Senior Performance Marketing Manager

NewsBreak; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

NewsBreak is seeking an experienced Growth Lead in Mountain View to own experimental design, incrementality, and bid strategy for our paid acquisition program.

You will build scalable testing frameworks, mentor a team, and partner with analytics to drive efficient growth at high spend.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in app UA with independent $30M+ annual spend.
• Design experiments with power calculations and stopping rules.
• Experience managing 4+ people including non-buying functions.
• Proven ability to stop spend that isn’t incremental.

Responsibilities

• Reallocate budgets across channels based on incrementality.
• Standardize testing angles with pre-registered samples and power calculations.
• Oversee bidding system governance, thresholds, and rollbacks.
• Roll out geo-tiered bidding and coordinate with Growth DS.
• Audit optimization events and translate readouts into budget shifts.
• Stand up two-layer testing framework and allocate exploration budget.

Skills

7+ years in app UA

Managed $30M+ annual spend

Tools

Meta Ads Platform

Experiment design

Job description

Mountain View, California, United States

About NewsBreak

Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.

Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

Why this role exists

The team has a Lead, and direction is well set — the agentic system is their initiative. But that same person also heads the part-time jobs vertical. Two significant roles, one person's bandwidth means the time available for paid growth is limited. Day-to-day operations are covered by a colleague who is new to growth — at this budget scale, incrementality judgment, bidding strategy, and experiment design sit beyond their current experience.What's missing isn't direction; it's an experienced operator running the function full-time.That colleague will continue on execution under you.

That explains the present state: no incrementality testing has ever been run, a hyper-local product bids uniformly nationwide, angle tests run without pre-registered sample sizes or stopping rules, and close to half the team still performs work the platforms have automated. Conservatively, eight figures of annual efficiency sits unclaimed here.

Platform automation has absorbed most manual optimization headroom — the ceiling isn't operational precision.Experiment design and analytical judgment are the core skills; knowing the Meta interface is table stakes.

What you'll own

• Cross-channel budget reallocation grounded in incrementality
• Standardizing how angles get tested— the most concrete gap today: pre-registered sample sizes and power calculations, success criteria and stopping rules set before launch, a consistent control, a structured test log, and strictseparationof message tests from creative tests (never vary both). Testing happens today, but conclusions are of uncertain reliability: the true hit rate is unknown, and winners may have been killed while noise was kept
• Guardrails and supervision for the agentic bidding system: approval thresholds, audit logs, rollback, enforced holdouts, and when to trust it versus intervene. The Lead sets system direction; this role owns rollout and risk control
• Rollout of geo-tiered bidding
• Extracting platform support — at this spend level you should have rep support, lift studies, and alpha access
• Rebalancing the team: nearly half of it still does work the platforms have automated

What we're looking for

• 7+ years in app UA, having independently run $30M+ per year— small-budget experience doesn't transfer; this bar is firm
• You can answer:“Given a system that reallocates budget automatically, how do you stop it from moving spend toward zero-incrementality inventory?”
• You've cut spend that looked good in the dashboard but wasn't incremental
• You design your own experiments, including power calculations and stopping rules
• You've managed 4+ people, including at least one non-buying function (analytics, creative, or engineering)
• Industry open

First 90 days

• Audit optimization events: how much budget sits on installs versus downstream value
• With the Growth DS, translate the first incrementality readout into actual budget shifts
• Stand up the two-layer testing framework and ring-fence an exploration budget

The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options.

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