Growth Marketing Manager, Paid Social

Decagon

$110K — $130K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in performance marketing with a focus on paid social (LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, etc.)
  • Experience managing significant paid social budgets (six-figure+ monthly spend)
  • History of running or scaling paid social programs in EMEA with attention to local nuances
  • Analytical aptitude for tracking attribution and connecting spend to revenue
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with sales teams to align marketing spend with pipeline opportunities
  • Flexibility to engage in adjacent demand generation activities (ABM, landing pages, etc.)
  • Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment with ownership and a proactive approach.

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage end-to-end paid social campaigns including budget allocation and optimization
  • Develop and scale paid social initiatives specifically for EMEA markets
  • Collaborate with EMEA sales leadership to prioritize budget spends based on actual pipeline opportunities
  • Establish and communicate the attribution framework linking paid social to revenue by region
  • Conduct experiments on creative and audience targeting while creating actionable playbooks
  • Support broader demand generation efforts in EMEA, adapting as necessary to market needs.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for employees and family
  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
  • Retirement Plan options available
  • Parental Leave provisions
  • Fertility and family building support through Carrot
  • Monthly wellness stipend to enhance work-life balance
  • Daily meal provisions including lunches and snacks in the office
  • Flexible vacation policy that encourages taking necessary time off.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for a Growth Marketing Manager to scale Decagon's paid social programs internationally, with an initial focus on EMEA. This role owns paid social spend end-to-end-LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, emerging platforms-and is responsible for standing up and scaling an EMEA motion. You'll partner closely with EMEA sales leadership to make sure spend allocation tracks where the deals actually are, not just where measurement is easiest.

This is a channel-owner role for someone who's spiked in paid social specifically and has managed large budgets where efficiency and allocation decisions really matter. While paid social is the core of the role, you'll also flex into adjacent demand gen work-ABM, landing pages, email-as EMEA-specific needs come up.

In this role, you will
  • Own paid social end-to-end: Run LinkedIn, Meta, X, and emerging platforms from creative brief through launch, optimization, and reporting. You're accountable for efficiency and output across the full paid social budget, not just execution.
  • Scale spend into EMEA: Stand up and grow a paid social motion in EMEA from its current early stage. Adapt targeting, creative, and budget pacing to local buying behavior, currencies, and compliance requirements (GDPR and beyond).
  • Align spend to sales opportunity: Partner with EMEA sales leadership to make sure budget allocation tracks where the actual pipeline opportunity is by market and segment, not just where measurement is easiest.
  • Build the attribution story: Own how paid social spend connects to pipeline and revenue by market and channel. Bring your own point of view on what's working, backed by data, not just activity metrics like CTR and CPL.
  • Test and systematize: Run structured experiments across creative, audiences, and channels, and turn what works into repeatable playbooks the rest of the team can use.
  • Flex into adjacent demand gen: Support EMEA-specific ABM, landing pages, and email work as needs come up, in partnership with the broader demand gen team.


Your background looks something like this
  • 5+ years in performance marketing with a clear specialization in paid social (LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, or similar) rather than search.
  • Managed paid social budgets at meaningful scale (six-figure+ monthly spend) and can speak to how you allocated across campaigns, audiences, and markets.
  • Have run or scaled paid social programs in EMEA specifically-different currencies, buying behaviors, compliance considerations (GDPR, etc.), and local nuances in creative and targeting.
  • Analytical and comfortable owning your own attribution story: connecting spend by market/channel to pipeline and revenue, not just CTR and CPL.
  • Used to working cross-functionally with regional sales teams to align spend with where the pipeline opportunity actually is.
  • Can flex beyond paid social into adjacent demand gen work (ABM, landing pages, email) when EMEA-specific needs call for it.
  • Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, where you're expected to take ownership, move quickly, and learn as you go.


Even better if you have
  • Have experience with Clay or similar audience-building tools and are comfortable building and iterating on paid audiences
  • Have stood up a paid social program in a new region from scratch (rather than inheriting one already built).
  • Speak a European language relevant to key EMEA markets (UK, DACH, France, Benelux, Nordics).
  • Bring point of view on emerging paid social channels or formats worth testing in EMEA.


Benefits

We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees:
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
  • Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
  • Parental Leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Monthly stipend to support your wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance
  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
  • Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)

These benefits are described in more detail in Decagon's policies, may vary by location, and can change at any time according to applicable compensation and benefits plans.

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