Director Performance

Own execution quality across all Paid Search and Paid Social buying, campaign setup, and pacing decisions

Establish and enforce a pre-flight checklist for every new campaign setup

Lead and mentor a team of Performance Media buyers, building a team that's decisive, cross-trained, and self-sufficient through high-intensity peak periods.

Monitor pacing daily and weekly across all active channels; proactively surface deviations, root causes, and corrective actions

Oversee flawless trafficking, QA, and platform configuration across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, SA360, and Paid Social platforms (Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snap, LinkedIn, Reddit).

Drive adoption of AI-powered campaign types (Performance Max, Advantage+, AI Max) and modern automated bidding where they improve outcomes.

Bring rigour to first-party and CRM data activation (Customer Match, Enhanced Conversions, Conversions API, clean rooms) in a privacy-safe, consent-aware way.

Contribute execution-level insight into performance reporting, translating pacing and platform data into clear, confident recommendations.

Vacancy: Is this posting for the purposes of filling an existing vacancy [ Y /N]

The salary range for this position is $100k-$110k. Actual salary within the salary range will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, and skills. A range of medical, dental, RRSP, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available to all permanent employees.

AI Disclosure: [ dentsu ] utilizes artificial intelligence tools as part of its recruitment process, as during the sourcing and screening stages. All other parts of the dentsu application and hiring processes do not utilize artificial intelligence tools.

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