# Director, Performance Marketing

**Company**: Brex
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $221,480 to $276,850
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Summary

We are seeking a Director, Performance Marketing to lead Brex's performance marketing strategy and paid media investments, driving customer acquisition, revenue growth, and brand awareness.

## Responsibilities

- Own Brex's paid media strategy and investment across Brand and Growth, accountable for qualified pipeline, self-serve signups, and the revenue they produce.

- Manage and optimize a growing, multimillion-dollar media budget, balancing acquisition volume, LTV, and incremental revenue contribution.

- Build an in-house digital media center of excellence, transitioning brand media buying from a traditional agency model while strategically leveraging platforms and managed services.

- Scale existing paid search and paid social programs, while expanding investment in YouTube, connected TV, programmatic, and other upper-funnel channels.

- Develop an integrated full-funnel investment strategy, connecting demand creation and brand awareness to downstream acquisition, pipeline, and revenue outcomes.

- Partner with Marketing Operations, Data, and Finance to improve measurement, forecasting, budget pacing, and investment allocation across channels.

- Translate existing attribution and customer journey data into actionable insights, building reporting and analytical frameworks that inform media strategy and optimization.

- Drive rapid experimentation across channels, audiences, and creative, identifying opportunities to restructure underperforming campaigns and scale successful investments.

- Partner with Brand and Creative teams to develop high-performing static and video advertising, providing actionable feedback on messaging, formats, and creative effectiveness.

- Lead and develop a growing performance marketing team, establishing clear accountability, scalable execution practices, and AI-enabled workflows to increase operating leverage.

## Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in performance marketing, paid acquisition, or digital media, with demonstrated experience scaling multichannel advertising programs.

- Direct experience managing $30M+ in annual paid media spend, with measurable impact on customer acquisition and revenue growth.

- Deep expertise in performance marketing and acquisition economics, including LTV, ROI, incremental revenue, and revenue-based optimization.

- Proven ability to develop full-funnel media strategies, connecting upper-funnel brand investments to measurable improvements in downstream demand, conversion, and revenue.

- Deep hands-on expertise in outline video, connected TV, programmatic, and brand media, plus strong paid social experience across LinkedIn and Meta.

- Strong financial acumen, including budget ownership, forecasting, investment modeling, and data-driven allocation of spend across channels.

- Strong analytical judgment and experience translating attribution, customer journey, and campaign performance data into actionable investment decisions.

- Demonstrated ability to assess and improve campaign structure, channel strategy, and creative performance through rigorous testing and rapid iteration.

- Strong creative judgment, with experience partnering with Brand and Design teams to develop and optimize performance-oriented static and video advertising.

- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams, with a hands-on leadership style and the ability to scale execution without unnecessary organizational complexity.

## Bonus Points

- Experience scaling performance marketing in both high-volume B2C or product-led growth (PLG) environments and B2B, sales-led businesses.

- Experience transitioning media buying from an agency-led model to an in-house team, including evaluating managed-service partners.

- Experience developing incrementality testing, media mix modeling, or advanced full-funnel measurement frameworks.

- Experience in fintech, financial services, or high-growth technology companies.

- Experience leveraging AI and automation to improve media execution, analysis, and team productivity.

## Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $221,480 to $276,850.

## Skills

### Required
- performance marketing
- paid acquisition
- digital media
- LTV
- ROI
- incremental revenue
- revenue-based optimization
- full-funnel media strategies
- brand media
- paid social
- budget ownership
- forecasting
- investment modeling
- data-driven allocation

### Nice to have
- scaling performance marketing
- transitioning media buying
- incrementality testing
- media mix modeling
- advanced full-funnel measurement frameworks
- fintech
- financial services
- high-growth technology companies
- AI and automation

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