About Toptal
Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members based around the globe, Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce.
We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold.
Job Summary:
Toptal is looking for a Director of Performance Marketing who will be responsible for hiring, managing, and scaling the Performance Marketing team at Toptal. In this role, you will own and optimize the paid media strategy management of Toptal’s global Social & Display campaigns, with the objective of acquiring quality clients who are looking to tap into Toptal’s highly skilled talent. In addition to your team, you will be supported by full-scale SEM, Business Analytics, Creative, and Growth Product teams to tackle all aspects of the channel, from strategy to execution to analysis.
You will be expected to be both a facilitator and generator of world-class growth performance marketing ideas that are put into action at Toptal. You will lead our performance marketing from every aspect, including facilitating, generating, organizing, planning, and executing all performance marketing ideas and techniques.
This is a remote position. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US at the time of hire. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.
Responsibilities:
The following information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or required skills.
- Maximize paid media-driven revenue by providing Toptal with a steady stream of high-potential prospective clients.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy aligned with the company’s overall business objectives.
- Identify new opportunities for brand growth and audience engagement across LinkedIn, other paid social media, display, OLV, affiliate, and other advertising channels.
- Help Executives, Marketing Strategists, and the Senior Leadership Team craft and hit KPIs that relate to their initiatives and OKRs.
- Assist in building forecasts and projections that relate to the expected ROI on marketing campaigns, traffic, and user acquisition, and other areas of marketing that require robust and rigid financial analysis.
- Work with the Business Analytics and Marketing Strategy teams, extrapolating insights and turning those insights into actionable strategies that the Performance Marketing team can leverage to create marketing initiatives.
- Help guide the prioritization of marketing-related initiatives across the Marketing function as Toptal scales.
- Ensure the team is maximizing the impact of all performance marketing experiments by maintaining organized playbooks, automated systems, and dashboards that track the states and thresholds related to each experiment.
- Oversee the interviewing and hiring of new team members as the team continues to scale.
- Facilitate effective brainstorming sessions which contribute to the generation of new ideas that push the boundaries of what’s possible within Performance Marketing.
- Own Paid Media channel budgets and manage all day-to-day operations, including campaign strategy, execution, analysis, and reporting.
- Constantly ideate new ways for your team to grow and improve channel efficiency.
- Work with members of the Paid Media, Growth, Product, Content, Marketing Strategy, and Analytics teams to maximize the value provided by Paid Media.
- Ensure Paid Media is running in accordance with industry best practices and maintain immaculate long-term tracking.
- Establish objectives and initiatives for the team, recommend the team’s structure and jobs, and organize, assign, delegate, oversee, and monitor work.
- Coach and mentor team members, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and implement performance improvement plans, if needed.
Qualifications and Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree is required in Business, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent.
- Expertise in paid social and programmatic display, including 6+ years of experience with annual Paid Media budgets in excess of $5M.
- Experience in the end-to-end ideation, implementation, analysis, and promotion of Paid Media growth strategies.
- You must have the ability and willingness to review, with meticulous attention to detail, all of the final work product that your team creates. This needs to hold true for both analytical and creative work.
- Demonstrated experience growing revenue at scale via performance marketing, preferably within a B2B technology or services company.
- Experience with A/B testing strategies.
- Experience with summarizing results into slide decks.
- Experience presenting to large teams and executives.
- Impeccable written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Experience working with a number of stakeholders, both internal and external, across time zones and geographies.
- Innate curiosity and willingness to learn, and an obsession with growth performance.
- This is a remote position that requires a motivated self-starter. No one will monitor your working hours but you will be expected to consistently contribute value and deliver results.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
- You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.
Essential Job Functions
- Regularly and reliably attend scheduled virtual team meetings on camera.
- Work independently with minimal supervision.
- Use all required digital collaboration tools.
- Prioritize and self-manage workflows and deadlines.
US FLSA Classification: Full-Time/Exempt
The US-based salary range for this full-time position is $170,000 - $230,000 per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Please note that the US-based salary range does not include the value of Toptal’s benefit offerings. In the US, Toptal’s benefit offerings include participation in a 401(k) retirement plan; medical, dental, and vision health insurance plans; basic life insurance coverage and short-term and long-term disability coverage; access to flexible spending, dependent care, and health savings accounts; access to telehealth virtual doctors; an employee assistance program; and flexible paid time off.
