Performance Marketing Manager

99designs is the world’s global creative platform, allowing for customers and designers to work together to create designs they love and we are looking for an analytical and ROI driven marketer to join our team as Performance Marketing Manager.

As Performance Marketing Manager you will be responsible for managing a substantial budget to grow the number of customers on 99designs in a profitable way and drive iteration for continued improvements and gains in efficiency. You’ll play a critical role in the marketing team, working alongside the creative, content and campaign teams to develop new acquisition campaigns and support multi channel initiatives.

The ideal candidate loves analyzing campaigns both qualitatively and quantitatively, optimizing them and should have a finger on the pulse of the digital advertising landscape to surface new opportunities and use innovative best practices to deliver additional value. You should be comfortable with managing multi million dollar budgets, and owning the return on investment on the campaigns you manage.

If this sounds like you, then let’s talk!

Responsibilities

• Optimize the marketing budget in channels you manage and deliver efficient return on investment (Search, Social, Video, Affiliates and Display)

• Work closely with the marketing team to identify the best value proposition for the advertising campaigns and optimize various stages of the conversion funnel on the campaigns that you run

• Work closely with the creative team to create marketing assets (text ads, social ads, videos, landing pages and more)

• Plan, execute and report out on progress and learnings along the way.

 Requirements

• 1-3 years experience managing large adwords campaigns

• Experience managing social, video and/or display campaigns is a strong plus

• Exceptional Excel skills

• BA/BS degree

 Bonus Points

• International marketing experience

• Online marketplace marketing experience

• Web analytics and tracking experience

 Where

• Oakland, CA. Five minute walk from the 19th St. BART station

A bit about us

Backed by Accel Partners (who have also invested in Facebook, Slack, and Dropbox) and Recruit Strategic Partners, 99designs is a dynamic company with offices in Oakland (right by Bart), Melbourne, and Berlin. We love our employees and go to phenomenal lengths to make sure they know it! Perks include: a well-stocked kitchen for breakfast, lunch, and snacks, free weekly lunches, Friday happy hour, transportation subsidies, excellent health care, free local gym membership, an active ping-pong table, board games….oh, and did we mention our commercial grade espresso machine?