Performance Marketer (Paid Ads + Creative)
sodaChicago (IL)
Performance Marketer (Paid Ads + Creative)
Posted yesterday
sodaChicago (IL)
SENIORITY
Manager
About the role
Soda Paid Acquisition LeadData quality is the bottleneck of the AI era. Every Fortune 500 is trying to solve it. We're the team they call. Soda is the data quality layer for Disney, Ralph Lauren, CBRE, HelloFresh, 2K Games, and Nubank. Our open-source engine, Soda Core, is used by companies like Tesla, Slack, Adyen, Walmart, and JPMC. The category is growing fast because AI doesn't work on bad data. We're hiring one person to own paid acquisition end to end. Soda's mission is to monitor the world's decisions. We're building the first Data & AI performance monitoring platform that spans data collection to automated decision-making. The role is to not manage an agency. Not to approve creative someone else made. You write the ad, you make the asset, you build the landing page, you launch it, you own the budget, and you read the numbers on Monday and kill what didn't work. You'll join the Growth team reporting to a co-founder. Performance marketer, paid media manager, paid acquisition lead, demand gen manager, growth marketer, creative strategist, media buyer, or the person at a startup who just ended up running the ads. We don't care what's on your CV. You need to have run B2B paid yourself and you need to have made the creative, and most people have only done one. People who have personally run enterprise B2B ads at a company nobody had heard of yet. You know what a $40 click feels like, you know why the creative that won on LinkedIn dies on Reddit, and you have opinions about it that you earned by losing money that mattered. If your last job was allocating budget across channels and reviewing what an agency shipped, this isn't it. If you've been making the ads yourself because it was faster than briefing someone, this is it.
What you'll do:
Own paid acquisition end to end: LinkedIn, Meta, Google, Reddit, ChatGpt, X, and whatever you can prove works.
Make the creative. Copy, static, video, landing pages. You are the studio, and AI is how you get to twenty variants instead of two.
Run a real testing cadence: hypothesis, ship, read, kill. Volume of tests is the job; most of them will lose and that's the point.
Own the budget and the number. Pipeline and qualified meetings, not impressions.
Work with the founders, customer engineers, and customers on what Soda actually says to the market. Your opinion matters here.
Before you apply
Applying takes about a minute. These four things decide how fast it moves after that.
Your profile is current
It's what we read first. Occupations, seniority and locations matter more than a long history.
Two examples you can talk through
Not a portfolio — just two pieces of work where you can explain the decisions and what you'd change.
A number in mind
What you're on now and what would make you move. We negotiate better when we know both.
Your notice period
Employers plan around it, and it's the question that stalls offers most often.
Once you apply, someone reads it and calls you before anything reaches the employer — usually within two working days.