Growth-Focused Paid Media Manager

Cursor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is hiring a paid acquisition marketer to scale growth across Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, YouTube, and more. You’ll own channel strategy, execution, and measurement, turning ad spend into qualified signups, pipeline, and revenue.

This role is based in our San Francisco or New York City office and requires in-office presence. You’ll collaborate with creative, content, product marketing, sales, lifecycle, data, and engineering to optimize funnel performance from first impression to

Qualifications

• Strong paid media expertise with ability to manage meaningful budgets.
• Experience with analytics and attribution tools.
• Proven ability to optimize campaigns and measure ROAS.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale paid acquisition across channels including Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, YouTube, and emerging developer-focused platforms.
• Build and optimize full-funnel campaigns that drive qualified signups, pipeline, and revenue, not just clicks.
• Develop channel strategy across search, paid social, retargeting, and experimentation budgets.
• Test ad copy and creative angles tailored to technical audiences.
• Partner closely with creative, content, and product marketing to ship high-performing ad concepts and landing page iterations.
• Manage campaign structure, keyword strategy, audience segmentation, and bidding to improve CAC and payback.
• Own measurement and attribution, with support from ops and engineering: tracking setup, conversion quality, offline conversion imports, and incrementality testing.
• Analyze performance trends and communicate results clearly through dashboards, reporting, and weekly insights.
• Run structured experiments to identify new growth levers (new audiences, formats, offers, onboarding flows).
• Collaborate with sales, lifecycle, and data teams to improve lead quality and conversion rates downstream.
• Stay current on platform changes, AI-driven campaign formats, and new opportunities in the paid media ecosystem.

Skills

Paid media

Google Ads

LinkedIn

Analytics

A/B testing

Tools

Analytics tools

Job description

Cursor is hiring a paid acquisition marketer to scale growth across Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, YouTube, and more. You’ll own channel strategy, execution, and measurement, turning ad spend into qualified signups, pipeline, and revenue.

This role is based in our San Francisco or New York City office and requires in-office presence. You’ll collaborate with creative, content, product marketing, sales, lifecycle, data, and engineering to optimize funnel performance from first impression to