Senior Performance Manager (Paid Search & Shopping) - 13 Month FTC

London, UK (Hybrid)

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Job Summary

Own a paid channel with clear team leadership, data driven decision making, and tight stakeholder alignment to hit targets while shaping a scalable testing roadmap.

  • Lead channel strategy, roadmap, and testing frameworks to drive target delivery within budget and manage risk.
  • Coach and develop the team, close performance gaps, and report progress to senior leadership.
  • Build partnerships with the Director of Marketing and external partners to align milestones and measurement frameworks.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead, and develop a team setting clear expectations, giving regular feedback, to deliver key business outcomes
  • Coach team members through problems and towards solutions
  • Identify performance gaps within the team and put structured plans in place to address them quickly.
  • Performance
  • Maintain a solid grasp of channel and business performance
  • Data-led understanding of performance with clear, evidenced reasoning for any changes or fluctuations.
  • Channel ownership
  • Accountable for target delivery, budget and overall channel health
  • Build and own the strategy, and channel roadmap, developed in close collaboration with the Director of Marketing
  • Define milestones, KPIs and measurement frameworks for your tactics

Requirements

  • Proven experience in ecommerce, leading Paid Search and Shopping in a performance-focused environment, with a track record of hitting targets
  • Strong people management skills including coaching, and developing individuals as well as teams
  • A high bar for performance: target-driven, budget-literate and comfortable holding yourself and your team to measurable outcomes
  • Solid analytical skills; you can diagnose performance issues quickly, explain them clearly, and come to the table with recommendations
  • Experience owning channel strategy and roadmap development, including testing frameworks and milestone planning
  • Confident presenting to and influencing senior stakeholders, with a proactive, solutions-first approach to communication
  • Able to manage risk, dependencies and resource allocation across a small team

Preferred

  • Experience in marketplace, retail
  • Familiarity with affiliate models
  • Experience with cross team collaboration (engineering, product, commercial)

Benefits

  • Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days.
  • Time Off: 29 holidays per year (in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays).
  • Competitive Family Leave Package: Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
  • Clothing Benefit: Clothing allowance starting at £250 and increasing up to £1,000 with length of service.
  • Private Healthcare: Comprehensive healthcare scheme with Vitality from day one.
  • Training Allowance: Annual training allowance of £1,000 for conferences, events, courses and resources.
  • Pension Scheme: The People’s Pension with minimum 5% employee and 3% employer contributions.
  • Eye Tests and Vouchers: Free annual eye test and discount towards glasses.
  • Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Bicycle purchase with voucher.
  • Transport Season Ticket Loan: Interest-free season ticket loan.
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Lyst

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Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. In 2025, Lyst joined Zozo, operators of Zozotown, the leading fashion e-commerce platform in Japan. This partnership marks a bold new era for Lyst, as we accelerate our vision and work together to transform the future of fashion shopping through AI and technology. At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.

Founded in 2010
City Of London, England, GBR
248 employees (45 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$48.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
65.1%
Direct
30.2%
Referral
2.1%
Social
1.6%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~248

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
33 (13% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$144M
Last Raise
$85M
Series D, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2021
    Series D • $85M
  • May 2018
    Corporate Round
  • Apr 2015
    Series C • $40M

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