Performance Marketing Lead
Emergent Labs
Bangalore
The Role:
What You’ll Do:
- Own the plan: split monthly budget across Google (non-brand and brand), Meta, Bing, TikTok, programmatic, affiliates, and influencers, and across 30+ countries, based on where marginal ROAS is highest. Each month, defend the plan against what actually happened
- Run channels hands-on and through agencies: Search, Performance Max and AI Max, Meta Advantage+ and value-based campaigns, app campaigns, and programmatic partners. Know when to scale, cap, or cut
- Hold affiliates and partners accountable: find low-quality and incentivised traffic at the sub-publisher level, for example a source whose users pay for a trial within minutes but never create a project. Reverse bad payouts, and design commission structures that pay for real usage and renewals, not trial sign-ups
- Measure on revenue, not on platform reports: judge every channel on day-0, day-7, and day-30 revenue per signup, payback period, and repeat purchasing, from our own data. Know where ad platforms over-count, and why
- Keep the tracking healthy: own server-side conversion setup (Meta CAPI, Google enhanced and offline conversions), the conversion values sent for value-based bidding, and UTM and attribution standards. Notice quickly when an event breaks
- Work with product and pricing: paywall, trial, pricing, and top-up offer changes move ROAS as much as bids do. Partner with Growth Product to read those changes by country and channel, and to tell traffic-quality problems apart from product problems
- Run a creative and landing-page testing programme by market and language, including localised and creator-led ads
- Build and lead the team: channel managers, analysts, and agencies
What We’re Looking For:
- 7+ years in performance marketing, including 3+ years owning a budget of $1M+ a month across several channels and countries
- Hands-on depth in Google Ads and Meta Ads: account structure, bidding strategies (tCPA, tROAS, value-based), budget pacing, and recognising when automated campaigns are buying cheap, low-intent traffic
- Comfortable judging growth on LTV and ROAS in a subscription or usage-based business, including how free trials, discounts, and repeat purchases change what a “conversion” is worth
- Strong SQL: you can query a warehouse such as BigQuery yourself to build cohorts, break down a change by country and channel, and check what the platforms report
- Has managed affiliates or performance networks at scale (Impact, PartnerStack, or similar), including detecting fraud and incentivised traffic and enforcing payout terms
- Solid grasp of attribution and measurement: server-side conversions, UTM hygiene, gaps between ad-platform and internal numbers, and designing holdout or geo tests
- Can explain a drop: when a metric moves, you separate traffic mix from product change from tracking error before acting, and you write it up clearly for leadership
- Has led people and agencies and is comfortable setting their targets and holding them to them
- Has worked on a product-led AI, developer-tool, or SaaS product whose users discover it through search
- Has run localised acquisition in Europe (Italy, France, Germany, Spain) and/or high-volume, low-price markets (India, Brazil, Indonesia), including local payment and pricing differences
- Python or notebook skills for budget-allocation models, response curves, or marketing mix modelling (MMM)
- Has used newer channels: ChatGPT and AI-search ads, Reddit, YouTube, programmatic (StackAdapt, The Trade Desk), connected TV
- Has run influencer and creator programmes measured on revenue, not reach
- Has worked closely with product and pricing teams on paywall, trial, and offer experiments
- Has built a performance marketing function from scratch at a fast-growing startup
Why Join Us:
- Work at the frontier of agentic AI, helping real users experience the next generation of computing
- Collaborate with a small, fast, and deeply technical team obsessed with product and growth
- Shape a new paradigm where software builds itself from human intent
- Competitive compensation, equity, and real ownership of the growth function
Benefits and Perks:
- Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided
- Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
- Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and come back refreshed
- Flexible Working Hours: Work arrangements that fit your life and commitments
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