Head of Performance Marketing

LemFi

Head of Performance Marketing leading global paid acquisition strategy and growth initiatives for fintech company. Overseeing diverse marketing channels and driving impactful user acquisition across borders.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the full paid acquisition engine across Meta, TikTok, Google, YouTube, and emerging platforms, making the final call on which campaigns scale, pause, or get killed, guided by strict payback discipline.
Architect a tiered corridor budget framework: doubling down in mature lanes, stress-testing new launch corridors, and maintaining baseline efficiency across markets.
Lead a continuous creative testing pipeline for culturally nuanced, diaspora-specific ad creative, pairing localised digital (DOOH, programmatic) with community saturation flights in high-density immigrant cities.
Own the install-to-transfer funnel, working tightly with Product, Data, and Compliance to ensure paid traffic doesn't just download the app but clears KYC and completes a first funded transfer.
Drive incrementality discipline: geo-lift tests, holdout experiments, and MMM reads are your source of truth; you are the gatekeeper of CAC and payback period inputs for all growth investment decisions.
Build and maintain a KPI framework that connects individual and team performance to broader business goals, enabling data-driven decision-making at every level.
Connect team-level KPIs to long-term business health by incorporating CLV alongside CAC and retention metrics into the performance framework.
Structure the team's workflows using AI agents, custom prompts, and automation tools, eliminating routine toil, accelerating creative iteration, and surfacing performance anomalies before they become budget fires.
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Analytics, Brand, and Compliance to keep acquisition strategy tightly coupled to the product activation loops that turn new users into long-term LemFi customers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in digital, paid performance, or growth marketing; fintech, mobile consumer apps, remittance, or high-growth consumer SaaS strongly preferred.
Proven track record running large monthly paid media budgets across Meta, Google, and TikTok with a consistent record of hitting CPA and payback targets at scale.
Some prior management experience required. This doesn't need to be extensive, but candidates should have experience leading, mentoring, or managing at least a small team.
Multi-market campaign experience across different geographies, regulatory environments, and cultural contexts; familiarity with diaspora demographics is a significant advantage.
This is a highly technical performance marketing role: deep fluency in causal attribution, geo-lift testing, holdout experiments, and Marketing Mix Modeling (you run on proof, not last-click assumptions), plus hands-on comfort with tracking setups, pixels, conversion APIs, attribution models, reporting dashboards, experimentation frameworks, and performance analysis at a granular level.
Strong product-led instincts: you understand the full funnel from ad click through KYC to first active transaction, and you know how to close gaps in it.
AI Builder: you already use AI tools (Claude, custom GPTs, automation platforms) to eliminate manual work and amplify team output; this isn't aspirational for you, it's how you operate.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Flexible working hours
Professional development budget
Home office setup allowance
Global team events

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Hard Skills & Tools

Geo-Lift TestingHoldout ExperimentsConversion APIsAttribution ModelsPerformance AnalysisKYC ProcessesCampaign OptimizationData-Driven Decision MakingCreative TestingMulti-Market Campaign Management

Soft Skills

Team LeadershipMentoringCross-Functional CollaborationStrategic ThinkingProblem Solving