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Manager, Performance Marketing

Relay - Toronto, ON, Canada - In-office - posted 2026-10-05

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Salary: CAD 139,500 - 170,500 / annual

Relay is a digital banking platform designed for self-made business owners, providing tools and visibility to manage cash flow and run stronger businesses. The company is scaling its performance marketing function and seeking a Manager to lead the next phase of growth. You will lead and develop a team of performance marketers while staying hands-on with campaign execution. The role manages a $2–3M monthly paid media budget across search, social, publisher, CTV, and direct mail channels, working with agency partners and in-house analytics. Your mission is to scale and optimize existing channels, test and unlock new ones, and build a world-class performance marketing team. Key responsibilities include: - Leading and developing a team of performance marketers through 1:1s, coaching, and clear ownership structures - Owning one or two channels or tests personally, serving as escalation point for existing channels - Conducting a comprehensive audit of all existing channels and vendor partners in your first 90 days, with ROI recommendations - Taking over and scaling the publisher channel with a portfolio of media partners - Running the team's operating rhythm: weekly performance meetings, heartbeat metrics, and monthly budget planning - Identifying and testing new channel opportunities to drive Approvals - Serving as the performance voice in integrated campaigns, building feedback loops with Analytics and Creative You are a player-coach who builds systems that unblock your team rather than being the hero who saves the week. You speak fluently in performance metrics (LTV:CAC, attribution models, incrementality testing) and have managed meaningful paid media budgets and teams. Requirements: - Owned paid media budgets of at least $200K per month, across a mix of brand and direct response spend - Personally run at least two or three paid channels (not one channel for your entire career) - Grown other marketers formally as a manager or through mentoring; can name people who improved because of you - Deep fluency in LTV:CAC, attribution models (first-touch to multi-touch), and incrementality or geo testing - Preference for building systems over heroic individual contributions Bonus qualifications: - Experience with brand-forward media (CTV, audio, out-of-home, direct mail) - Ability to pull your own numbers in SQL or Metabase - Experience managing publisher partners or agency relationships - Background working across self-serve and sales-assisted funnels

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