Performance Marketing Manager (Remote, Sandton)

Blacksmith Agency; Sandton; Remote; ZAR 1,481,000 - 1,975,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is a fully remote AI-first digital agency that serves B2B and growing-brand clients with paid media strategy. You will own campaigns across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Ads, shaping budgets and testing tactics for impact.

You will rely on GA4, Tag Manager, and platform pixels to measure performance and to tell the client the story behind the numbers in quarterly reviews. This role emphasizes long-term relationships, retention and upsell opportunities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads and Meta.
• Agency experience across several clients at once.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own paid media for B2B and growing-brand clients across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads.
• Budget allocation, bidding, targeting and creative testing, and when to kill a campaign.
• Conversion tracking and attribution you can trust: GA4, tag manager and platform pixels.
• The 90 day and quarterly roadmap for each client, and the story behind the numbers on the call.
• Account growth: retention, upsell and the long-term relationship.

Skills

Campaign management

ROAS optimization

Client communication

Agency multitasking

Tools

Google Ads

Meta Ads

LinkedIn Ads

Microsoft Ads

GA4

Tag Manager

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

• Remote (USA, Canada, Latin America or South Africa)

• Marketing
• Full time
• Remote (USA, Canada, Latin America or South Africa)

Paid media only. SEO is a separate seat with its own strategist, so you are never split across both.

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency. As Performance Marketing Manager you own paid media for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients: the targeting, the budget calls, the roadmap and the narrative when the client asks why. You are the strategic voice at the table, and you make the calls.

What You Will Own

• Paid media across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads for your accounts.
• Budget allocation, bidding, targeting and creative testing, and when to kill a campaign.
• Conversion tracking and attribution you can trust: GA4, tag manager and platform pixels.
• The 90 day and quarterly roadmap for each client, and the story behind the numbers on the call.
• Account growth: retention, upsell and the long-term relationship.

What You Bring

• 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads and Meta: you have built, run and optimized the campaigns yourself.
• A record of moving ROAS, CPA or pipeline numbers you can walk us through.
• Agency experience across several clients at once.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.