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Performance Marketing Specialist
$130K-$160K base + equityThe company is a San Francisco startup (founded 2025, team of 4-5. It connects to email, calendar, meeting notes and CRM, drafts replies, updates the CRM and spins up deal rooms for you. Think Claude Code for client-facing work. There is also a Mac app.
This is the first performance marketing hire. You will own paid acquisition end to end, with Meta as the main channel and Google as a strong second: campaign structure, creative testing, reading the data, budget calls and weekly improvement, all hands-on in the ad accounts. You will also bring ad concepts and spot creative trends, and work closely with the Head of Growth and the CEO ahead of the public launch.
Location: San Francisco, in the office. Start date: within 30 days. Interview: 30-minute screen with the Head of Growth, then an onsite with the Head of Growth and CEO.
Salary: $130K-$160K base + equity.
What we're looking for
- •2+ years hands-on, in-account running Meta Ads AND Google Ads campaigns end to end (not agency-only, not reviewing reports)
- •Hands-on technical depth on Meta: pixel/CAPI setup, event optimisation, campaign and ad-set structure
- •Hands-on Google Ads experience to match, not a thin secondary skill
- •Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate; full-time in the office (5 days a week)
- •Wants the ambiguity and grind of an early-stage startup; happy to be the first performance marketing hire
- •Experience at an early-stage (Seed to Series B) AI-forward, prosumer, consumer or PLG product
- •Can show real numbers from campaigns you built and scaled (spend, CAC, payback, what you changed)
- •Individual contributor who stays in the account day to day (2-7 years in performance marketing, no Director or VP titles)
- •Eligible to work in the US without sponsorship
Nice to have
- •Marketed an AI-first prosumer or PLG product (Cursor, Canva, PhotoRoom type)
- •Scaled a mobile or Mac app from early traction via paid (download to paid funnel)
- •Creative ad concepting instinct and trend spotting
- •0-to-1 experience as a founding or first marketing hire
- •Comfortable with Slack-native or workflow AI products and their self-serve funnels