Senior Manager Acquisition Marketing
Leads DAT’s multi-channel acquisition marketing function across paid media, lifecycle, affiliate, influencer, advocacy, and social. The role combines hands-on channel leadership, agency and budget management, team development, and performance measurement, requiring 8+ years of acquisition or performance marketing experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Manage the marketing channel pool across paid media, lifecycle and email, affiliate, influencer and advocacy, and social, holding the team accountable for craft quality.
- Own the paid media agency relationship, including scope, spend pacing, and performance reporting against segment CPL ceilings.
- Direct paid acquisition across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and 6sense; scale channels that perform within ceilings and disqualify those that do not.
- Coordinate lifecycle and email execution on SFMC, including supporting in-house ownership.
- Coordinate and guide the affiliate marketing channel, including supporting in-house ownership.
- Set channel-level standards, briefs, and quality assurance processes.
- Partner with the Lead Marketing Analyst on measurement, test design, and channel evaluations.
- Coach and develop specialists and own hiring for additional channel positions.
- Manage channel budgets and vendor invoices with Finance and Marketing Operations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in acquisition or performance marketing, including 3+ years managing people and agency relationships.
- Deep hands-on paid media experience across search and paid social, with demonstrated CPL and CAC discipline.
- Experience managing paid media agency relationships, including scope, spend fees, and performance accountability.
- Working knowledge of lifecycle and email marketing platforms; SFMC familiarity is a plus.
- Working knowledge of affiliate marketing; B2B affiliate marketing familiarity is a plus.
- Comfort with attribution limitations and reporting against ceilings rather than vanity metrics.
- Track record of building and coaching a multi-channel team.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Compensation
- Washington-based salary range: $162,000.00–$206,000.00, plus target bonus.
Skills
Paid Media, Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta Ads, Linkedin Ads, 6Sense, Lifecycle Marketing, Email Marketing, Sfmc, Affiliate Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Performance Marketing, Cpl, Cac, Marketing Attribution
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