GoCardless - Global Performance Marketing Manager
Requirements
• You have a minimum of 3–4 years of solid paid media or performance marketing experience, ideally within B2B FinTech, payments, or SaaS. • You have proven experience executing within a sales-led go-to-market engine rather than self-serve, with familiarity of ABM and enterprise buying cycles. • You have hands-on expertise with paid media platforms and are comfortable owning campaign architecture end-to-end in-platform. • You are analytically strong, with the ability to interpret performance data, run structured tests, and turn insights into clear recommendations for both media optimisation and creative direction. • You have experience managing agency relationships, setting clear expectations, and holding partners accountable to performance. • You are proficient in campaign-related technologies including CRM, MAP, and ABM platforms.
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.
Benefits
• Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work. • (some of) The good stuff • Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover • Wellbeing • Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period • Work away scheme • Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle • Adaptive Working • Equity - all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution • Equity • Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure • Parental leave • Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget • Learning Budget • Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’) • Time off • Life at GoCardless • Life at GoCardless • We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work. • Diversity & Inclusion • As of April 2025, we had 806 employees (GeeCees) globally, with 524 based in the UK, 163 based in Latvia and 119 across our other offices. • To ensure that we're representative of the world around us - and to be able to review relevant benchmarks - we ask GeeCees to voluntarily disclose diversity data. This year, the proportion of GeeCees providing data increased to 88% (up from 79% in 2024). With regards to diversity within GoCardless, we can see GeeCees identifying as: • Asian, Black, Mixed or Other — 25% • Neurodiverse — 9% • Average age — 33 • We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support. • If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives hereSustainabilityWe’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. Check out our sustainability action plan here. • Sustainability • Find out more about Life at GoCardless via Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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