Performance Strategist (manager, Performance Marketing) - Remote Eligible

Performance Strategist

Joining the Performance department (performance marketing) as our Performance Strategist, you'll ensure Thrive operates at peak performance by establishing efficient processes, implementing best practices, and fostering growth within your team in both technical and strategic areas. Your mission will be to develop and execute project growth initiatives, lead a high-performing team, and uphold our company philosophy. You'll focus on setting your team up for success by enhancing the systems used to build, maintain, and grow client relationships through continuous improvement of philosophies, programs, policies, and processes.

Your focus of responsibilities will be:

• Domain: Recognized as an emerging leader in performance marketing at Thrive, you solve client challenges, elevate team skills, and drive program growth by enabling teams to excel in their projects and careers.
• Client: Organizing and leading high-impact client relationship drivers, such as client onboards and business reviews, and using the latest and most cutting-edge methods and tools available to achieve successful outcomes.
• People: Elevating people you work directly and indirectly with to bring best-in-class solutions to projects through their thinking and execution. Supporting the development of team members to grow company performance expertise.
• Company: Lead a culture of project excellence in the Performance department by guiding daily interactions, developing initiatives, and aligning individual efforts with organizational goals. Monitor team workflow, use business intelligence tools to optimize people and project allocation.

We're committed to delivering an exceptional onboarding experience that will create a strong foundation for your launch in this role:

• In your first 30 days you'll familiarize yourself with Thrive's tools and processes and begin onboarding to projects and teams across your department, identifying performance opportunities and building relationships. You'll also begin developing an understanding of Thrive's North American organizational culture and ways of working.
• In your first 60 days you'll be playing an active role across projects, collaborating with teams on day-to-day and longer-term account initiatives. You'll begin developing processes and strategies to improve team and project success and sharing key insights with others. At the same time, you'll deepen your fluency in how Thrive operates across time zones and cultures, adapting your style to support collaboration with both North American colleagues and clients.
• In your first 90 days you'll be stepping into account leadership opportunities, providing support across project planning, strategy, client partnerships and team skills development. By this stage, you'll feel confident navigating Thrive's North American business context while leveraging your unique perspective to strengthen team dynamics and deliver meaningful impact for our global client portfolio.

Qualifications:

• You have executed, planned and maintained multi-channel, full funnel performance marketing accounts of $200k+ USD media spend per month at a consistently positive ROI for the client across multiple platforms at a time.
• You have experience directly collaborating with and delegating to junior team members as a senior account manager. You have contributed to the development of multiple team members by leading training and providing strategic guidance and project leadership to the point of developing others to the next stage of seniority.
• You have advanced analytical skills and are experienced in using visualization tools like Google Sheets, Excel, Google Data Studio, Tableau or similar platforms to pull, sort, analyze and draw insight from ad platforms, analytics, and/or business intelligence tools.
• You've managed performance media across a range of business verticals and sizes, and have been responsible for pacing, forecasting, and reporting the impact of performance media on overarching business goals.
• You have successfully managed client and/or key stakeholder relationships via weekly touchpoint meetings, quarterly business presentations, and asynchronous communication channels. You've resolved difficult stakeholder situations, keeping priorities organized and objectives aligned and have consistently received buy-in on strategic proposals or deliverables.
• You have effectively communicated with clients on marketing concepts such as incrementality, KPI selection, attribution and business economics and have incorporated marketing measurement considerations into your strategic approaches.

Competitive Total Compensation Package:

At Thrive we aim to have base compensation for team members to be competitive in market for advertising agencies in New Zealand, while also offering a competitive benefits package which includes: remote-first and flexible work, 4 weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick and personal days, quarterly paid wellbeing days, internal career coaches, premium medical & dental coverage, and so much more!

We are an equal opportunity employer that deeply values a diverse community. Thrive has a zero tolerance policy on bullying, discrimination and harassment of any kind against race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, ability status, family or parental status, age, or anything else that makes you uniquely you. We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of this. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. The innovation, creation and execution of the work of Thrive Digital takes place on stolen, unceded, and occupied Indigenous land across Canada - on the traditional territory of First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples from coast to coast.