Senior Agentic Performance Marketing Manager

Search Atlas; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 998,000 - 1,134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15 days PTO

Remote work & global talent access

Job summary

Search Atlas, a SaaS-focused marketing platform, seeks a hands-on media buyer to own paid acquisition on Meta and Google. You will run campaigns with AI agents, optimize in real time, and push performance weekly.

Balance media buying with analytics, build automation, and run tests that reduce CPA. Collaborate with creatives to translate data into high-converting ads and landing pages.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on media buying on Meta and Google with sizable monthly spend.
• Deep Meta expertise: ad structure, scaling, and optimization.
• Agency side experience in advertising campaigns.
• SaaS or B2B experience with trial/free-demo funnels.
• Experience building automation with LLMs and APIs for ad workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own paid acquisition on Meta and Google with AI agents.
• Structure bids, budgets, and pacing within monthly caps.
• Build agent workflows to monitor performance daily and shift budgets to winners.
• Create briefs for creative strategists from performance data.
• Lead landing page CRO and ensure ads match landers.
• Ensure trusted tracking from click to activation and monitor CAC/LTV.
• Launch ads for new products across self-serve and sales-led funnels.

Skills

Media buying

Meta Ads

Google Ads

Agency experience

Automation with LLMs

GA4

Data analysis

Spreadsheets

Ad testing

SaaS/B2B familiarity

Tools

n8n

Zapier

Claude

ChatGPT

Job description

Open to any location - Working EST timezone

We're the all in one agentic marketing platform. AI native from day one. We're not joining a category, we're defining it.

We're looking for someone who will own paid acquisition on Meta and Google, and run it with AI agents doing real work. If you want real ownership, move fast, and raise the bar every week, keep reading. If "set it and forget it" is your bidding strategy, this isn't the role.

What you'll own

• Paid acquisition on Meta and Google against a trial CPA target. Structure, bidding, budgets and pacing, all within monthly caps.
• Agent workflows that check performance daily, move budget from losing campaigns to winners, and cross check reporting across models. Plus the visual map of how it all runs.
• What runs and where budget goes. You turn performance data into briefs for our creative strategists, who build the ads.
• Paid landing pages and funnel CRO with design and dev. Every lander matches its ad, and every test moves CPA.
• Tracking we can trust from first click to activation, and unit economics (CAC, payback, LTV) that new products launch on.
• Launching ads for new products with zero history, across self serve and sales led funnels.

About half your week is media buying and analytics. The rest is split between building agents and running landing page tests.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of hands on media buying on Meta and Google, managing $100K+ a month
• Deep Meta expertise. You know what ads work, how to structure them, and how to scale a winning concept.
• Agency side experience
• SaaS or B2B experience with free trial or book a demo funnels
• You've built your own automation with LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, APIs, scripts, n8n, Zapier or similar) that you use on ads every week, like performance checks, budget moves or reporting. You can explain how it works.
• Strong with GA4, PostHog, ad platform reporting and spreadsheets
• A track record of landing page and creative tests that lowered CPA

Nice to have

• SQL
• LinkedIn ads
• Launching sales led or book a demo funnels
• HubSpot and Stripe

You’ll thrive here if...

• You know what's working, what's broken and what to do about it before anyone asks.
• You’ve lived through Meta volatility and know when to touch things and when to leave them alone.
• You can explain a CPA spike to a founder in one chart.
• You don't wait to be told what to do. You see the gap and you move.
• Deadlines don’t rattle you. Ambiguity doesn’t either.
• You're an AI power user, not someone who's "open to learning it someday."
• You have opinions and you're not afraid to bring them.
• You can laugh at a chaotic week on Friday and mean it.

What working here actually looks like

High expectations. Real ownership. Things change fast and we don't apologize for it. You'll work with smart people who push you, a product that keeps getting better, and a team that's genuinely building something new.

We'll probably give you more to own than you expected. That's on purpose.

We use AI every day, across every function. That's just how we work.

About Search Atlas

We're the all in one agentic marketing platform, AI native from day one. Our tools help marketing teams move faster, make smarter decisions, and do more with less. We're defining a new category and we're looking for people who want to be part of it.

Location: Remote, International.
Hours: EST
Compensation: $44 - $50 USD per hour
Benefits: 15 days PTO. Christmas Day and New Year's Day paid off.