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Senior Manager, Performance Marketing

Purpose Med

Purpose Med

Marketing & Communications
Canada · Remote
Posted on Friday, September 29, 2023

About us:

PurposeMed was founded in 2019 with the mission of improving access to complex care for underserved communities. We’ve grown to over 200 team members, serving hundreds of patients each month, and are continuing to grow rapidly.

PurposeMed consists of three complex care business units; Freddie, Frida, Foria, and partners with Affirming Care Pharmacy. Freddie is focused on improving sexual health through education, prevention and treatment with a focus on the LGBTQ2S+ community—we’re now the largest HIV prevention service in Canada! Our second vertical, Frida, is focused on improving mental health and happiness through education, diagnosis and treatment. Frida is changing the lives of patients with easier access to adult ADHD diagnosis, and fast and affordable treatment. Foria was recently launched in 2023 and is a virtual clinic providing trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse Canadians with gender-affirming healthcare. Affirming Care Pharmacy is a specialty pharmacy with locations in Calgary, Alberta and Mississauga, Ontario. This partnership provides our patients with an end-to-end healthcare experience, from treatment, to prescription delivery, to continuous affirming care.

We are a C100 Fellow, a member of the Lazaridis Institute, and a certified Great Place to Work® (92% of our employees agree)! Our culture is highly mission-driven; our team is passionate about bringing healthcare to those who need it most. Best of all—we have fun doing it.


Location - Remote (Canada)

Permanent, full-time opportunity


Who we hope to find:

PurposeMed is looking for a Senior Manager, Performance Marketing who can manage the strategy and growth of our acquisition channels as well as leading the Performance Marketing team. Reporting into the Director of Growth, your goal will be to scale and optimize the channel mix to reach targets that ultimately serve more patients across Freddie and Frida. You will also lead the exciting opportunity of launching new performance marketing channels for Freddie’s venture into the United States. This will begin as a bridge role while the existing Senior Manager, Performance Marketing is on parental leave, with the intention to transition to managing the new Freddie USA venture exclusively thereafter.

Though we have an office based in Calgary, this is a remote position that is open to candidates across Canada.

In this role, you’ll make an impact by:

  • 50% leading the Performance Marketing team (currently two Performance Marketing Managers who are channel experts) to drive scale and efficiency through their owned ad channels
    • Owning the overall channel mix and budget, including monthly demand forecasting of projected results and weekly reporting of acquisition progress toward financial targets to stakeholders
    • Collaborating with team leaders across brand, data, product, lifecycle and more to coordinate cross-functional initiatives that deliver results
    • Setting quarterly team OKRs and prioritizing team capacity to achieve them, including identifying the most impactful opportunities and working with leadership and cross-functional partners to secure resources and remove roadblocks
    • Supporting the Performance Marketing Managers’ growth through team meetings and weekly 1:1s to achieve their OKRs and their development goals, including coaching and mentoring
  • 50% channel management, launching and owning ad channels for the new Freddie USA venture, such as Google, Meta, TikTok, dating app ads, and other experimental ad channels, involving day-to-day management of the ad accounts and overseeing content creation for them
    • Leading the strategy, execution and analysis of these channels, reporting results weekly in team meetings and written reports as well as creative reporting presentations to the brand team
    • Monitoring campaigns daily to optimize performance, manage budget pacing, and resolve any issues, all to constantly improve efficiency and meet targets
    • Innovating by building a calendar of experiments and executing them across targeting, objectives, creative, copy, targeting, landing pages and other new strategies to be constantly optimizing and improving performance
    • Managing the relationships with external Account Managers for each ad platform, including evaluating recommendations, considering beta/test opportunities, and negotiating ad buys for dating apps
    • Developing creative briefs for the brand team based on data-driven insights and coordinating deliverables with them, with a heavy focus on influencer content
    • Staying up to date on platform changes and industry trends to remain ahead of the curve and proactively solving potential issues
    • Researching, developing and executing launch plans, and evaluating success for potential new digital paid acquisition channels

We need someone who has:

  • 4+ years experience working in Performance Marketing and can manage multiple ad accounts with confidence
  • 1+ years experience working as a people manager with at least 2 direct reports
  • Experience working with Google Ads Manager, Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, and learning new ad platforms
  • Experience collaborating successfully with multi-functional teams like product, engineering, lifecycle, brand, data, etc.
  • Proven ability to drive growth and hit aggressive revenue and efficiency targets
  • Strong data analytical skills and experience with Google Analytics (GA4)
  • Experimentation mindset and familiarity with A/B testing
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to tell a story with results and tailor your message to stakeholders with different levels of technical knowledge
  • Comfort in a fast-paced startup environment, with the ability to pivot and adapt quickly when necessary
  • Desire to stay ahead of trends and changes in the performance marketing industry
  • A "driver" personality - biased toward action, pushes for clarity and delivering results, never hesitant to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on, perseveres in times of headwinds and failures
  • A passion for healthcare and supporting underserved communities including the LGBTQ2S+ community
  • Experience working at a fast-paced, high-performing startup

It would also be great if you had:

  • Experience running successful direct-to-consumer performance marketing campaigns in the US
  • Experience working with influencers/content creators for conversion-focused campaigns
  • Knowledge of SQL

Do you think you could be our next Senior Manager, Performance Marketing? We look forward to seeing your application!

Why you should join us:

  • Be part of a team of great people who don’t take themselves too seriously. While we’re serious about the problems we solve, we believe in having fun along the way.
  • Make an impact, every single day. We’re providing compassionate, affirming care to many people who have never received care for their condition.
  • Receive great benefits from your first day of work. We offer plenty of paid time off, a parental leave top-up program, group benefits, learning stipends and other perks.
  • Work flexibly, from anywhere across Canada.* We believe that work should fit around your life. We also have an office in Calgary available for anyone in the area!
  • Be confident in bringing your whole self to work. Inclusivity is core to how we take care of our patients, our teammates and ourselves. We create spaces that are safe and affirming.

If you are looking for a place that sparks your creativity, helps others, and will push you to be your best, then you’ll love PurposeMed.

*Most of our roles are performed virtually from home (in a distributed team environment) across Canada. Team members who are in “onsite” roles at Affirming Care need to be physically present at our pharmacies.

PurposeMed is committed to being an equal opportunity employer, so we highly encourage those from excluded and marginalized communities to apply. This includes groups such as (but not limited to): Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities, trans and non-binary, LGBTQIA2S+, disabled, and HIV-positive people. You don’t have to check every single box above. If the job description gets you excited and you think you could contribute your expertise to our team—we hope you’ll apply!