Vercel

Performance Marketing Manager

Vercel$150K — $188K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in running and scaling paid performance campaigns for B2B SaaS, developer tools, or consumer tech businesses.
  • Proven record managing substantial paid media budgets ranging from $1M to $5M+ annually and achieving superior ROAS and CAC targets.
  • Hands-on expertise in advertising platforms including Meta Ads, Google Search, YouTube, and LinkedIn Ads, with experience in TikTok Ads as a plus.
  • Fluency in data analytics and storytelling derived from campaign data to inform decision-making.
  • Demonstrated experience and comfort with AI tools to automate workflows and improve efficiency in campaign management.
  • Strong copywriting skills with the ability to create compelling performance-focused creative content.
  • Clear communication skills suitable for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end paid acquisition efforts across key digital channels including Google, Meta, and LinkedIn.
  • Manage a multi-million-dollar annual media spend while focusing on lowering Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and improving Return on Ad Spend (ROAS).
  • Leverage AI to streamline operations by building automated workflows and agents that enhance campaign turnaround times.
  • Conduct extensive creative and audience testing to discover and design successful ad variants using AI capabilities.
  • Establish and maintain comprehensive measurement and attribution frameworks to ensure clean data throughout the campaign lifecycle.
  • Produce detailed performance reports that provide actionable insights and recommendations to leadership.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with teams such as Product Marketing and Lifecycle to ensure cohesive targeting and messaging strategies.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package, including equity incentives.
  • Inclusive healthcare package to support employee well-being.
  • Opportunities for professional development through mentorship and attendance at networking events.
  • Flexible Time Off policy to promote work-life balance.
  • Provision of necessary work gear and a remote work budget for home office setup.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

You'll own paid acquisition at Vercel across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, and emerging channels, with one goal driving the work: scalable, profitable customer acquisition for our self-serve and enterprise motions.

This role is built for an analytical, AI-native growth marketer who cares about results, testing velocity, and scale. We want someone who has already wired AI into how they work, building agents, automations, and workflows that let them operate like a much larger team. You'll bring operational rigor to how we launch and scale campaigns, own the systems that make us faster, and turn our acquisition engine into a compounding growth loop. The work sits between strategy and execution, in close partnership with Product Marketing, Lifecycle, Creative, Data, and Marketing Operations, so the right message reaches the right developer or buyer in the right channel.

What You Will Do:
  • Paid acquisition end to end across Google Search and YouTube, Meta, LinkedIn, and emerging channels, driving signups, activations, and pipeline
  • Multi-million-dollar annual paid media spend, where you beat ROAS and CAC targets and lower CAC over time
  • AI-driven operating leverage, building agents, automations, and AI-assisted workflows that compress campaign turnaround and scale creative production
  • Creative and audience testing, where you systematically find (and sometimes design) winning creative and audience segments, using AI to generate and iterate variants at high velocity
  • Measurement and attribution, building funnel reports and cohort analyses with Analytics, and owning event-based tracking, pixels, and conversion APIs so the data stays clean
  • Performance reporting, where you surface actionable insights and clear recommendations to leadership on a regular cadence
  • Cross-functional alignment with Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Lifecycle, Creative, and Marketing Operations on targeting, messaging, and down-funnel conversion

About You:
  • 5+ years running and scaling paid performance campaigns at high-growth B2B SaaS, developer tools, or consumer tech companies
  • Demonstrated AI-native habits, where you reach for AI by default and have built agents, automations, or workflows that changed how you operate (if you've automated parts of your own job, that's a strong signal)
  • Hands-on expertise with Meta Ads, Google Search and YouTube, and LinkedIn Ads, with TikTok Ads or programmatic as a bonus
  • A track record managing $1M to $5M+ in annual paid media budgets and beating ROAS and CAC goals
  • Fluency in data and analytics and storytelling with campaign data and testing and evaluating audience performance
  • Strong copywriting instincts and taste in performance creative, and ability to scale taste with AI
  • Clear written and verbal communication that lands with both technical developers and enterprise buyers
  • A bias for action - you can just ship things.


Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • Inclusive Healthcare Package.
  • Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
  • Flexible Time Off.
  • We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $150,000 - $188,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.

About Vercel

Vercel Inc., formerly Zeit, is an American cloud platform as a service company. The company maintains the Next.js web development framework. Vercel's architecture is built around Jamstack, and deployments are handled through Git repositories.
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