AppLovin
Performance Marketing Manager
Palo Alto, CA · Mid
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About the role
- No team to delegate to, no playbook to inherit.
- You are the channel manager across the full performance marketing mix: Meta, TikTok, Google, programmatic, ad networks, and any emerging channel worth testing.
Responsibilities
- We're hiring a founding Performance Marketing Manager to own all of paid growth for Gist - every channel, every dollar, every partnership.
- You'll set the performance marketing strategy, build the measurement foundation, and run the testing loops across Meta, TikTok, Google, and programmatic that give us real control over CAC from day one.
- To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology-assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates.
Requirements
- 3-7 years of brand-side performance marketing experience, with direct ownership of budgets and outcomes for a consumer app, marketplace, or digital product
- you have negotiated deals and managed these relationships independently
- Mobile attribution tooling experience with Adjust or equivalent
- You are the expert in the room, and everything paid runs through you.
- You are the channel manager across the full performance marketing mix:
Nice to have
- Experience running performance marketing specifically for a social, entertainment, or consumer app
- Exposure to influencer or KOL-driven paid amplification as an acquisition channel
- Familiarity with incrementality testing, geo-splits, or media mix modelling
- SQL or BI tool fluency (Looker, Tableau, Metabase) for self-serve analysis
- Top-of-market compensation
- Full ownership of a critical function from day one, inside a company with the infrastructure, ad tech depth, and platform relationships to back you up
- A lean, high-trust environment where decisions move fast and your impact is direct and visible
- AppLovin provides a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance rewards approach.
Skills
- About AppLovin
- The company provides end-to-end advertising solutions for businesses to reach, monetize and grow their global audiences.
Compensation
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Holidays: 10 paid holidays per year
- CA Base Pay Range
- $119,000 - $179,000 USD
Benefits
- Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Paid Sick Leave: 80 hours per year
Company info
- About AppLovin AppLovin makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers.
- To deliver on this mission, our global team is composed of team members with life experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that mirror our developers and customers around the world.
- At AppLovin, we are intentional about the team and culture we are building, seeking candidates who are outstanding in their own right and also demonstrate their support of others.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
- Learn more about EEO rights as an applicant here.
- If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send us a request at jobs@applovin.com
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