Performance Marketing Manager

Performance Marketing Manager

We're looking for a results-driven, analytical, and creative Performance Marketing Manager to own paid acquisition and performance programs end to end. You'll test aggressively, optimize constantly, and scale what works across search, social, display, and third-party sponsorshipsdriving measurable pipeline in a high-velocity environment. Chainguard delivers hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of the open source software engineers rely onso teams can build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. We're the trusted source for open source. Chainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of the modern software stackcontainers, language libraries, and VM images.

What You'll Do

• Develop, launch, and optimize performance campaigns across Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, and Displayowning channel strategy, execution, and iteration.
• Leverage buyer?intent and first / third?party signals to sharpen targeting, improve conversion efficiency, and inform budget allocation.
• Manage third?party sponsorships end to end : evaluate opportunities, negotiate, brief, launch, and reportactivating our ICP across high-signal publications and communities.
• Partner with Integrated Campaigns to plug paid channels into cross?channel motions that build brand and drive qualified pipeline.
• Build and run account?based marketing (ABM) programs with regional marketing and Sales to engage and accelerate key accounts.
• Analyze performance, attribution, and full?funnel metrics to uncover insights, prioritize experiments, and guide growth decisions.
• Design and run A / B tests across creative, copy, audiences, bidding, and landing pages; scale winners quickly and retire underperformers.
• Collaborate with Content / Creative to produce on?brand, high?performing ad assets and landing experiences that convert.
• Own forecasting and pacing; allocate budgets across channels and campaigns to maximize ROI while hitting growth targets.
• Partner with Analytics to build dashboards and reporting that communicate performance, learnings, and next steps to stakeholders.
• Identify new growth leverschannels, partnerships, formats, and ad techpilot thoughtfully, and scale what proves out.

What We're Looking For

Base Salary Range $111,000 - $130,000 USD

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard's mission is to be the safe source for open source.

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If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

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