Senior Performance Marketing Manager - Emea

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Growth Marketing

This role is for a Senior Performance Marketing Manager responsible for leading EMEA performance marketing efforts to drive customer acquisition and business growth through Paid Media (paid search, paid social, etc.). The manager will own the strategy and execution of performance marketing campaigns, focusing on full-funnel campaigns, experimentation, optimization, and delivering measurable impact on pipeline and revenue. Key responsibilities include managing campaigns across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, LinkedIn, and Facebook, and experimenting with new channels. The role requires a strategic, hands-on, and analytical approach to uncover growth opportunities and improve CPA and ROAS.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and execute a data-driven customer acquisition and expansion strategy across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads (Bing), Linkedin, Facebook, and other performance marketing channels.
  2. Experiment with new channels to uncover new growth frontiers.
  3. Adapt and localize global performance strategies for specific EMEA markets, ensuring cultural relevance and language accuracy, while architecting bespoke EMEA-first campaigns tailored to unique regional market dynamics and buyer behaviors.
  4. Own end-to-end campaign strategy and execution - from ideation and audience targeting to ads trafficking, creative optimization and performance analysis.
  5. Use A/B testing and experimentation to continuously improve ad creative, audience targeting, and bidding strategies.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years hands-on experience with Paid Search and/or Paid Social
  • Experience managing high-growth performance budgets across a fragmented multi-market landscape (e.g., UKI, DACH, France, Benelux)
  • Skilled in building campaigns and ads directly in platform-native tools (e.g.,Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Linkedin, Facebook, 6sense)
  • Experience working with high-growth SaaS products, a deep understanding of the B2B sales funnel, and familiarity with the B2B MarTech stack, including Salesforce and Marketo
  • Skilled in trafficking ads, implementing tags in Google Tag Manager, and understanding server-side tracking and first-party data strategies
  • Results-oriented and data-driven, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative insights to guide decisions and prioritize roadmaps
  • Proven ability to build performance marketing channels from the ground up, scaled to a high level of paid spend, with a strong focus on high-impact, high-return initiatives

Nice to have

  • Programmatic Display, ABM, Affiliate, and landing page optimization experience is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • high-growth performance budgets
  • high-growth SaaS products
  • build performance marketing channels from the ground up