Senior Manager Performance Marketing

The Senior Manager, Performance Marketing is a hands-on growth marketer responsible for operating and continuously improving C2 Education’s customer acquisition engine.

This role combines deep performance marketing expertise with analytics, experimentation, conversion optimization, and emerging AI-enabled marketing capabilities. The Senior Manager will personally manage C2’s paid media programs while building the measurement and intelligence systems that help Marketing understand where growth is coming from, where opportunities exist, and where C2 should invest next.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable working inside advertising and analytics platforms, investigating performance questions, designing experiments, and using AI and automation to make marketing faster and more effective. This role partners closely with the Vice President, Marketing on strategy and investment decisions and with Brand, Content, Local Marketing, and Web Development to translate insights into action.

Performance Marketing

• Manage day-to-day execution and optimization of C2’s paid acquisition programs across paid search, paid social, display, video, and other scalable performance channels.

• Build and maintain campaign structures, audiences, keywords, bidding strategies, budgets, targeting, exclusions, conversion actions, and creative rotations.

• Monitor pacing and performance closely, proactively identifying opportunities, risks, and recommended actions.

• Recommend budget reallocations based on performance, marginal efficiency, lead quality, enrollment contribution, and market opportunity.

• Develop a structured testing pipeline to optimize performance across landing experiences and in-channel creative executions.

• Maintain strong controls around tracking accuracy, brand safety, privacy, platform compliance, and account documentation.

Growth Analytics & Marketing Intelligence

• Build and maintain clear, reliable reporting across acquisition channels and key stages of the marketing funnel.

• Connect marketing activity to downstream business outcomes, including qualified inquiries, appointments, diagnostic activity, enrollments, and acquisition efficiency and develop recommendations to balance efficiency with portfolio needs.

• Analyze performance by channel, campaign, audience, geography, center, creative, and other meaningful dimensions.

• Identify performance anomalies, emerging trends, growth opportunities, and areas of funnel leakage.

• Develop forecasts, scenarios, benchmarks, and actionable recommendations for the Vice President, Marketing and marketing leadership.

• Partner with internal stakeholders to improve attribution, lead-quality feedback, measurement consistency, and data integrity.

Cross-Functional Execution

• Partner closely with the Vice President, Marketing on acquisition strategy, investment priorities, forecasting, and major optimization decisions.

• Partner with Lifecycle Marketing and Operations to ensure that we have clean measures throughout the funnel, and those events are being passed to our media and email systems with fidelity.

• Partner with Web and Content Marketing to turn performance and search insights into stronger creative and content.