Global Performance Marketing Manager
GoCardlessAbout us
GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect and send payments through direct debit, real-time payments and open banking.
GoCardless processes US$130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one-off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We use AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud. And, with open banking connectivity to over 2,500 banks, we help our customers make faster, more informed decisions.
We are headquartered in the UK with offices in London and Leeds, and additional locations in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United States.
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We are looking for a Global Performance Marketing Manager to own paid media strategy and execution across our global demand generation campaigns (UK&I, Europe and North America).
Reporting to the Director of Global Demand Generation and working in close partnership with the Senior Global Campaign Manager, you will be responsible for how we reach our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) - translating campaign narratives and messaging into high-performing paid media programmes that drive pipeline and closed-won bookings.
You will define how we show up in-market: architecting campaigns in-platform, shaping audience segmentation, setting the testing framework, and leading the relationship with our paid media agency.
This is a specialist role operating within a sales-led GTM motion and an ABM framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and scale paid acquisition across channels - including LinkedIn, Meta, and Demandbase - bringing deep platform expertise and a proven track record of scaling paid social to efficiently reach target accounts.
- Lead media planning and budget allocation, owning paid social budget decisions globally and using data to inform campaign architectures that reach target accounts efficiently and predictably.
- Architect campaigns in-platform, translating briefs and messaging frameworks into effective campaign structures.
- Lead audience segmentation, mapping the SAM into platform audiences and ensuring targeting precision across business segments and personas.
- Define creative requirements and ad formats for each channel, working with the wider DG team (Campaigns, Content, Design, Regional managers) to ensure assets are fit for purpose.
- Own the testing framework, running structured experiments across creative, audiences, and channels, and feeding performance insights back to inform future campaign strategy and messaging.
- Manage our paid media agency partnership, overseeing in-platform execution, defining the guardrails they operate within, and driving continuous performance improvement.
- Deliver channel performance reporting, providing insights needed to assess campaign effectiveness.
- Build robust attribution and measurement, partnering with Marketing Operations to establish accurate cross-channel attribution - connecting in-platform performance data to commercial metrics that matter to the business.
- Collaborate with Regional Demand Generation Managers on local market strategy, audience priorities and budget allocation to ensure global campaigns land effectively.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve campaign processes, platform performance, and testing rigour.
Skills & Qualifications
- You have a minimum of 3–4 years of solid paid media or perform
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