Growth Marketing Manager

DigiCert Open · verified Sep 10, 2026

Cape Town Manager Growth Marketing

Mid-level Growth Marketing role at DigiCert. Cape Town.

Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

Build and improve growth systems for self-service, e-commerce, cross-sell, upsell, and sales-assisted motions
Run paid search, social, retargeting, display, YouTube, affiliate, and emerging-channel campaigns
Work with design to create and test social ads, infographics, and landing-page banners
Improve the buying path from landing page through cart and checkout to increase purchases
Use performance data to guide campaign changes, budget allocation, and future investment

What you bring

Bring at least three years in growth, performance, paid media, or e-commerce marketing focused on online conversion and revenue
Have hands-on experience launching and improving paid campaigns across channels such as Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, and Meta
Diagnose performance across audiences, channels, offers, creative, landing pages, carts, checkouts, and sales handoffs
Manage budgets, pacing, testing plans, tracking, attribution, reporting, and multiple campaigns at once

Who this fits

You’ll suit a hands-on growth marketer who can turn incomplete growth ideas into repeatable systems and improve buying journeys through testing. Experience with cybersecurity, digital trust, SaaS, or technical B2B products is useful. The role is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

From the employer

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com

Job summary

DigiCert is looking for a Growth Marketing Manager, Performance Engines to help build and scale self-service and e-commerce growth across DigiCert’s digital product portfolio.This role exists to turn validated growth opportunities into repeatable, measurable revenue systems.You will take promising signals, build the performance engine around them, optimize the buying journey, and scale what works.You will own hands-on performance marketing execution across DigiCert’s self-service and e-commerce products, including unit-based products such as TLS and Mark Certificates, as well as SaaS product lines like DNS.

What you will do

Build, operate, and optimize performance engines across self-service, e-commerce checkout, cross-sell, upsell, and sales-assisted motions.
Own paid media performance across paid search, paid social, retargeting, display, YouTube, affiliates, and emerging channels. This includes budget planning, pacing, campaign QA, audience selection, keyword strategy, creative testing, bid strategy, and reporting.
Partner closely with a dedicated design team to develop and test creative assets including social ads, infographics, and landing page banners.
Continuously test and optimize audiences, offers, creative, landing pages, bidding strategies, and channel mix to improve conversion, pipeline impact, and move toward net-positive ROAS.
Own the e-commerce conversion experience from traffic to add-to-cart to checkout, including landing pages, offer presentation, product packaging, cart behavior, promotions, urgency, bundling, and purchase intent.
Translate performance data into clear recommendations on what is working, what is not, what to change, and where to invest next.

Your track record

You have increased qualified inbound traffic, add-to-carts, conversion rates, pipeline, revenue, ARR, ROI, or ROAS.
You have managed paid media programs hands-on and understand how to test new channels, optimize existing channels, and make informed budget recommendations.
You have improved e-commerce or self-service buying experiences by diagnosing where buyers drop off and testing ways to move more visitors from browsing to purchase.
You can take a partially formed growth motion, build the operating system around it, and make the numbers move.

What you will have

3+ years of experience in growth marketing, performance marketing, paid media, or e-commerce marketing, with a strong emphasis on driving conversions and revenue through direct-to-consumer or online retail channels.
Hands-on experience building and optimizing paid media campaigns across channels such as Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Meta, display, retargeting, YouTube, affiliates, or other acquisition channels.
Strong analytical instincts with the ability to diagnose performance across traffic, audience, channel, offer, creative, landing page, cart, checkout, nurture, and sales handoff.
Ability to manage budgets, pacing, testing roadmaps, tracking, attribution, and reporting while running multiple campaigns and optimizations at once.

Nice to have

Experience in cybersecurity, digital trust, SaaS, or technical B2B products.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package
Generous paid time off, including holidays and additional leave options
Family-friendly leave policies, including maternity, paternity, and other supportive leave programs
Health and wellness support, including medical cover (where applicable), gym reimbursements, and mental well-being resources
Pension, life insurance, and income protection benefits (location dependent)
Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 confidential support for employees and their families
Education assistance and professional development opportunities
Access to LinkedIn Learning and continuous learning resources
Employee referral bonus program and additional company perks and discounts
Business travel insurance and global employee support programs

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