Who we are:
Zilch is a payment tech company on a mission to create the most empowering way to pay for anything, anywhere. Combining the best of debit, credit and savings, we give our customers the option to earn instant cashback or spread the cost of pricier purchases, completely interest free and with no late fees. Pretty great, right?
We started in 2018 with a small team and a big dream - to make credit accessible to all. Since then, we've achieved double unicorn status and taken on more than 5 million customers. There are some exciting projects coming up and we’ve got big growth plans.
Want to join us?
The Role
The role reports to the Director of Performance Marketing and is responsible for driving incremental profitable user & transactional value (Gross Merchandise Value) growth via Performance Marketing channels, working collaboratively with the wider cross functional Growth team.
Day to Day Responsibilities
Contribute to Performance Marketing Strategy across Paid Social, Paid App, Paid Search & Programmatic advertising channels and landing page optimisation, to drive profitable incremental user acquisition & retention, supporting the Director of Performance Marketing
Own Performance Marketing targets & budgets for acquisition & retention, working closely with senior Marketing, Growth & Finance leadership on forecasting, planning & optimisation
Proactively identify growth opportunities in existing & new channels, propose new initiatives to test, run experiments across creative, media buying and signals, report on outcomes and provide recommendations/iterative improvements
Own Paid Social creative strategy and analysis, working closely with the in-house design team and external video agency to produce high-performing ads
Hands on campaign planning, execution, optimisation & reporting
Keep on top of latest performance marketing trends & tools to improve efficiency and impact of performance marketing, and wider marketing & design team
Cross functional collaboration with wider marketing & design function, as well as data, product, engineering, sales, finance & risk teams to improve outcomes for customers, merchants & Zilch
We're Looking for
Proven performance marketer who is both strategic & hands on, ideally in rapidly growing scale up environments with experience of managing multi-million pound annual budgets
Significant Paid Social & Paid App advertising experience, especially with creative optimisation
Experience in landing page & customer journey optimisation to ensure users have cohesive experience and ultimately improve acquisition conversion rates
Proactive, user-centric, commercially astute and data-driven approach to problem solving & identification of opportunities
Experience with different experimentation / measurement techniques & tools in performance marketing to understand incremental impact of activity & spend
Exceptional communication & stakeholder management, with the ability to summarise deeply technical & analytical topics to more strategic & commercial stakeholders
Specific required platform experience: Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, Google Ads, Bing Ads, Apple Search Ads, Google Analytics, Appsflyer
Productivity tools: Microsoft Office suite
Desirable but not essential: Programmatic (Display & Video) and / or fintech industry experience, use of AI to improve performance marketing workflows and performance (e.g. creative production & optimisation, identification of industry trends, reporting & recommendations)
Benefits.
Compensation & Savings:
Pension scheme.
Death in Service scheme.
Income Protection.
Permanent employees enjoy access to our Share Options Scheme.
5% back on in-app purchases.
£200 for WFH Setup.
Health & Wellbeing:
Private Medical Insurance including;
GP consultations (video, telephone or face-to-face).
Prescribed medication.
In-patient, day-patient and out-patient care.
Mental health support.
Optical, dental & audiological cover.
Physiotherapy.
Advanced cancer cover.
Menopause support.
Employee Assistance Programme including:
Unlimited mental health sessions.
24/7 remote GP & physiotherapy.
24/7 helpline for emotional & practical support.
Savings & discounts on everyday shopping.
1:1 personalised well-being consultations.
Gym membership discounts.
Family Friendly Policies:
Enhanced maternity pay.
Enhanced paternity pay.
Enhanced adoption pay.
Enhanced shared parental leave.
Learning & Development:
Professional Qualifications.
Professional Memberships.
Learning Suite for e-courses.
Internal Training Programmes.
FCA & Regulatory training.
Workplace Perks:
Hybrid working: office-based Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; remote working Tuesday and Friday
Casual dress code.
Workplace socials.
Healthy snacks.