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Peppr

Senior Performance Marketing Manager

Peppr, Irvine, California, United States, 92713

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About Peppr Peppr gives independent restaurants the POS and ordering solutions built for how they actually work. We focus on solving real problems owners face every day, from managing the dinner rush to driving more sales through digital channels. Running a restaurant is hard enough without fighting your technology. That’s why we handle setup and launch, so restaurants can focus on their guests and grow their business faster. Join us on our journey to transform the restaurant experience, one transaction at a time.

About the Role We’re hiring a Senior Performance Marketing Manager to own paid growth strategy and results as we build our performance engine from the ground up. While we currently partner with external agencies to execute across paid channels, this role exists to bring clear ownership, focus, and learning to our paid motion.

This is a hands‑on, builder role in a lean startup environment. You’ll set channel strategy, define hypotheses, guide agencies, and hold performance accountable across spend, efficiency, and outcomes—often without perfect information or fully built systems. You’ll connect paid efforts to messaging, funnel performance, and lead quality, working closely with Growth Marketing, Brand & Content, Product Marketing, and Sales.

You will not be responsible for designing final ad visuals, but you will own creative direction, testing strategy, and performance feedback, ensuring what we run is on‑brand, platform‑native, and built to convert.

This role requires deep, channel‑level fluency and comfort operating in ambiguity—someone who knows what works (and doesn’t) on each paid channel and can translate that judgment into clear strategy, creative guidance, and budget decisions. Success in this role means turning paid into a predictable, learning‑driven growth lever, even as the systems around you are still being built.

What You’ll Do

Own channel‑by‑channel paid performance strategy and analysis, including creative performance, audience behavior, efficiency, spend, and outcomes by platform

Develop and maintain a strong point of view on what works (and doesn’t) on each channel (e.g., Meta vs Google vs LinkedIn) and why

Set channel‑specific hypotheses, testing plans, and success metrics, rather than treating paid as one blended motion

Define clear learning goals for paid campaigns and ensure every test produces actionable insight

Diagnose performance issues at the channel level (creative fatigue, audience saturation, intent mismatch, landing page friction)

Allocate and reallocate budget based on channel‑level insights, not aggregate averages

Partner with Brand & Content, designers, and/or agencies to shape creative direction, messaging, and offers for paid

Draft or suggest ad copy and creative angles to accelerate testing velocity (without owning final design)

Provide clear creative briefs, testing direction, and performance feedback for paid campaigns

Review, QA, and iterate on creative based on performance data while ensuring brand alignment

Partner with Growth Marketing to improve post‑click conversion, funnel performance, and lead quality

Ensure paid efforts are properly tracked, attributed, and segmented in the CRM

Work directly with external agencies to set direction, prioritize experiments, and evaluate results

Hold agencies accountable for platform‑native execution and best practices

Review performance weekly, make fast trade‑offs, and decisively adjust spend

Translate channel performance into clear, concise insights for Marketing and Leadership

What You’ll Bring

Strong strategic thinking paired with hands‑on execution instincts

Comfort owning outcomes in ambiguous, early‑stage environments

Ability to work effectively with agencies while holding them accountable

Clear communicator who can explain performance, trade‑offs, and learnings

Bias toward speed, focus, and disciplined experimentation

Deep curiosity about what actually drives conversion and revenue

Basic Requirements

4–7+ years of experience in performance or demand marketing roles

Proven hands‑on ownership of paid performance across multiple channels, with a deep understanding of platform mechanics

Strong channel‑level judgment; able to clearly explain why something is or isn’t working on a specific platform

Experience managing six‑figure+ monthly budgets and making trade‑offs across paid channels

Experience working with and managing external agencies, including setting direction and holding them accountable

Experience setting channel‑specific benchmarks, expectations, and testing plans

Strong analytical skills; comfortable digging into performance data, funnel metrics, and trade‑offs

Hands‑on experience with paid ad platforms (e.g., Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn Campaign Manager)

Strong working knowledge of GA4 and platform‑native analytics

Deep comfort working in a CRM (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce) to analyze lead lifecycle, segmentation, and pipeline impact

Familiarity with attribution concepts (UTMs, lead source, MQL/SQL, pipeline, conversion tracking)

Advanced proficiency in spreadsheets (Google Sheets / Excel) for analysis and decision‑making

Comfortable working with dashboards or BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Mode)

Experience collaborating cross‑functionally with Brand & Content, Growth Marketing, Product Marketing, and Sales

Nice to Haves

B2B SaaS experience

Experience scaling spend post‑product‑market fit

Experience bringing paid execution in‑house over time

Strong creative instincts or prior creative testing experience

Advanced analytics, attribution, or experimentation background

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