Hybrid Performance Marketing Lead

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About the role

  • Advertising/Performance Marketing Team Lead at Web Summit driving paid media strategy and managing a growing team across various platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the paid media strategy for all Web Summit events, ensuring activity contributes directly to lead and revenue targets.
  • Drive measurable ROAS and ensure paid media meaningfully contributes to pipeline and overall marketing performance.
  • Manage, mentor and grow the advertising team, with clear workflows, expectations and development plans.
  • Oversee campaign planning and execution across Meta, Google, LinkedIn and emerging platforms, ensuring quality, accuracy and alignment with our messaging and creative approach.
  • Partner closely with creative teams to brief, refine and evolve copy and assets so campaigns land clearly and resonate with each audience.
  • Own the annual advertising budget and monthly performance tracking, identifying efficiencies and areas for reinvestment.
  • Partner with Analytics, Data Science and FP&A to create transparent, actionable and accurate performance reporting and forecasting.
  • Build documentation, testing frameworks and repeatable systems that support learning and scale across events.
  • Work cross-functionally with marketing operations, website, email and data teams to ensure full-funnel alignment and fuel pipeline generation.
  • Collaborate with the Advertising Principal Lead on experimentation, new platform testing and long-term growth initiatives.
  • Ensure adherence to best practice across QA, spend pacing, attribution tracking and platform governance.

Requirements

  • 7+ years’ experience in advertising or performance marketing, with hands-on management of Meta, Google and LinkedIn campaigns.
  • Experience in every stage of the paid media cycle, from shaping ideas and audiences to guiding creative, execution, optimisation and reporting.
  • Proven track record of driving strong ROI and ROAS across multi-million-euro media budgets.
  • 2+ years’ experience managing and developing teams.
  • Understanding of how paid media campaigns are structured, from segmentation and targeting to optimisation, creative and attribution.
  • Ability to lead creative thinking as well as structured execution, bringing strong judgment to messaging, positioning and audience-content fit.
  • Experience tailoring strategy across countries and regions, adapting audience and messaging to suit local dynamics.
  • Comfortable working with paid media reporting frameworks and translating insight into clear next steps.
  • Ability to brief and refine copy and creative for paid channels, ensuring messaging is clear, relevant and aligned with the audience.
  • Work well cross-functionally and bring clarity, alignment and accountability through communication.
  • Strategic thinker who’s comfortable diving into campaign detail when needed.
  • Enjoy building systems, documentation and ways of working that support scalable, high-quality delivery.

Benefits

  • Subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme (EAP) and more.
  • Pension contribution up to 6%(Irish based only)
  • A dedicated in-house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and resources to help you excel in your career development.
  • Company laptop, generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
  • Our very own Tramway Team, which drives community and morale-boosting events for employees to participate in.
  • Annual company get-togethers, charity days, and monthly wellbeing talks.
  • Wellness subsidy issued to all employees of €1000 per year

Job title

Performance Marketing Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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