Performance Marketing Manager
cursor Open · verified Oct 25, 2026 At a glance
Manager-level Performance Marketing role at cursor. San Francisco · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $136,672–$155,625.
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What you'll do
- Scale paid acquisition across Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, YouTube and developer-focused platforms
- Shape search, paid social and retargeting plans, then optimize campaigns for qualified signups, pipeline and revenue
- Test copy, creative concepts and landing pages for technical audiences with creative, content and product marketing teams
- Tune keywords, audiences and bids to improve customer acquisition cost and payback
- Own attribution and tracking, analyze funnel results, and share weekly findings through dashboards and reporting
What you bring
- You have managed paid media for a mobile app and can grow spend while protecting campaign performance
- You bring deep Google Ads experience, including Search, YouTube or Performance Max, plus a major paid social channel
- You understand CAC, LTV, payback and conversion metrics, and can analyze cohorts and model performance
- You have used analytics and attribution tools and can assess campaign outcomes with data
Who this fits
This suits a hands-on, analytical marketer who moves quickly, tests often and works across creative, product marketing, sales, lifecycle, data and engineering. The role is based in San Francisco and requires working from the office.
From the employer
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.
About the role
We’re hiring a Performance Marketing Manager to help scale our growth engine. You’ll build and optimize full-funnel campaigns across Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, YouTube, and emerging developer-focused platforms—turning paid media investment into qualified signups, pipeline, and revenue.
This is a highly analytical, hands-on role with ownership spanning channel strategy, campaign execution, creative testing, landing-page experimentation, and measurement. You’ll work closely with creative, content, product marketing, sales, lifecycle, data, and engineering to improve performance at every stage of the funnel, from the first impression through downstream conversion.
The ideal candidate combines strong paid media expertise with commercial judgment, intellectual curiosity, and a bias toward action. You’re comfortable managing meaningful budgets, digging into attribution and cohort data, and running structured experiments to uncover new growth levers. You’ll thrive here if you move quickly, communicate insights clearly, and are energized by the opportunity to go above and beyond when a high-impact opportunity arises.
This role is based in San Francisco requires an in-office presence.
What you’ll do
Own and scale paid acquisition across channels including Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, YouTube, and emerging developer-focused platforms
Build and optimize full-funnel campaigns that drive qualified signups, pipeline, and revenue, not just clicks
Develop channel strategy across search, paid social, retargeting, and experimentation budgets
Test ad copy and creative angles tailored to technical audiences.
Partner closely with creative, content, and product marketing to ship high-performing ad concepts and landing page iterations
Manage campaign structure, keyword strategy, audience segmentation, and bidding to improve CAC and payback
Own measurement and attribution, with support from ops and engineering: tracking setup, conversion quality, offline conversion imports, and incrementality testing
Analyze performance trends and communicate results clearly through dashboards, reporting, and weekly insights
Run structured experiments to identify new growth levers (new audiences, formats, offers, onboarding flows)
Collaborate with sales, lifecycle, and data teams to improve lead quality and conversion rates downstream
Stay current on platform changes, AI-driven campaign formats, and new opportunities in the paid media ecosystem
You may be a fit if you have:
Proven ability to manage meaningful monthly budgets and scale spend efficiently while maintaining performance
Experience managing paid media for a mobile app
Deep expertise in Google Ads (Search, YouTube, Performance Max) and at least one major paid social platform
Strong understanding of funnel metrics: CAC, LTV, payback period, and conversion rates
Experience with analytics and attribution tools.
Highly analytical mindset with comfort in spreadsheets, cohort analysis, and performance modeling
Ability to move fast, test often, and iterate based on data and user insight
Comfortable working cross-functionally in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment
Experience in B2B paid media
The ability to work in person from our San Francisco office
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