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Demand Generation Manager (m/f/d)

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on building a repeatable demand-generation and lifecycle engine for Kayzen. You will collaborate with various teams to drive measurable growth through targeted campaigns and marketing operations, ensuring effective lead management and communication strategies.

Qualifications

  • At least 2 years of proven hands-on experience in demand generation, B2B growth, lifecycle/CRM or marketing operations.
  • Strong practical command of HubSpot or a comparable marketing automation/CRM platform.
  • Experience planning and optimizing B2B paid acquisition campaigns, with knowledge of LinkedIn and Google Ads.
  • Ability to read and leverage data for creating stories that make Kayzen stand out.
  • Clear and fluent English communication skills and sound judgment when shaping targeted email and campaign messaging.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and run targeted B2B acquisition campaigns across relevant paid channels.
  • Own the marketing-qualified lead (MQL) engine, including lead capture and nurture journeys.
  • Build and optimize email campaigns, newsletters, and lifecycle communications.
  • Develop clear reporting and dashboards for funnel performance and campaign effectiveness.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Detail Oriented
  • Collaboration

About the company

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Kayzen

  • AdTech & MarTech
  • Scaleup
  • 51–200
Kayzen powers the world’s best mobile marketing teams to take programmatic in-house. Built on the three key pillars of performance, transparency and control, Kayzen is a software platform which enables leading app developers, agencies and entrepreneurs to run programmatic user acquisition, retargeting and upper funnel campaigns in-house with an unprecedented scale of >100bn daily ad requests from 1bn+ unique users worldwide. Kayzen is accessible through its APIs or user interface and supports mobile video, playable / MRAID, native and banner ad campaigns.

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Job description

πŸ“ Remote EMEA β€’ Business β€’ Kayzen

πŸ‘‹ Hello! I am Sebastian, Marketing Lead at Kayzen, and I am looking for a Demand Generation Manager to join our team.

But wait, you have not heard of Kayzen before?

Kayzen is the Apps DSP: an AI-native platform built on its own bidding engine, for buying app inventory across mobile and connected TV screens. App developers, agencies, media buyers and ad platforms use Kayzen to drive full-funnel outcomes across both screens, from awareness and consideration to installs, purchases and calls. Available through self-serve and managed services, Kayzen combines machine-learning optimisation with bid- and impression-level transparency, granular control over buying decisions, and AI capabilities that connect campaign data to the AI assistants teams already use. Kayzen’s vision is to democratise programmatic marketing by making it accessible to every team. Headquartered in Berlin, Kayzen operates globally.

🀝 The Team

Join me as part of Kayzen’s growing marketing team, where we collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business to drive our strategy forward.You'll collaborate alongside a high-performing, international group spanning customer success, sales, product, engineering, data, operations, design, and marketing. We are strongly guided by the values of positivity, curiosity, collaboration and ownership. Together, we share a strong drive to transform the advertising industry. Sounds interesting?

Responsibilities

We are looking for a hands-on, data-minded B2B marketer to build a repeatable demand-generation and lifecycle engine for Kayzen. You will own the operational foundations that turn campaigns, contacts and customer signals into measurable growth, combining paid acquisition, CRM, automation and continuous optimization.

Growth, CRM & Marketing Operations

  • Plan and run targeted B2B acquisition campaigns across relevant paid channels, testing audiences, messages and conversion paths to generate qualified leads.
  • Own the marketing-qualified lead (MQL) engine: lead capture, segmentation, scoring, routing and nurture journeys in close partnership with Sales.
  • Build and optimize email campaigns, newsletters and lifecycle communications so the right audiences receive relevant messages at the right time.
  • Configure, connect and continuously improve HubSpot, forms, campaign tracking and supporting MarTech tools; automate repeatable workflows and reduce manual effort.
  • Develop clear reporting and dashboards for funnel performance, campaign effectiveness, lead quality and lifecycle engagement; turn insights into practical improvements.
  • Collaborate with the Marketing Lead and Sales team on account-based marketing (ABM), target-account activation and follow-up workflows.
  • Design and run focused experiments across landing pages, conversion journeys, paid channels and, where relevant, SEO/AEO, measuring what works before scaling.
  • Maintain clean, reliable CRM data, audience lists and attribution processes, and proactively troubleshoot workflow or integration issues.
  • Partner with Product Marketing and Events & Community to activate launches, content, event leads and partner campaigns through coordinated growth and nurture programs.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of proven hands-on experience in demand generation,B2B growth,  lifecycle/CRM or marketing operations, ideally in AdTech.
  • Strong practical command of HubSpot or a comparable marketing automation/CRM platform, including segmentation, workflows, email programs and reporting.
  • Experience planning and optimizing B2B paid acquisition campaigns; you understand how to attract and convert business buyers, experience with linkedin & google ads is a must. GEO experience is a big plus.
  • Ability to read and leverage data for creating stories that make Kayzen stand out.
  • Analytical and detail-oriented: comfortable working with data, funnel metrics, campaign tracking, lead quality and performance dashboards to make decisions.
  • Enjoyment of connecting tools, fixing processes and building robust automated workflows; able to work independently from setup through optimization.
  • Working knowledge of lead lifecycle management, MQL handoffs and collaboration with Sales teams; ABM exposure is a plus.
  • Clear and fluent English communication skills and sound judgment when shaping targeted email and campaign messaging.
  • Familiarity with programmatic advertising, DSPs or the mobile/CTV ecosystem is a plus; willingness to learn Kayzen’s market is essential.
  • Comfortable prioritizing competing requests and owning outcomes in a fast-paced, remote-first, international team.

What do we offer?

  • Exceptional career growth and learning opportunity
  • A unique opportunity to be part of an experienced team of industry experts and entrepreneurs reshaping the AdTech space.
  • Direct, day-to-day work experience with the leadership team.
  • A fun, driven, and multinational team located across Europe, India, Argentina and soon the US
  • A flexible work-from-home arrangement
  • A 500-dollar home-office setup budget 
  • A 1000-dollar annual learning and development budget 

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