Digital Trendteam is looking for a Performance Strategist to join our Performance department. In this role, you will ensure our operations thrive by establishing efficient processes, implementing best practices, and fostering growth. You will lead a high-performing team, develop and execute project growth initiatives, and enhance systems to build, maintain, and grow client relationships, all while upholding our company philosophy.

What You'll Do

Establish efficient processes and implement best practices within the Performance department.
Foster team growth in technical and strategic areas.
Develop and execute project growth initiatives.
Lead a high-performing team and uphold our company philosophy.
Enhance systems used to build, maintain, and grow client relationships.
Lead teams in research, media planning, and strategic roadmaps across mid-sized projects.
Mobilize internal teams from inception through to hands-on execution and optimization.
Report to stakeholders on key performance indicators.
Organize and lead high-impact client relationship drivers like onboards and business reviews.
Use cutting-edge methods and tools to achieve successful client outcomes.
Lead strategic conversations with small to mid-sized clients one-on-one.
Proactively monitor client sentiment to address challenges and opportunities.
Provide constructive feedback to team members.
Work with senior operational teams to address resourcing, performance, or economic shifts.
Elevate people you work with to bring best-in-class solutions to projects.
Support the development of team members to grow company performance expertise.
Manage or mentor team members directly.
Address role performance challenges proactively and appropriately.
Set team members up for success to continuously elevate their roles on projects.
Give expert feedback and approach difficult conversations with confidence and care.
Lead a culture of project excellence in the Performance department.
Guide daily interactions, develop initiatives, and align individual efforts with organizational goals.
Monitor team workflow and use business intelligence tools to optimize people and project allocation.
Lead team-level conversations and support initiatives that keep us on the leading edge of performance marketing.
Get buy-in, work through change management, and collaborate with cross-functional support as needed.

What We're Looking For

Experience executing, planning, and maintaining multi-channel, full funnel performance marketing accounts of $200k+ USD media spend per month at a consistently positive ROI across multiple platforms at a time.
Experience directly collaborating with and delegating to junior team members as a senior account manager.
Experience contributing to the development of multiple team members by leading training and providing strategic guidance.
Advanced analytical skills and experience using visualization tools to pull, sort, analyze and draw insight from ad platforms and business intelligence tools.
Experience managing performance media across a range of business verticals and sizes.
Experience responsible for pacing, forecasting and reporting the impact of performance media on overarching business goals.
Experience successfully managing client and/or key stakeholder relationships via weekly touchpoints, quarterly business presentations and asynchronous channels.
Experience resolving difficult stakeholder situations, keeping priorities organized and objectives aligned.
Experience consistently receiving buy-in on strategic proposals or deliverables.
Experience effectively communicating with clients on marketing concepts such as incrementality, KPI selection, attribution and business economics.
Experience incorporating marketing measurement considerations into strategic approaches.

Technical Stack

Meta, Google Ads, YouTube, Display, Programmatic Platforms, TikTok, Twitter, Spotify
Google Sheets, Excel, Google Data Studio, Tableau
Slack, Asana

Team & Environment

You will be part of the Performance department, focusing on performance marketing.

Benefits & Compensation

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
Compensation: $78,000 - $94,000 NZD

Work Mode

This is a local-country position based in New Zealand, operating under a remote-first and flexible work model.

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