VP, Performance Marketing

Durham, NC (Remote)

$196K/yr – $260K/yrSenior Level

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

The role leads the full-funnel paid media strategy across Google, Bing, Meta, and emerging platforms, with budget responsibility and targets for CAC, ROAS, and volume. You’ll optimize across channels, collaborate with the publisher network, and drive a data-driven experimentation culture while leading a marketing team. Relevant requirements emphasize a hands-on, senior background in SEM, Paid Social, and Programmatic, plus leadership experience and analytical skills. Nice-to-have items highlight financial services or marketplace experience, collaboration with partners, and strong analytics proficiency.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Paid Media Strategy & Execution: Own the full-funnel performance strategy across Google Ads, Bing Ads, Meta, and emerging platforms, ensuring every dollar spent contributes to profitable growth.
  • Budget & P&L Accountability: Manage and allocate a significant performance marketing budget. You will be responsible for hitting ambitious targets for CAC, ROAS, and volume, providing regular forecasting and performance reporting to leadership.
  • Multi-Channel Optimization: Continuously optimize campaigns, creative assets, and landing pages to drive maximum conversion and efficiency.
  • Strategic Publisher Network: Collaborate with our Business Development team to manage and scale performance-based marketing efforts across our unique media publisher partner network and Credible's publisher ecosystem.
  • Data & Measurement: Establish and refine measurement frameworks. Work with Data Science and Engineering to improve attribution modeling, tracking, and the integration of first-party data into our bidding strategies.
  • Experimentation Culture: Design and lead a rigorous A/B testing roadmap—testing everything from bidding algorithms and creative hooks to granular audience segmentation.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with the Head of Organic and Head of Lifecycle to ensure a seamless customer journey and with General Managers to optimize their conversion funnels.
  • Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of performance marketers, fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
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Credible

We are a marketplace where users can compare personalized, prequalified rates and quotes from multiple lenders and carriers, for student loans, mortgages, personal loans and insurance.We combine the intelligence, expertise, and confidence of a financial advisor with the approachability and honesty of a friend. In other words, we’re the friend you always wish you had in finance.We are optimistic, challengers, trustworthy, clever, and smart. We are open and transparent. We strive to act as advisors by being friendly, objective, and open in our communication. We use language that is intelligent yet approachable. When appropriate, we’ll drop in a bit of wit to position ourselves as a fresh, reliable voice in the financial world.We’re challenging the status quo by giving power to the consumer. We believe in a world where ‘ethical’, ‘lending’, and ‘insurance’ can coexist, so we set out to build innovative platforms that actually work for customers. Our mission is to help people find the best loan or insurance policy possible. We believe researching and buying loans or insurance shouldn’t be confusing or complex, so we’ve focused on simplicity. We’ve created the only unbiased loan and insurance buying process out there, which makes finding options straightforward and clear. Insurance-related services are provided through Young Alfred Inc. (CA: Young Alfred Insurance Agency, Lic. # 0M90597). All loan and mortgage-related services are provided through Credible Operations, Inc., NMLS # 1681276. www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org. Not available in all states.

Founded in 2012
Durham, North Carolina, USA
215 employees (38 in marketing)