Performance Marketing Manager
Are you ready to drive SunGod's growth as our Performance Marketing Manager? - optimse campaigns, unlock new audiences & turn data into impact for a brand built on innovation, sport and adventure.
At a glance:
🕑 Full-time starting with hybrid working - Immediate Opportunity (November - January start)
😎 Mid-level (minimum 6 years experience)
💰 Experienced-based salary between £45,000 - £50,000
📍 London (minimum 3 office days/week)
⭐ Five-stars on Glassdoor
🌴 Generous 30 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
🏆 Leading benefits package & competitive salary
🅱 Work for a Certified B Corporation™
💹 Opportunity to get in at the ground floor of a purpose-driven, fast-paced, fast-growth company in the outdoor industry; lots of scope for your growth!
What is the job role?
We're looking for a creative, pro-active and detail-oriented Performance Marketing Manager to join our marketing team. You will lead our paid social and search strategy and campaigns that drive growth and brand awareness. This is a hands-on role for a creative, strategic thinker who isn't afraid to pair data with out-of-the-box thinking to get things done.
You'll have the autonomy to manage and optimise campaigns across various platforms, working closely with our internal teams and our external Performance Marketing Agency. We are looking for someone who can see the bigger picture and understands how paid social fits into a cohesive customer experience across all marketing channels.
Key Responsibilities:
✔ Own the Creative Paid Content Strategy & Growth Plan: Lead the performance marketing strategy across all key platforms (Meta,Youtube, Google as well as TikTok, building a clear roadmap for sustainable growth that drives brand awareness and commercial results.
✔ Deliver & Optimise Campaigns: Plan, launch and optimise campaigns end-to-end, managing budgets and forecasts to hit revenue and efficiency goals.
✔ Collaborate with the Marketing team: to deliver industry leading campaigns that champion the brand and stand out in a crowded market.
✔ Full-Funnel & Creative Partnership: Balance prospecting, retargeting and retention activity, and translate performance data into clear, actionable insights for the creative team to amplify storytelling and cut-through.
✔ Test, Measure & Learn: Design and run structured tests — from A/B experiments to incrementality studies — to understand what’s truly driving performance, and apply those insights to campaign planning and creative development.
✔ Collaborate & Educate: Partner with Tech, Ecom, SEO and wider marketing teams to create a seamless customer journey, while raising the collective level of performance marketing knowledge across the business.
✔ Drive Agency Performance: Set goals, keep our external agency accountable, and ensure they continually push performance forward.
✔ Understand SunGod’s triple bottom line of people, planet and profit, and incorporate this into your job role every day.
Who are we looking for?
The ideal person has the following skills, experiences and competencies:
✔ Creative understanding of both brand and full funnel marketing, paired with strong data and analytical skills.
✔ Deep expertise in creating creative paid campaigns across Meta, Youtube, Google Ads (Search/Shopping). Reddit, Pinterest, and TikTok desired, not essential.
✔ Proven experience as a Performance Marketing Manager or a similar role, either in house, agency side.
✔ Proven ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions.
✔ A proactive and autonomous work style, with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
✔ Excellent communication, presentation and collaboration skills cross function.
✔ A strategic mindset with a strong understanding of how to build a unified customer experience.
✔ Excellent commercial acumen with an eye for monitoring industry trends.
✔ You're a doer who takes initiative and gets things done, able to focus on the key objectives.
✔ Able to align creative and data insights and use them to inform briefs independently.
What can we offer you?
Certified B Corporation
Working for a Certified B Corp means joining a community using business as a force for good, contributing to the triple bottom line; People, Planet and Profit.
Benefits
✔ Enjoy flexible working hours and locations;
✔ Generous 30 days holiday plus bank holidays;
✔ Competitive starting salary with annual performance-based reviews and bonus scheme;
✔ Professional training, life-skill & development budget;
✔ Free mental health support with unlimited access to Spill therapy;
✔ Cycle to work scheme & annual bike servicing;
✔ HealthShield Cash Plan;
✔ Monthly financial health benefit;
✔ 16 hours of fully paid volunteering annually;
✔ Charitable donation matching;
✔ Annual SunGod team events;
✔ Free product plus a family & friends discount;
✔ Dynamic, stimulating and rewarding work in a purpose-driven company;
✔ Central London office
Flexible working
We thrive with high-performing individuals, offering both growth and flexibility in return. We prioritise your impact, not the time spent at a desk. We encourage the team to fit in hobbies and personal commitments around their work time, ensuring objectives are met and output is always to the highest standard.
As a collaborative team, we value a minimum of 3 days in the office each week, fostering our close-knit team.
Culture of Continuous Development & Learning
Our growth doesn't end at a company level, we endorse and encourage individual growth through developing our professional skills, evolving careers and honing life-skills. There is budget, time and, most importantly, support given to every employee.
Diversity & Inclusion at SunGod
SunGod values a diverse workforce. We’re committed to recruiting people from all walks of life and backgrounds to reflect our customers and our community and to help make our business stronger. We're not looking for "culture fit" candidates, instead, we're looking for those who expand our culture, challenge business as usual and bring their whole selves to work. To support our people we offer family-friendly, inclusive recruitment and employment policies, flexible working arrangements and a range of benefits to suit your circumstances.
What to expect from this application…
This application will ask a few questions about you and your experience.
You will be required to upload a CV at this stage, so it is ready for a future stage.
Based on your application, you may then be invited to complete a skills-based task followed by a panel interview and a final interview.
Blind Applications
In the first stages of our process, your name and other details will be hidden from your CV and application to remove potential unconscious bias in our hiring processes, and to ensure we hire the best candidate for the role.
A tip before you start...
Before you begin, we recommend you take a moment to ask yourself these questions: Why me? Why this role? Why SunGod?
- Department
- Marketing
- Role
- Performance Marketing Manager
- Locations
- London Office
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Yearly salary
- £45,000 - £50,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
About SunGod
SunGod is a British performance eyewear brand with a simple mission: to See Better. Through our lenses, through our actions and through doing business better.
Founded as a challenger brand in 2013, SunGod has grown into a globally recognised performance eyewear business, that is performance-driven, community-built, and sustainable to the core. SunGod eyewear is worn by elite athletes and teams around the world, and our partners - who range from World Tour cycling team INEOS Grenadiers, to iconic mainstream sports properties such as McLaren F1 Team and Major League Baseball - prove the performance and popularity of our products at the very highest level.
As a certified B Corp and 1% For The Planet member, with carbon neutral products and operations, we've built a business model that puts people, planet, and profit on equal footing. Our mission is to See Better, forcing positive change across the eyewear industry, and together with our global community of partners, ambassadors, athletes and customers, SunGod’s mission is multiplied.
Join us on our journey to See Better, together.
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