Senior Performance Marketing Manager, Gusto

$104-155k

Salary dependent on location.

Tableau
Excel
Amplitude
Senior and Expert level
Denver
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

2-3 days a week in office

Gusto

Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform

Be an early applicant

Gusto

Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform

1001+ employees

FintechB2BHRSaaSAccounting

Be an early applicant

$104-155k

Salary dependent on location.

Tableau
Excel
Amplitude
Senior and Expert level
Denver
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

2-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2BHRSaaSAccounting

Company mission

To create a world where work empowers a better life.

Role

Who you are

  • If you have experience with revenue driven campaign management and want to dramatically scale a disruptive company, we would love to hear from you!
  • 6+ years of hands-on-keyboard experience managing $10m+ budgets for paid media programs, including YouTube, Demand Gen, Performance Max, display, and direct mail, ideally with a focus on B2B SaaS
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and present to leadership
  • Strong working knowledge of Excel, including advanced functions
  • Proven track record of building and executing experimentation plans, including creative testing
  • Strong analytical skills and experience using data to drive decision-making
  • Proven track record of accelerating revenue growth via standing up new marketing strategies across multiple markets and channels
  • The ability to think strategically and develop comprehensive, data-driven marketing plans
  • Thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a demonstrated capacity to balance speed and quality
  • Strong knowledge of the media industry and landscape
  • Passionate about Gusto’s mission and the impact we can have on the world
  • Experience with tag management platforms (e.g. Tealium) to implement client-side pixel tracking, server-sider connectors, and audience segmentation

Desirable

  • Fluency with modern business intelligence tools (Amplitude, Tableau, etc.)
  • Experience with understanding campaign impact through various measurement and attribution methodologies (first-touch attribution, multi-touch attribution, media mix modeling, incrementality measurement or similar)
  • Strong working knowledge of digital campaign management platforms (e.g. DV 360, The Trade Desk, or other DSPs)

What the job involves

  • As a Senior Performance Marketing Manager you will be the subject matter expert for go-to-market experimentation across various media executions (e.g. Google ads, Bing ads, content syndication, direct mail)
  • You will build fast-growing marketing programs, focusing on B2B and SaaS
  • You’ll be a member of the Paid Acquisition team and partner closely with our marketing analytics, product marketing, and creative teams to plan, buy, and optimize targeted media campaigns, delivering on direct response goals
  • You’ll scale our programs with multi-million dollar budgets amongst an ambitious and growing team, owning both the strategy and execution
  • You’ll help us devise cross-channel campaigns and help drive advancement in our analytic capabilities
  • Bring your successful experience growing businesses through advertising and innovative thinking together to create break-out successes
  • Launch, scale, and optimize best-in-class paid media campaigns to drive high-value customer acquisition across online (e.g. Demand Gen, Pmax, YouTube) and offline channels (e.g. direct mail)
  • Build net new processes and roadmaps to scale emerging media
  • Drive reporting and analysis on campaign effectiveness to provide actionable insights and make informed decisions for continuous optimizations across operations, targeting, creative, and landing pages
  • Execute and analyze various media campaign studies to measure incremental impact, causal impact, and A/B testing
  • Develop forecasts and budgets, driving and executing spend optimization decisions rapidly
  • Collaborate with other growth teams to formulate hypotheses, automate processes, and execute on experiments in the marketing funnel that will drive exponential revenue for Gusto
  • Partner closely with the Sales team to align marketing strategies with sales objectives, building a unified approach to driving revenue growth across the customer journey

Our take

For many small businesses, vital administrative tasks such as payroll, taxes, and benefits are manual tasks that take time and energy which many SMB owners don’t have. The three co-founders of Gusto – all coming from small business backgrounds – collaborated on a Fintech company that would handle employee payments, benefits administration, and compliance support specifically for small businesses.

The company may have started slowly, as the founders focused on nailing each individual aspect of Gusto’s operations, but has now skyrocketed to unicorn status with more than 200,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. In 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and its position in a competitive market, including two other fintech startups, Ardius and Symmetry.

Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. Although Gusto has found itself impacted by the macroeconomic situation, through the significant effect it has had on its clientele, the company still appears positive for the future after raising funds in 2023 that will see it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to consolidate its platform, for example by integrating with OpenComp to grant its users access to the company's Compensation Intelligence Platform.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

45% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

May 2022

$55m

SERIES E

Aug 2021

$175m

SERIES E

Total funding: $706.1m

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus a variety of mental health resources
  • Flexible vacation - Gusties are encouraged to take the time off they need to continue doing great work
  • Fertility treatments, parental leave, pregnancy termination, caregiving, gender-affirming surgery, hormone treatments, transgender-inclusive services, and more
  • If you work at one of our homebases, enjoy food, drinks, and good conversation — on us
  • Celebrate 5 or 10 years at Gusto and take a month off to recharge
  • Take advantage of internet, phone, commuter, and wellness stipends each month, along with a WFH stipend and cash for anniversaries

Company values

  • Embody a service mindset - Never stop advocating for the needs of others
  • Dream big, then make it real - Be ambitious. Show and do, rather than tell and talk
  • Be proud of the how - Ensure deep integrity in everything you do
  • Embrace an ownership mentality - Take initiative to leave things better than you found them
  • Debate then commit - Share openly, question respectfully, and once a decision is made, commit fully

Company HQ

Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.

Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo, a mobile self-service technologies company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.

Edward Kim

(Head of Engineering)

Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing, a printed photos company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.

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