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Performance Marketing Associate

Posted 2 months ago

OfficeNew York

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 will report to the Head of Performance Marketing and is ideal for someone with 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 incrementally 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, incrementally 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 incrementally 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

Job details
Workplace
Office
Location
New York

The world's largest prediction market platform

Key team members

Alex Bäcker

Alex Bäcker

David Pincus, CPA

David Pincus, CPA

Jimmy Lim

Jimmy Lim

Andre R. Dias

Andre R. Dias

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