Performance Marketing Manager London (Canada) Remote (Canada) Digital Extremes Posted a day ago[...]

Gamecompanies; Ontario; Remote; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading video game development studio in Ontario is seeking a Performance Marketing Manager to drive user acquisition and optimize campaign performance. The ideal candidate will have 2-4 years of experience in performance marketing, a strong analytical mindset, and proficiency in ad platforms. This role offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits, alongside the opportunity to work within a vibrant gaming culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary with potential bonus opportunities

Excellent benefits and paid time off

Matching RRSP or Simple IRA

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Professional development and career support

Work-life balance wellness subsidies

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience in performance marketing or growth roles.
• Experience running multi-channel campaigns across international markets.
• Strong analytical skills to extract insights and inform optimization.

Responsibilities

• Own user acquisition and retargeting campaigns across channels.
• Develop and optimize marketing strategies and creative testing.
• Partner with Analytics to monitor and report on campaign performance.

Skills

Performance marketing

Media buying

Analytical skills

Project management

Creative strategy

Tools

Meta Ads

Google Ads

AppsFlyer

JIRA

Trello

Slack

MS Office

Google Suite

Job description

Overview

As Performance Marketing Manager, you will take ownership of campaign execution across multiple paid channels, focusing on driving user acquisition and optimizing performance to meet growth targets. You’ll work closely with Analysts, Creatives, and external partners to uncover insights, scale high performing campaigns, and support data driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Own new user acquisition and retargeting campaigns to drive high ROI ensuring efficient budget allocation across channels.
• Develop and optimize performance marketing strategies, including creative testing frameworks, funnel optimizations, and platform specific best practices.
• Identify and prioritize growth opportunities through market research, competitive analysis, and performance trends.
• Partner with Analytics to define KPIs, build actionable dashboards, and monitor campaign performance to inform decision making.
• Collaborate with Creative teams to brief, iterate, and evaluate high performing marketing assets.
• Manage vendor and platform relationships, ensuring alignment on goals and performance metrics.
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience in performance marketing, media buying, or growth roles, with proven success running multi-channel campaigns (ie : social, search, mobile app, console media, display) across international markets.
• Proven experience running ROI-positive paid media campaigns across multiple channels and markets (mobile, console, PC).
• Comfortable with mobile attribution, MMPs (like AppsFlyer), and event-based optimization strategies.
• Strong analytical mindset; experience pulling data to extract insights and inform optimization.
• Confident navigating ambiguity and working autonomously in a fast-paced, live service environment.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (analytics, creative, product) to align goals and drive outcomes.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple campaigns and deadlines.
• Proficiency in ad platforms (ie : Meta Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, Reddit Ads, etc)
• Knowledge of JIRA, Trello and Slack and proficiency with MS Office and Google Suite
• Clever, creative personality with a passion for gamer culture. Avid gamer is a plus!
• Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada at the time of application.

About Digital Extremes

Founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world's top independent video game development studios. Originating with the co-creation of Epic Games' multi-million unit selling Unreal franchise including Unreal and Unreal Tournament, Digital Extremes went on to develop Dark Sector, BioShock for the PlayStation3, the BioShock 2 multiplayer campaign, and The Darkness II. The studio has reached its greatest critical and commercial success with the free-to-play action game, Warframe , boasting a global community of 75 million registered players on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S, Nintendo Switch, and iOS. The studio's most recently announced project is the much anticipated Soulframe , an open-world action-fantasy MMORPG title that is currently under development.

Digital Extremes is headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada, and is proud to be selected as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers , achieving this recognition for the last ten years in a row.

Benefits & Culture

Our culture is centered on providing great opportunities to our employees so that everyone feels they are making a meaningful impact. Developing new and existing talent is our long-term focus. We are honored that our work environment has been consistently recognized as one of “Canada’s Top 100 Employers”. We summon you to join our elite team!

The rewards of a career with Digital Extremes include :

• Competitive salary with potential bonus opportunities
• Excellent benefits and paid time off
• Matching RRSP or Simple IRA
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Virtual access to Dialogue or Guardian, our mental wellness and healthcare services app
• Professional development and career support
• Work-life balance wellness subsidies
• Be part of “Giving Back” through a multitude of fundraising venues at DE
• Employee events and team building exercises
• Please note, some benefits may be subject to eligibility for employees.

Join Us

Digital Extremes is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process. We thank you for your interest, however, only those candidates selected for the next steps in the hiring process will be contacted.