Performance Marketing Manager

Sierra Sierra · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Marketing & Communications

This role is responsible for building and scaling Sierra's performance marketing function, focusing on paid search and paid social to drive pipeline. The role involves owning strategy, campaign execution, budget management, and leveraging AI to optimize marketing workflows and experimentation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and scale Sierra's performance marketing function by defining and executing the strategy that turns paid spend into pipeline. Own paid search and paid social end-to-end, including channel strategy, campaign execution, and the systems needed to scale.
  2. Own pipeline and budget performance, managing a quarterly pipeline target and multi-million-dollar advertising budget. Make data-driven investment decisions and use forecasting, attribution, and reporting to optimize efficiency and demonstrate ROI.
  3. Lead strategy through execution, defining account and persona targeting, messaging, and competitive positioning while also building campaigns, optimizing bids, allocating budget, and developing high-performing ad copy and creative.
  4. Drive a culture of rapid experimentation by continuously testing audiences, messaging, creative, channels, and campaign strategies. Quickly identify what works, double down on successful initiatives, and iterate away from underperforming tactics.
  5. Leverage AI to multiply impact, automating meaningful aspects of the marketing workflow to increase speed, scale experimentation, and expand the team's reach beyond what a traditional performance marketing function could achieve.

Skills

Required

  • 7–10 years of B2B performance marketing experience
  • deep, hands-on ownership of paid search and paid social
  • expert-level proficiency across Google Ads, Microsoft/Bing Ads, LinkedIn Ads, and Meta/Facebook Ads
  • Proven success owning pipeline and budget performance
  • managing multi-million-dollar quarterly ad budgets
  • maximizing ROAS
  • partnering closely with Sales in a sales-led motion
  • using attribution, forecasting, and marketing operations to connect spend to pipeline and revenue
  • Strong strategic and executional capabilities
  • ability to develop account and persona targeting, messaging, and competitive positioning
  • executing campaign structure, platform optimization, bid strategy, budget allocation, copy, and creative
  • A data-driven operator with a bias for experimentation
  • treats every campaign as a learning opportunity
  • translates complex data into actionable insights
  • continuously optimizes performance based on results
  • A self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments
  • embraces ambiguity
  • motivated by building scalable programs and processes from the ground up

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with modern GTM tooling, including Clay and data enrichment platforms
  • experience executing ABM strategies for high-ACV, named-account sales motions
  • Experience marketing technical or AI products to sophisticated B2B buyers
  • strong point of view on measurement and attribution in a privacy-first, post-cookie world
  • A relentless experimentation mindset
  • constant backlog of ideas to test and optimize
  • always looking for new ways to improve targeting, performance, and growth

What the JD emphasized

  • multi-million-dollar advertising budget
  • multi-million-dollar quarterly ad budgets
  • AI and its applications to marketing