Performance Marketer

About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.

We're growing fast – both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.

About the Role

We're looking for a Performance Marketing Associate to own and scale our paid acquisition engine. This role is ideal for someone who has deep experience managing large-scale budgets, driving efficient growth, and building a high-velocity experimentation culture across channels.

What You'll Do

• Help with performance marketing across paid channels, managing a minimum of $100M+ in annual ad spend with clear accountability for CAC, LTV, payback period, and revenue growth.
• Scale and optimize campaigns across platforms including Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, affiliates, and emerging channels, with a strong bias toward testing, iteration, and capital-efficient growth.
• Partner closely with creative, brand, product, and analytics teams to drive creative strategy and feedback loops, turning performance insights into stronger ad concepts, messaging, hooks, landing pages, and conversion paths.
• Build a rigorous experimentation engine across audiences, bidding, offer strategy, funnel structure, creative formats, and attribution, using data to identify where incremental spend can drive outsized returns.
• Develop and maintain a best-in-class performance reporting system, including forecasting, budget allocation, channel mix modeling, and incremental thinking, so leadership can make fast, informed growth decisions.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in performance marketing, paid acquisition, or growth marketing, preferably in a consumer tech, fintech, or high-growth startup environment.
• Proven experience managing large-scale paid media budgets ($50M–$100M+ preferred).
• Deep expertise across major paid acquisition platforms including Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Google, and YouTube.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience in attribution, incrementality testing, and performance modeling.
• Track record of scaling growth while maintaining or improving efficiency metrics such as CAC, LTV, and payback period.
• Experience working cross-functionally with creative, product, and data teams.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Nice-to-Haves

• Cross-environment buying experience (web + mobile app).
• Experience in trading, fintech, or financial products.
• Familiarity with advanced attribution models and incrementality testing frameworks.
• Strong intuition for creative strategy and direct response marketing.

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage.
• 401k match.
• Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories.

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