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Managing Director, Performance Department: Senior Leadership Employment Type: Full Time Location: Canada Reporting To: Co-founders Description Clever Digital Marketing is a performance marketing agency working with the largest home improvement companies in North America. Due to our unique positioning in the home improvement market with large-scale companies, we have grown key accounts from our minimum of $20,000 per month in spend to well over $1,000,000 per month, incorporating a large percentage share of our clients'' monthly marketing spend. We manage close to $5,000,000 a month in marketing spend across the board and need more talent to make each dollar spent more efficiently. To support our next stage of growth, we are hiring a Managing Director, Performance to ensure seamless execution, client success, and scalable performance across the organization. This executive will play a critical role in shaping the future of Clever Digital Marketing, driving operational excellence, scaling leadership across departments, and ensuring our clients achieve best-inclass performance outcomes. Reporting directly to the CoFounders, you''ll own the full business: revenue, operations, team, and strategy. You''ll be the connective tissue between a highperformance delivery team and an ambitious growth agenda someone who can think at the 30,000foot level while still rolling up their sleeves when it matters. You will oversee senior leaders across Paid Search, Paid Social, Conversion Rate Optimization, and Client Services, managing a large multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering exceptional performance and client growth. Key Responsibilities Serve as the executive leader responsible for the endtoend performance marketing function, including Paid Media and Client Services. Partner with the COO and executive team to define and execute the longterm strategic vision for Clever Digital Marketing. Contribute to companywide planning, growth initiatives, and operational leadership as part of the executive leadership team. Own the companywide performance marketing strategy, ensuring bestinclass execution across Paid Search, Paid Social, and emerging channels. Identify and champion new growth levers, technologies, platforms, and optimization frameworks that improve lead quality and drive client revenue. Ensure our performance marketing programs remain datadriven, scalable, and aligned with evolving platform and industry changes. Maintain deep familiarity with major advertising platforms including Google Ads, Meta Ads, and Microsoft Advertising. Oversee the Client Services function, ensuring exceptional client delivery, retention, and account growth. Establish systems that tightly integrate Client Services and Paid Media, aligning teams around shared performance and business outcomes. Support senior client relationships with strategic oversight and executive presence. Drive initiatives that increase client retention, satisfaction, and expansion opportunities. Architect and scale the organizational structure across Paid Media and Client Services, ensuring clarity in leadership layers and responsibilities. Lead and mentor a large, multidisciplinary team of directors, managers, and specialists. Build strong leadership pipelines through coaching, mentorship, and succession planning. Create ascension systems that enable employees to grow into leadership roles. Lead quarterly and annual planning cycles for media strategy, departmental priorities, and performance forecasting. Develop and refine scalable SOPs, quality assurance systems, marketing playbooks, and operational frameworks. Work closely with Operations and Analytics teams to implement systems that improve performance visibility and decisionmaking. Ensure teams operate with clear processes, strong accountability, and consistent performance standards. Oversee performance reporting and forecasting across all paid channels and client portfolios. Ensure teams leverage data and analytics to continuously improve campaign performance and client outcomes. Establish clear KPIs and performance benchmarks across departments. Partner closely with Operations, Analytics, and Executive Leadership to scale internal systems and infrastructure. Support new business initiatives and agency growth opportunities through strategic leadership and expertise. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 10-15+ years of experience in performance marketing, with deep expertise in Paid Search and Paid Social. 8+ years of senior leadership experience, including managing senior leaders such as Directors, Group Directors and VPs. Proven experience overseeing largescale paid media programs with $10M+ monthly spend. Experience managing large teams of 50+ employees across multiple functions. Agency experience leading both media strategy and client services delivery. Strong operator with a track record of building scalable processes, systems, and organizational structures. Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate senior leaders and department heads. Exceptional strategic thinking combined with strong operational execution. Experience integrating paid media, CRO, and creative to drive measurable growth. You combine strategic leadership with operational discipline. You are passionate about building highperformance teams and strong leadership cultures. You thrive in fastgrowing organizations where systems and scale must evolve quickly. You are both analytical and decisive, using data to inform strategy while moving quickly to drive results. Experience leading and growing performance media teams at high growth, independent agencies. Strong understanding of marketing measurement and attribution frameworks. Experience with automation, AI, and advanced media optimization tools. Familiarity with multimarket or global media programs. Launching additional performancebased service offerings i.e. programmatic. Benefits Benefits of Working at CDM Competitive base salary + performancebased bonuses. Flexible remote work environment with option for inperson collaboration (Vaughan, ON). Group benefits medical, dental, vision, RRSP/401k plan with matching. Companyprovided MacBook computer. Home office budget and Clever merch delivery to get you started. Work abroad policy: Need a new working environment? Our work abroad policy supports this! The chance to shape and grow a highperforming Enterprise team. A culture of performance and respect where the best work happens with extreme ownership and accountability meets collaboration. #J-18808-Ljbffr