Director, Paid Ads

Hiive; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock option plan

100% employer-paid health & dental

HQ desk in Vancouver

Downtown Vancouver commuter benefit

Social and team events

Growth into leadership roles

Sponsorship, immigration, relocation

Job summary

Clarity is seeking a Director of Paid Ads in Vancouver to own and accelerate our paid acquisition program. You will lead a multi-channel strategy, optimize attribution, and push AI-driven improvements to scale a fast-growing user base while collaborating with Sales and Private Capital Solutions.

You will manage a multi-million-dollar media budget, drive measurable ROI, and mentor a high-performance team in a fast-paced fintech environment. Compensation reflects expertise and impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in paid media or performance marketing, hands-on on ad platforms.
• Deep Google Ads expertise: campaign architecture, automated bidding, audience signals.
• Managed at least $1M/year in digital ad spend across Google, Meta, LinkedIn (mostly search).
• Strong attribution understanding and ability to explain incrementality or media mix models.
• Excellent analytical skills; proactively pull data and report insights to leadership.
• Passion for Clarity's mission and willingness to weave AI into processes.

Responsibilities

• Own paid media strategy and budget across Google, LinkedIn, and programmatic channels.
• Maintain and expand attribution to reveal channel-level ROI to leadership.
• Run continuous testing across creative, audience, and bidding to boost acquisition efficiency.
• Partner with Sales & Private Capital Solutions to extend paid media to new investor segments.
• Manage ad platforms directly while expanding leverage with AI, agencies, and team members.
• Report on campaign performance, CAC, and pipeline contribution to executives.
• Identify and pilot new channels and AI-driven tools to improve efficiency and reach.

Skills

Paid media strategy

Budget management

Analytics

A/B testing

AI integration

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Google Ads

LinkedIn Ads

Meta Ads

Job description

Clarity is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity. Through its institutional-grade platform, Clarity brings together buyers, sellers, and issuers to facilitate secondary transactions in venture-backed, pre-IPO companies, introducing efficiency, transparency, and standardization to an otherwise opaque asset class.

Recognized as one of Canada's fastest-growing companies and backed by leading U.S. investors, Clarity is profitable, well-capitalized, and building a high-performance team to meet growing demand and pursue new market opportunities.

Interested in learning more about life at Clarity? Check out our careers page to see how you can grow with us!

As a Director, Paid Ads at Clarity, you will own and accelerate our paid acquisition program. We've grown past 100,000 registered users on the back of an extremely fast scaling media budget, up to $5M annually, and we've kept CAC well below LTV the whole way.

We're now at an inflection point. We’ve recently is rebranded, with a new name and identity, and paid acquisition controls whether that event compounds our growth or slows it down. You'll own a major part of that transition.

From there, you'll lead the expansion into new audiences while continuing to scale the program already in place. And you'll bring the analytical rigor to prove what's working so we can push it further.

Responsibilities

• Own paid media strategy and budget across Google, LinkedIn, and other programmatic channels.
• Maintain and expand our marketing attribution that gives leadership clear visibility into channel-level ROI.
• Run a continuous testing program across creative, audience, and bidding to improve acquisition efficiency.
• Partner with Sales & Private Capital Solutions to expand paid media into new investor and issuer segments.
• Manage ad platforms yourself, while expanding leverage with AI, agencies and team members as needed
• Report on campaign performance, CAC, and pipeline contribution to executive leadership.
• Identify and pilot new channels and AI-driven tools to improve efficiency and reach.

Required Skills

• 7+ years in paid media or performance marketing, with your hands on the ad platforms
• Deep Google Ads expertise: campaign architecture, automated bidding, audience signals, and and you stay up to date with new changes on the platform.
• You’ve personally managed a minimum of $1 million a year in digital ad spend across platforms like Google Ads, Meta and LinkedIn, with a majority of that in search.
• In depth attribution understanding. You can walk us through an incrementality test you designed, a media mix model you commissioned, or an attribution argument you settled.
• Extremely strong analytical skills. You pull your own data instead of waiting on a report, and report out necessary details proactively to the business.
• Excited and connected to the mission of Clarity
• You’re already wiring AI into most of what you do

Preferred Skills

• Experience in fintech, financial services, or another regulated industry
• Experience marketing to institutional or high-net-worth audiences
• Strong knowledge of BI tools like Omni, Looker, or PostHog

Compensation: Highly competitive compensation commensurate with experience and contribution.

• Vancouver, BC: $200,000-$240,000

For this role, the estimated total compensation range is listed above. The actual base salary, variable bonus (if applicable), and options grant will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified.

Benefits & Perks

• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing company through our employee stock option plan.
• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health & dental premiums and a Health/Personal Spending Account for Canadian employees. (An employer-subsidized benefits program is available for US-based team members).
• If you are based in Vancouver, enjoy a dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.
• Vancouver based employees enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our downtown HQ.
• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Clarity Women’s Network events.
• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.
• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.
• Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Clarity is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.

AI, automated tools, and applicant privacy notice

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Compensation

• Vancouver, BC: Total Compensation CA$200K – CA$240K
• Offers Equity
• Offers Bonus