Strategic Digital Performance Manager / Director of Digital Performance & Strategy

• Salary: $90,000 - $120,000 per year
• Location: Toms River, NJ (Hybrid – Minimum 3 days in-office)
• Reports To: CEO
• Please read the entire position description before applying...

Position overview:

Conduit Digital is seeking an elite leader to serve as our Strategic Digital Performance Manager (with a path to Director for the ideal candidate) who understands that the best leaders are also the best teammates. We aren't looking for a "boss" who stays on the sidelines; we are looking for an elite strategist who leads from the front.

As a premier white-label digital marketing agency, we power established North American agencies as their digital operations team. They don’t just come to us for execution; they come to us for strategic planning that delivers positive outcomes.

Our Strategic Digital Performance Manager will be an integral part of our daily operations, serving as the strategic mind our agency partners rely on, while remaining a hands-on resource for our internal specialists. You understand that strategy without action is just conversation, and you aren't afraid to roll up your sleeves to help the team cross the finish line.

This isn’t a passenger seat. This is the wheel.

What’s In It For You

• Accelerated Pathing: A clear, performance-based roadmap from Manager to Director.
• Organizational Influence: Direct access to the CEO and a seat at the table for agency-wide scaling decisions.
• Elite Ecosystem: Work alongside specialists who are as driven as you are.
• Modern Flexibility: A hybrid schedule that respects your professional autonomy and local lifestyle.
• Total Compensation: A competitive salary ($90k–$120k) with a comprehensive benefits package (Health, 401k, PTO).

The Role:

Strategic Architecture & Partnership:

• You won't just oversee campaigns; you will develop powerful, holistic strategic plans. You must be able to translate complex digital ecosystems into clear, actionable narratives and deliver them to our agency partners with confidence, building trust through transparency and results.

Hands-On Performance & Support

• Deep digital platform experience and expertise is essential. Because you understand the nuances of Meta, Google, and Programmatic platforms, you can provide real quality control and guidance. You’re there to help the team solve problems, review structures, and ensure every optimization is moving the needle for the client.

Accountable Leadership:

• Lead and mentor a team of specialists across Paid Search, Paid Social, SEO, and Programmatic. You will build a culture where excellence is the standard and accountability is a shared value. You are a good human who leads with empathy for the person, but zero compromise on the quality of the work. Outcomes cannot be compromised.

The GPS Framework & Outcomes:

• Own the "strategic health" of assigned accounts. You will translate business goals into highly measurable success criteria (CPL, ROAS, CAC) and ensure our execution stays strategically aligned, performance-driven, and paced for success.

Elite Team Development:

• Lead and help build a team of specialists across Paid Search, Paid Social, SEO, and Programmatic. You will build a culture where accountability is the standard, making tough decisions with fairness and conviction while mentoring the next generation of Conduit leaders.

Key (KPA) Performance Actions:

• Strategic Retention & Expansion: Maintain a 90%+ client retention rate by identifying growth opportunities and proving the business value of our partnership through quarterly strategic reviews.
• Account Goal Pacing: Ensure at least 85% of assigned accounts are pacing on track or ahead of their stated targets.
• Transparent Performance Analysis: Deliver a monthly data-specific analysis for every account. This is a rigorous "look under the hood" that provides total accountability to the performance goal, a transparent breakdown of what happened, and a specific preview of the optimization work to be executed.
• Weekly Deep-Dive Audits: Conduct a comprehensive audit of one key account per week. You will present these findings—highlighting risks, wins, and technical nuances—to our Agency Management team to ensure elite-level execution.
• Impactful Team Training: Lead two comprehensive team training sessions per month. You are responsible for elevating the collective IQ of the team by sharing platform updates, new strategic frameworks, or optimization techniques.
• Monthly Success Story: Produce a minimum of one fully documented, quantified account success story per month that highlights the team's wins and the specific actions that led to them.

What You Bring:

• 5+ Years of Agency-Level Experience: You have a proven track record of leadership and high-level strategic ideation and implementation.
• Vision: You possess the ability to see the opportunity ahead and the leadership to support our team in building toward it.
• Curiosity: You approach policy, process, and performance with a "what’s possible" mindset, constantly tangibly delivering on that vision.
• Consistency: High rises are built on a stable and reliable infrastructure and inconsistency is the enemy of progress.
• Clarity: You bring structure to complexity and provide crystal clear direction under pressure.
• Proximity: Ability to be in our Toms River, NJ office at least 3/4 days per week.
• Hands-On Platform Expertise: You have personally run, highly optimized, and scaled campaigns. You know the "why" behind the data.
• A "Consultant" Mindset: You can present complex strategies to agency partners in a way that builds trust and wins buy-in.
• A Land the Plane Mindset: You understand that ideas without action is entertainment and you get $^&* done.

The Conduit Culture: Are You a Fit?

• Driven & Accountable: You take ownership and refuse to settle for "good enough."
• Genuinely Good Human: You care about your team and lead with empathy. You don't confuse kindness with lowering standards; you help people grow by holding them to their best.
• Hard-working: You understand that excellence requires effort, and you’re willing to put in the work alongside your team.

How to Apply

We are looking for evidence of leadership and strategic depth. To be considered, please submit:

• Your Resume & whatever else you wanted to share.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toms River, NJ 08753