Upstart
Senior Manager, Performance Marketing, Paid Social
$139K–$192K
United States +2 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- United States
Remote
remote - Experience
- 7+ years in performance marketing or digital media buying.
About the job
Own and scale profitable paid social and video acquisition for Upstart’s Personal Loans business, leading media strategy, creative testing, audience development, and performance optimization.
What you'll do
- Manage paid social and video campaign strategy, setup, bidding, budgets, pacing, and performance, working with the media agency to meet volume, CAC, and profitability goals.
- Develop creative and audience strategies and run structured tests across creative, targeting, bidding, placements, geographies, and funnel experiences.
- Partner cross-functionally to improve acquisition from impression through funded loan, using analytics and experiments to guide investment decisions.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of experience in performance marketing or digital media buying, including significant hands-on paid social and video campaign experience.
- Proven record owning and scaling paid social acquisition against CAC, CPA, ROI, revenue, or profitability goals.
- Expertise in paid social campaign structure, bidding, budgeting, audience management, creative testing, and optimization.
- Experience with external media agencies, paid media creative strategy, analytical experimentation, and geographic targeting or audience segmentation.
Nice to have
- Experience in regulated or longer-consideration-cycle industries such as financial services, fintech, lending, insurance, or marketplaces.
- Experience launching channels or products from zero to one, or improving landing pages and funnels with product and engineering teams.
Pay
$138,600 — $192,000 USD (base salary)
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