Full-Time

Performance Marketing Specialist

Posted on 10/31/2025

Toptal

Toptal

5,001-10,000 employees

Marketplace connecting businesses to top freelancers

No salary listed

No H1B Sponsorship

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Growth & Marketing (1)
Required Skills
A/B Testing
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • 2-4 years of experience in paid media, specifically paid social and online video advertising (OLV), as well as search engine marketing familiarity.
  • Expertise with annual Paid Media budgets in excess of $1,000,000 per year.
  • Experience in the end-to-end ideation, implementation, analysis, and promotion of Paid Media growth strategies.
  • Ability and willingness to review, with meticulous attention to detail, all of the final work product that your team creates.
  • Demonstrated experience growing revenue at scale via performance marketing, preferably within a business-to-business technology or services company.
  • Experience with A/B testing strategies.
  • Experience with summarizing results into slide decks.
  • Experience presenting to large teams and executives.
  • Impeccable written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • Experience working with a number of stakeholders across time zones and geographies.
  • Innate curiosity and willingness to learn, and an obsession with growth performance.
  • Remote position requiring a motivated self-starter.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
  • You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal.
Responsibilities
  • Maximize paid media driven revenue by providing Toptal with a steady stream of high-potential prospective clients.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of a comprehensive marketing strategy aligned with the company’s overall business objectives.
  • Identify new opportunities for brand growth and revenue generation across paid social media, display and other advertising channels, while working with a team to further enhance SEM efforts.
  • Help Executives, Marketing Strategists, and the Senior Leadership team craft and hit KPIs that relate to their initiatives and OKRs.
  • Assist in building forecasts and projections related to expected ROI on marketing campaigns, traffic, user acquisition, and other areas requiring robust financial analysis.
  • Work with the Business Analytics and Marketing Strategy teams, extrapolating insights into actionable strategies for the Performance Marketing team.
  • Ensure the team is maximizing impact of all performance marketing experiments by maintaining organized playbooks, automated systems, and dashboards that track states and thresholds for each experiment.
  • Contribute to generation of new ideas pushing boundaries within Performance Marketing.
  • Manage all day-to-day operations, including campaign strategy, execution, analysis, and reporting.
  • Constantly ideate new ways to grow and improve channel efficiency to build an offering.
  • Ensure Paid Media running in accordance with industry best practices and maintain long-term tracking.
  • Generate reports and analyze data to draw actionable insights from complex data sets using Google Sheets, Excel, Google Data (Looker) Studio.
  • Collaborate with creative and content teams to develop ad copy, visuals, and landing pages to improve CTR and conversion rates.
  • Lead high visibility calls with stakeholders, including analysis, recommendations, performance, and status updates.
  • Assist with building and refining audience strategies across paid social, programmatic, and online video advertising, leveraging first-party data, lookalike modeling, in-market segments, and contextual targeting to reach high-value users.
  • Design and execute structured A/B and multivariate tests on audiences, creatives, and placements to identify performance drivers and continuously improve campaign efficiency.
  • Create detailed campaign dashboards and recurring reports, highlighting performance by audience segment, platform, and creative. Translate findings into actionable recommendations for scaling and efficiency.
  • Monitor audience performance trends, identify underperforming segments, and reallocate budget toward high-performing cohorts to maximize ROAS and lead generation goals.
  • Put together and deliver tactical presentations that clearly deliver meaningful result data, insights and go forward recommendations.

Toptal is a global freelance marketplace that connects businesses with vetted professionals in software engineering, design, finance, project management, and product management. It works by screening applicants and accepting a small fraction (about the top 3%), then matching clients with freelancers through flexible engagement models such as managed delivery, consulting, or full-team placements. Clients pay a premium on top of freelancers’ rates, and Toptal earns revenue from this markup. The company emphasizes remote, distributed talent sourcing, allowing it to fill client needs from anywhere in the world. Its goal is to provide reliable, high-quality on-demand expertise to startups and enterprises alike, enabling teams to scale quickly without geographic constraints.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$1.4M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2010

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What believers are saying

  • Adeva deepens enterprise IT talent supply and consulting capacity.
  • Growth Collective and VironIT broaden cross-sell into marketing and custom software.
  • Global remote model supports fast matching across 140 countries and time zones.

What critics are saying

  • Upwork's cheaper marketplace weakens Toptal's premium pricing advantage.
  • European nearshore firms erode Toptal's GDPR and timezone differentiation.
  • Brand trust depends on screening claims that clients cannot independently verify.

What makes Toptal unique

  • Exclusive marketplace with rigorous vetting and top 3% acceptance.
  • Broad talent coverage spans software, design, finance, marketing, and consulting.
  • Recent acquisitions expand managed delivery beyond pure freelance matching.

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