level reporting and translate performance data into clear recommendations. Diagnose what is working, what is underperforming, why it is happening, and what should change. Key metrics may include CPA, CPL, ROAS, conversion rate, CTR, quality score, impression share, attribution, conversion quality, pipeline contribution, and revenue impact.
  • Partner with analytics, CRM, web, and development stakeholders to improve tracking integrity across GA4, Google Tag Manager, UTMs, pixels, forms, landing pages, campaigns, and CRM handoffs. Ensure marketing performance data is reliable, actionable, and connected to business outcomes.
  • Manage and develop one direct report initially. Partner closely with Creative, Web, Integrated Campaigns, Product Marketing, Commercial, Sales, and Scientific Communications to ensure digital channels are aligned with customer needs, campaign priorities, and commercial goals. Establish repeatable planning, QA, optimization, and reporting practices that improve consistency, accountability, and speed across digital programs.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience owning digital channel strategy, performance marketing, paid media, or growth marketing strategy, not just campaign execution.
  • Deep hands-on Google Ads, including search campaign architecture, keyword strategy, bidding, conversion tracking, quality score, and optimization.
  • Proven ability to set paid search and digital performance strategy, including budget allocation, channel mix, testing plans, and performance recommendations.
  • Experience managing paid media budgets with accountability for ROI, CPA, CPL, ROAS, pipeline contribution, revenue impact, or similar business metrics.
  • Strong analytical judgment with the ability to diagnose performance issues across targeting, keywords, creative, landing pages, tracking, messaging, offers, funnel quality, and market fit.
  • Working knowledge of SEO and how paid media, organic search, email, social, content, landing pages, retargeting, and nurture paths work together to drive acquisition and conversion.
  • Experience using dashboards, campaign reports, analytics platforms, and marketing performance data to generate strategic recommendations.
  • Clear communication skills with the ability to translate data into actionable guidance for leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • 2+ years of experience managing or directing at least one direct report, contractor, agency, or channel specialist.
  • Familiarity with analytics tooling and measurement frameworks that connect marketing activity to revenue outcomes.

Preferred

  • B2B marketing experience, especially in technical, scientific, healthcare, biotech, life science, SaaS, or complex product environments.
  • Familiarity with GA4, Google Tag Manager, UTM governance, CRM tracking, pixel management, attribution, and broader marketing measurement infrastructure.
  • Experience with LinkedIn Ads, YouTube, display, retargeting, third-party media partners, and paid social strategy.
  • Familiarity with AEO, AI search visibility, answer engine optimization, and landing page conversion optimization.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance Coverages
  • EAP Sessions
  • Vacation Time plus Company Holidays
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Generous 401(K) with matching
  • Employee Referral Bonus
  • Complimentary fruit, snacks, and beverages
  • Complimentary catered lunches on Thursdays
  • Complimentary EV Charging
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Zymo Research

Since its inception in 1994, Zymo Research has been proudly serving the scientific community by providing innovative, reliable, and high quality research tools at affordable prices. Our vision..."The Beauty of Science is to Make Things Simple" is now truer than ever. Whether it's epigenetics, DNA, RNA, E. coli, or yeast based research, our philosophy remains the same: To provide the highest quality products in the industry while ensuring they are both simple to use and reliable in their performance.Zymo Research is historically recognized for its innovation of high quality nucleic acid purification technologies. Under the branding DNA Purification Made SimpleTM and RNA Purification Made SimpleTM, our technologies are pushing the limits of what is possible with nucleic acid isolation. As The Epigenetics CompanyTM, Zymo Research has also received much attention for its rapidly expanding portfolio of epigenetics products and services. It is our objective to develop and provide the most comprehensive set of tools for DNA, RNA, and epigenetic research and analysis available today. Thousands of peer-reviewed scientific publications from researchers around the world feature our technologies. Through innovation, our scientists have made streamlined DNA methylation detection possible, pioneered the micro-elution column for DNA and RNA purification, developed the simplest and the most sophisticated methods for high-quality plasmid DNA purification, and patented the first RNA purification directly from Trizol without phase separation among many other leading technologies in the industry.At Zymo Research, we are committed to quality and guarantee that all of our products and service will meet and exceed your expectations. We pledge to be honest and responsible for everything we do with you. We will treat you as we would like to be treated. Together, we will build a brighter future.

Founded in 1994
Irvine, California, USA
198 employees (11 in marketing)