Performance Marketing Lead - Consumer Growth

The opportunity

• Own Kraken Consumer's global paid acquisition strategy across Paid Search , Paid Social , App Acquisition , Display , Video , Affiliates , KOLs and other measurable growth channels.

• Manage acquisition budgets and capital allocation, optimising investment based on CAC , cohort quality, payback, incrementality and long-term customer value.

• Develop acquisition strategies for Kraken's highest-value customer segments, translating customer insights into targeting, creative, messaging and channel strategy.

• Build a world-class experimentation culture across creative, audience targeting, landing pages, onboarding and full-funnel conversion optimisation.

• Partner closely with Product, Lifecycle, CRM, Data, Finance and Marketing to optimise the customer journey from first touch through activation, engagement and retention.

• Establish robust measurement frameworks, combining attribution, incrementality testing, cohort analysis and experimentation to inform investment decisions.

• Lead and develop the Performance Marketing and Affiliate/KOL teams, building scalable operating rhythms, agency partnerships and best-in-class execution.

• Drive a culture of continuous optimisation through regular business reviews, using performance data, customer insights and experimentation to identify opportunities to scale, improve or stop investments.

• Help shape the future of Kraken Consumer growth by identifying new acquisition channels, technologies and opportunities to accelerate global customer growth.

What you bring

• 8+ years of experience leading multi-channel performance marketing in a high-growth consumer technology, fintech or crypto business.

• Proven success managing large-scale acquisition programmes across web and mobile, including Google , Meta , Apple Search Ads and other paid media channels.

• Deep understanding of acquisition economics, including CAC , LTV , cohort analysis, incrementality, attribution and payback modelling.

• Experience managing affiliate, creator, influencer or KOL partnerships alongside traditional paid acquisition channels.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to make commercial decisions using experimentation, attribution models and customer data.

• Experience improving conversion across the full customer journey, including creative, landing pages, onboarding and lifecycle marketing.

• Proven people leader with experience building, coaching and developing high-performing marketing teams while managing external agencies and partners.

• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering closely with Product, Data, Finance, Creative, Legal and Compliance teams.

• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, highly regulated industries where balancing growth, customer trust and compliance is essential.

Nice to haves

• Hands-on experience with MMM , geo testing, or other ways to measure harder-to-attribute investment.

• Working fluency with SQL , cohort modeling, forecasting, or equivalent analytical tools.

• Experience building an in-house growth creative or landing-page testing capability.

• Crypto or fintech experience.