Head of Performance Marketing

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the paid acquisition engine with strict payback discipline, budget tiering, and multi-market scale decisions that tie to product activation and compliance gates.

  • Growth ownership: full funnel from click to first funded transfer while meeting KYC and compliance requirements.
  • Measurement discipline: geo-lift tests, holdouts, and Marketing Mix Modeling drive CAC and payback inputs for growth bets.
  • AI-enabled workflows: automate routine tasks, speed up creative iteration, and surface anomalies before budget fires.

Job Description

Responsibilities
Own the full paid acquisition engine across Meta, TikTok, Google, YouTube, and emerging platforms, making the final call on which campaigns scale, pause, or get killed, guided by strict payback discipline. Architect a tiered corridor budget framework: doubling down in mature lanes, stress-testing new launch corridors, and maintaining baseline efficiency across markets. Lead a continuous creative testing pipeline for culturally nuanced, diaspora-specific ad creative, pairing localised digital (DOOH, programmatic) with community saturation flights in high-density immigrant cities. Own the install-to-transfer funnel, working tightly with Product, Data, and Compliance to ensure paid traffic doesn’t just download the app but clears KYC and completes a first funded transfer. Drive incrementality discipline: geo-lift tests, holdout experiments, and MMM reads are your source of truth; you are the gatekeeper of CAC and payback period inputs for all growth investment decisions. Build and maintain a KPI framework that connects individual and team performance to broader business goals, enabling data-driven decision-making at every level. Connect team-level KPIs to long-term business health by incorporating CLV alongside CAC and retention metrics into the performance framework. Structure the team’s workflows using AI agents, custom prompts, and automation tools, eliminating routine toil, accelerating creative iteration, and surfacing performance anomalies before they become budget fires. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Analytics, Brand, and Compliance to keep acquisition strategy tightly coupled to the product activation loops that turn new users into long-term LemFi customers. Requirements
8+ years in digital, paid performance, or growth marketing; fintech, mobile consumer apps, remittance, or high-growth consumer SaaS strongly preferred. Proven track record running large monthly paid media budgets across Meta, Google, and TikTok with a consistent record of hitting CPA and payback targets at scale. Some prior management experience required. This doesn’t need to be extensive, but candidates should have experience leading, mentoring, or managing at least a small team. Multi-market campaign experience across different geographies, regulatory environments, and cultural contexts; familiarity with diaspora demographics is a significant advantage. This is a highly technical performance marketing role: deep fluency in causal attribution, geo-lift testing, holdout experiments, and Marketing Mix Modeling (you run on proof, not last-click assumptions), plus hands-on comfort with tracking setups, pixels, conversion APIs, attribution models, reporting dashboards, experimentation frameworks, and performance analysis at a granular level. Strong product-led instincts: you understand the full funnel from ad click through KYC to first active transaction, and you know how to close gaps in it. AI Builder: you already use AI tools (Claude, custom GPTs, automation platforms) to eliminate manual work and amplify team output; this isn’t aspirational for you, it’s how you operate. Nice-to-have
Experience with DOOH or programmatic community-saturation campaigns in high-density immigrant markets. Hands-on familiarity with corridor-based or market-tiering growth frameworks in a remittance or cross-border payments context. Exposure to regulated fintech environments where Compliance is a real constraint on creative and targeting strategy.
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LemFi

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Making everyday financial services fair, simple and accessible for people overlooked by traditional banks, starting with those who live and work across borders

Founded in 2020
London, England, GBR
364 employees (56 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.9%
Direct
49.3%
Referral
6.6%
Social
3.6%
Paid
4.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~370

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
50 (14% of company)
Median Career Experience
12.5 years
Median Tenure
0.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$86.9M
Last Raise
$53M
Series B, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2025
    Series B • $53M
  • Aug 2023
    Series A • $33M
  • Jul 2022
    Seed

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