Performance Manager (SEM/Social)

This is a national, award-winning digital agency running paid media for some of Australia's biggest and best-known brands, backed by the country's largest independent media group. They're a Google Premier Partner, and Google has recognised them for how they look after their people. But the reason people stay six, seven, even eight years has nothing to do with the logos or the awards. It is how the place is built.

They hire smart and trust you to run your patch. You own the strategy on your accounts and make the calls, instead of clearing every decision with four people. The human side is just as deliberate: the team breaks for lunch together, there are monthly lunches and drinks, birthday leave, and a real push toward work-from-anywhere flexibility. It is a team that genuinely likes each other, and it shows.

As Performance Manager, you would own paid media strategy and delivery across a portfolio of retail and eCommerce accounts, the kind running serious monthly spend. Cross-channel is the whole game: Search, Social, Display and Video, across Google, Meta, TikTok and programmatic, with Performance Max and Advantage+ front and centre. You would front the client relationship, plan and pace the budgets, feed into new business pitches, and bring on the specialists coming up behind you.

What you'll own

• Lead paid media strategy and delivery across a portfolio of retail and eCommerce accounts
• Drive cross-channel performance across Search, Social, Display and Video
• Plan and pace six-figure monthly budgets across Google, Meta, TikTok and programmatic
• Own the client relationship and turn campaign data into decisions clients trust
• Feed performance insight into new business pitches
• Mentor and grow the specialists in your team

What good looks like

• You've run performance campaigns for 4+ years, agency-side, across Google, Meta and programmatic
• You've handled retail or eCommerce accounts with monthly budgets north of $100k
• You know Performance Max and Advantage+ well enough to make the automation work for you, not the other way round
• You're fluent in GA4 and comfortable with Merchant Centre and feed optimisation
• You read campaign data fast and explain it in a way clients act on

Are you 60-70% fit to the job? No worries, apply anyway and let's get a chat set up.

We require overseas applicants to have existing work rights in Australia. No sponsorship is available for this opportunity.

Kindred is a human-first talent partner for digital, eCommerce, and performance marketing professionals across Australia. We place the right people, not the most people. Every hire through Kindred includes a donation to a charity of your choosing.