Performance Manager (Programmatic) (Performance Marketing) (Canada)

Thrive Digital•Vancouver, BC

9h•CA$94,000 - CA$123,000•Remote

About The Position

Thrive is a leading full-funnel digital marketing agency supporting growth for some of North America’s most ambitious companies. We evolve our services through disciplined learning, continuous improvement, and close partnership with our clients - regularly assessing what works, what doesn’t, and where to raise the bar. Our mission is to help companies grow sustainably. To do that, we’ve built deep expertise across performance marketing, brand marketing, digital design, and data and measurement, managing more than $5 billion USD in advertising spend over the past decade. Our work spans startups, scale-ups, and enterprise organizations, including Alo, Zoom, Slack, Uber, Asana, Masterclass, Snapchat, Change.org, and lululemon. Our culture values curiosity, accountability, and thoughtful problem-solving. We challenge our teams to grow and take ownership of their work while respecting boundaries and long-term sustainability. Thrive is a place where experimentation is encouraged, learning is continuous, and people are supported to do high-quality work they’re proud of - together. This is a build-and-grow moment. We're expanding our programmatic practice, and the work comes with a portfolio most marketers only get to admire from the outside. You'll partner with leading B2B and ecommerce brands to build media strategies that go beyond the traditional Google and Meta mix, using channels like Connected TV, programmatic display, online video, native, and emerging opportunities to drive measurable business growth. You won't just be running campaigns; you'll be the strategic partner helping clients answer bigger questions around audience strategy, incrementality, measurement, and long-term growth. The tactical craft matters, but here it's in service of something bigger: shaping full-funnel media strategies that influence pipeline, customer acquisition, and lifetime value. If you're excited by solving complex business challenges, thinking beyond platform best practices, and helping shape the future of programmatic media, let's chat. Joining the Performance department (performance marketing) as our Performance Manager, you'll be responsible for driving project excellence in Performance Programs by implementing growth strategies, solving complex problems, and fostering team development to ensure that Thrive remains an industry leader in performance marketing. You'll oversee the success of some of our highest priority brands and partnerships, ranging from household names through to brands that are in early growth stages. You'll also be a key contributor to product innovation and project growth initiatives, working amongst a collaborative team to continuously improve our product and service.

Requirements

You've planned and executed multi-channel, full-funnel performance marketing campaigns with media spends exceeding $500k USD per month, delivering consistently positive ROI across programmatic platforms.
You’ve mobilized and led teams of 5-10, providing direct management, training, and strategic guidance to develop junior team members into management roles.
You’ve built and customized dashboards using tools like Google Sheets, Excel, Looker or Tableau to streamline reporting, analyze performance data, and focus on key business objectives and KPIs.
You’ve developed or improved internal initiatives or processes that have been adopted company-wide, elevating performance standards across the organization.
You’ve driven performance media strategy across diverse business verticals, having successfully led pacing, forecasting, and reporting with business objectives, and effectively communicated these strategies to senior stakeholders, including C-Suite executives.
You’ve successfully managed client relationships with multiple stakeholders, delivering strategic recommendations, resolving complex situations, and gaining buy-in through clear and effective communication across meetings and digital channels.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where the role is based. For roles based in Canada, candidates must already be eligible to work in Canada. Thrive does not provide visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Domain: Recognized as a leader in performance marketing at Thrive, you solve client challenges with innovative solutions, advocate for team member career growth, and contribute to agency-wide thought leadership in your area of expertise.
Client: Improve and redefine client success standards at Thrive by championing exceptional client service. Solve client and project issues with performance marketing solutions and provide advice on workflow and resource management.
People: Enhance the Performance department’s expertise by mentoring and managing team members, and contributing to their development through upskilling, training content, workshops, and other company resources.
Company: Make significant contributions to people and projects within the Performance department by solving complex problems, coordinating support, and aligning with stakeholders. Use performance marketing expertise to enhance organizational initiatives and support company goals.
In your first 30 days you’ll familiarize yourself with Thrive’s tools and processes and begin onboarding to projects and teams across your department, identifying performance opportunities and building relationships.
In your first 60 days you’ll be playing an active role across projects, collaborating with teams on day-to-day and longer-term account initiatives. You’ll begin developing processes and strategies to improve team and project success and sharing key insights with others.
In your first 90 days you’ll be stepping into account leadership opportunities, providing support across project planning, strategy, client partnerships and team skills development. You’ll begin collaborating with senior stakeholders across the company, leveraging your experience to provide valuable feedback and move initiatives forward.