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What does the role entail?
One of our key priorities is to scale up performance marketing and make it really effective at driving a lot more high-quality leads, and eventually, revenues. To achieve this, we are looking for a sharp, creative, and enthusiastic performance marketer with experience in driving quality leads across a variety of channels - Google Ads, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Quora, among others.
- Responsible for planning, executing and maintaining performance marketing campaigns across channels
- Responsible for end to end Creative strategy to scale and optimize performance marketing
- Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights
- Run and analyze continuous multiple experiments to find new opportunities for growth and efficiency.
- Demonstrate ability to work at both the planning level (generating ideas for growth) and at the tactical level (managing campaign execution, creating and optimizing campaigns, analyzing traffic data).
- Drive and track KPIs like revenue, conversions, CPA, CPI, etc. on daily basis and create performance reports
What would excite you?
- Complete ownership; there is minimal management and extreme autonomy
- High pedigree, high caliber team.
- Contribute directly to the success of the business & the top-line impact
- Top-of-the-line compensation
- Work from anywhere, forever. All roles at IK are forever remote!
What would excite us?
- 5+ years of dedicated, full-time experience in performance marketing
- Proven track record of Scaling profitable campaigns via creative strategy
- Expertise in rapid scaling up on at least 2 of these 3: Google Ads (Google Search, Google Discovery, Youtube Ads, Google Display Ads), LinkedIn Ads, and Facebook Ads.
- Good experience in other ad platforms like Quora Ads, Reddit Ads, and others
- Highly analytical with expertise in setting up, running, and reporting on experiments, and always sharing insights rather than just data.
- Ability to come up with creative ad ideas
- Good written communication skills
- Experience in hiring, leading and mentoring a team.
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