Own and optimize paid acquisition (Google Ads, Microsoft Ads), drive cost-efficient scalable growth, build reporting and dashboards, use AI tools for analysis, launch and run paid social (Meta), partner on landing pages and strategy, and communicate performance to stakeholders.
At Jobscan, we’re passionate about empowering job seekers to land more interviews with AI. We have helped millions of job seekers get more interviews in 100+ countries. Jobscan’s platform benefits job seekers, employers, universities, and communities. We're a fast-growing startup 🚀. Since its founding in 2014, Jobscan has thrived for 11 years as a 100% self-funded company, achieving consistent profitability and rapid growth without VC investment. Recently, we’ve transformed into an AI-first company, leveraging cutting-edge tools to enhance operations and our product. This independence allows us to stay laser-focused on our customers, delivering impactful solutions for job seekers. Join us if you wish to be a part of a company that makes a real difference in people’s lives ❤️!
Overview
Join Jobscan as our Senior Performance Marketing Manager and help drive meaningful revenue growth while empowering job seekers to land their dream roles. Paid search is our largest acquisition channel and one of the biggest engines of our growth, and you will own it end to end.
This is a hands-on craft role for someone who loves living inside the platforms and making the numbers work, not a management seat. You will run paid acquisition as an operator: strategy, account structure, day-to-day optimization, and the economics behind it. Later this year, you will lead our expansion into paid social as a major growth bet. Staying self-driven, analytical, and responsive to data, you will partner directly with the Head of Marketing to make paid acquisition a precise, profitable, and scalable machine.
Key Responsibilities
- Own Google Ads and Microsoft Ads end to end: account structure, campaigns, bidding strategies, search-terms hygiene, negative-keyword strategy, audiences, and creative testing.
- Drive cost efficiency and profitable scale, balancing CAC and volume against clear unit-economics targets.
- Build and own your own reporting and monitoring: spend pacing, CAC by funnel stage, payback, and the dashboards you need to stay ahead of the account.
- Use AI tools actively as part of your daily workflow, for analysis, audits, ad iteration, and reporting.
- Stand up and lead our paid social program (Meta first) with disciplined testing, clear success criteria, and honest go or no-go decisions.
- Partner with the Head of Marketing on strategy, landing pages, and where to place the next growth bets.
- Communicate performance, trends, and decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on performance marketing, with deep Google Ads expertise (Search, Performance Max, bidding strategies, account structure, negative-keyword strategy, audience signals).
- Has personally owned and managed over $1.2 million in annual paid budgets, and can speak fluently to the efficiency-versus-volume tradeoffs at that scale.
- Strong with data. Lives in the numbers, builds their own reporting, and is fluent in CAC, payback, LTV, conversion lag, and attribution.
- Meta or paid social experience, ideally including standing up or relaunching a program.
- B2C subscription or freemium funnel experience strongly preferred (trial-based funnels, multi-stage conversion tracking).
- Uses AI tools actively in their daily workflow, not just aware of them.
- A true individual contributor, energized by hands-on ownership and not seeking to step into people management.
- Can work independently without heavy process or hand-holding. Comfortable with ambiguity.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate decisions and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Able to maintain meaningful overlap with US Eastern working hours for real-time collaboration with the Head of Marketing.
Nice to have:
- SQL or BigQuery, and Looker Studio dashboarding.
- Server-side tracking and attribution depth (GTM, Rudderstack-type pipelines).
- Hands-on landing page and CRO experience.
- B2C SaaS, or career, HR, or recruiting-adjacent industry experience.
Benefits
- Remote work - we trust you to get your work done and make it to your meetings👩💼👨💼
- Competitive salary + stock options - you should have a piece of what we're building here🏗️
- Flexible schedule - we make it easy to take care of the important things, like your family and health👪👩⚕️
- Unlimited PTO + 14 Paid Holidays + Paid Sick Days - we want our employees to have time to care for their personal wellness and mental health💆♀️💆
- Paid maternal/parental leave - enjoy time with your family's new addition👩🍼👨👩👧
- 401(k) + employer match 💸
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance with generous employer contributions🏥
- Health savings accounts
- Life insurance
- $1000 office stipend; monthly education and internet stipend
- Wellness stipend - use for yoga class, gym membership, or anything that improves your personal wellness🧘♀️
- Apple computer or PC of your choice
Jobscan is committed to equal pay; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and As we continue to grow, we are always adding more benefits and perks for our team.
Jobscan provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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