Global Performance Marketing Manager Leeds, UK

GoCardless; Leeds; On-site; GBP 47,200 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing support

Work away scheme

Adaptive working

Equity participation

Parental leave

Learning budget

Generous holiday allowance

Job summary

GoCardless is seeking a Global Performance Marketing Manager to own and scale its paid media strategy across global demand generation campaigns. In this role, you will collaborate with various teams to architect campaigns, define audience segmentation, and lead testing frameworks to enhance performance and drive pipeline growth.

The ideal candidate will have 3-4 years of experience in performance marketing, especially within B2B FinTech, and possess strong analytical skills to interpret data and optimize campaign performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3-4 years of solid paid media or performance marketing experience.
• Experience with sales-led go-to-market engine.
• Hands-on expertise with paid media platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale paid acquisition across channels.
• Lead media planning and budget allocation.
• Define creative requirements and ad formats.

Skills

Paid media experience

Analytical skills

Agency management

B2B Marketing

Tools

CRM systems

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAP)

Account-Based Marketing (ABM)

Job description

GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start‑ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect and send payments through direct debit, real‑time payments and open banking.

GoCardless processes US$130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one‑off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We use AI‑powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud. And, with open banking connectivity to over 2,500 banks, we help our customers make faster, more informed decisions.

We are headquartered in the UK with offices in London and Leeds, and additional locations in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United States.

At GoCardless, we're all about supporting you! We’re committed to making our hiring process inclusive and accessible. If you need extra support or adjustments, reach out to your Talent Partner — we’re here to help!

And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply!

We are looking for a Global Performance Marketing Manager to own paid media strategy and execution across our global demand generation campaigns (UK&I, Europe and North America).

Reporting to the Director of Global Demand Generation and working in close partnership with the Senior Global Campaign Manager, you will be responsible for how we reach our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) – translating campaign narratives and messaging into high‑performing paid media programmes that drive pipeline and closed‑won bookings.

You will define how we show up in‑market: architecting campaigns in‑platform, shaping audience segmentation, setting the testing framework, and leading the relationship with our paid media agency.

This is a specialist role operating within a sales‑led GTM motion and an ABM framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and scale paid acquisition across channels – including LinkedIn, Meta, and Demandbase – bringing deep platform expertise and a proven track record of scaling paid social to efficiently reach target accounts.
• Lead media planning and budget allocation, owning paid social budget decisions globally and using data to inform campaign architectures that reach target accounts efficiently and predictably.
• Architect campaigns in‑platform, translating briefs and messaging frameworks into effective campaign structures.
• Lead audience segmentation, mapping the SAM into platform audiences and ensuring targeting precision across business segments and personas.
• Define creative requirements and ad formats for each channel, working with the wider DG team (Campaigns, Content, Design, Regional managers) to ensure assets are fit for purpose.
• Own the testing framework, running structured experiments across creative, audiences, and channels, and feeding performance insights back to inform future campaign strategy and messaging.
• Manage our paid media agency partnership, overseeing in‑platform execution, defining the guardrails they operate within, and driving continuous performance improvement.
• Deliver channel performance reporting, providing insights needed to assess campaign effectiveness.
• Build robust attribution and measurement, partnering with Marketing Operations to establish accurate cross‑channel attribution – connecting in‑platform performance data to commercial metrics that matter to the business.
• Collaborate with Regional Demand Generation Managers on local market strategy, audience priorities and budget allocation to ensure global campaigns land effectively.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve campaign processes, platform performance, and testing rigour.

Skills & Qualifications

• You have a minimum of 3–4 years of solid paid media or performance marketing experience, ideally within B2B FinTech, payments, or SaaS.
• You have proven experience executing within a sales‑led go‑to‑market engine rather than self‑serve, with familiarity of ABM and enterprise buying cycles.
• You have hands‑on expertise with paid media platforms and are comfortable owning campaign architecture end‑to‑end in‑platform.
• You are analytically strong, with the ability to interpret performance data, run structured tests, and turn insights into clear recommendations for both media optimisation and creative direction.
• You have experience managing agency relationships, setting clear expectations, and holding partners accountable to performance.
• You are proficient in campaign‑related technologies including CRM, MAP, and ABM platforms.

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid‑point of the pay range (£47,200 – £59,000) until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.

Benefits

• Wellbeing – stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
• Work away scheme – gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
• Adaptive Working – allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
• Equity – all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution
• Parental leave – to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
• Learning Budget – lead your own development with an annual learning budget
• Time off – generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business‑wide wellness days

Diversity & Inclusion

As of April 2025, we had 806 employees globally, with 524 based in the UK, 163 based in Latvia and 119 across our other offices.

To ensure that we’re representative of the world around us – and to be able to review relevant benchmarks – we ask employees to voluntarily disclose diversity data. This year, the proportion of employees providing data increased to 88% (up from 79% in 2024). With regards to diversity within GoCardless, we can see employees identifying as:

Asian, Black, Mixed or Other – 25%

LGBTQIA+ – 9%

Disabled – 1%

Average age – 33

Female – 45%