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Senior Performance Manager

TotallyAwesome

TotallyAwesome

Victoria, TX, USA
Posted on Jan 22, 2026

WHO ARE WE?

Our vision is to transform human behaviour into actionable intelligence.

SQREEM is a leading Cognitive AI company specializing in delivering Behavioral Intelligence, a transformative approach to understanding, mapping, and predicting human behavior.

Using our proprietary Cognitive AI model, we process over 4 billion unrelated and unstructured data signals daily from the Open Web across 70+ countries. By decoding patterns, uncovering intent, and analyzing behaviors, we transform vast, complex datasets into actionable intelligence that businesses rely on to make smarter, more precise decisions.

Our innovative technology powers ONE, our proprietary end-to-end platform, which enables organizations to turn complex behaviors into clear, data-driven insights. From understanding audience intent to curating highly refined segments, ONE bridges the gap between data and decision-making, empowering businesses to unlock meaningful engagement at scale.

The result is the world’s largest library of privacy-first, non-PII, GDPR-compliant intent and demographic signals, including ID-free cohorts that meet the highest global privacy and security standards, such as HIPAA, COPPA, GDPR, and ISO-27001.

To reach an under 18 audience, our platform, TotallyAwesome, is a contextual-first marketing solution that enhances ad effectiveness without using personal data and guarantees 100% brand safety. By combining human moderation, AI and psychological expertise, we deliver the right content to the right audience at the right time. Our multi-channel solutions reach over 600 million monthly users in APAC across Apps, Sites, YouTube and Gaming.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

How will YOU contribute to the Team?

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Performance Manager (Individual Contributor role) to support complex programmatic and social delivery within our Melbourne pod.

The ideal candidate will possess a deep technical background in programmatic and social trading, strong troubleshooting capability, and the ability to confidently handle complex, high-value client campaigns. This role is not a people management position, but instead a senior specialist role focused on elevating technical excellence and providing expert-level support on advanced trading challenges, while sharing knowledge with the wider teams.

This role is crucial for solving complex setups, supporting client conversations where senior technical depth is required, and lifting the overall capability of the pod through hands-on expertise.

As the Senior Performance Manager, you will be responsible for end-to-end programmatic and social setup, execution, optimisation and advanced troubleshooting across programmatic and social platforms. This includes tagging, CM360 workflows, attribution-related setups, dynamic product feeds, and ensuring high-quality delivery against client KPIs. You will work as a technical counterpart to the pod lead, providing depth on the most challenging campaigns.

You will collaborate closely with Sales, Account Management and Product teams to ensure our AI-driven solutions are implemented effectively in market.

In your role, you will be primarily responsible for ensuring that we deliver and execute world class Programmatic, SEM and Social campaigns both in Australia and globally, with a focus on complex briefs, enterprise clients, and high-attention trading requirements.

Your role and responsibilities include, but is not limited to:

  • Campaign Execution & Optimisation
    • Set up, manage, and optimise programmatic and social campaigns across DSPs (e.g., DV360, TTD, Magnite, META Ads, OpenX etc).
    • Own advanced trading tasks such as CM360 implementation, tagging, pixel QA, feed troubleshooting, and attribution-related setups.
    • Implement and manage trading strategies to achieve financial targets and optimise trading performance
    • Implement precision-led audience strategies, targeting models, and optimisation rules.
    • Monitor pacing, delivery, performance trends, and troubleshoot delivery issues.
    • Conduct daily optimisation to maximise ROI and ensure KPI alignment (CTR, CPA, ROAS, VTR, reach, etc.).
    • Act as a senior technical resource, taking on the most complex campaign builds and optimisation challenges.
  • Performance Analytics & Reporting
    • Analyse trading performance metrics and generate reports to evaluate the effectiveness of trading strategies
    • Partner with data teams to integrate AI outputs into trading strategies.
    • Prepare weekly/monthly reports with clear insights and actionable recommendations.
    • Support pre-campaign forecasting and post-campaign analysis.
    • Provide senior-level interpretation of data to support client discussions when needed.
  • Client & Internal Stakeholder Support
    • Collaborate with Account Managers on campaign strategy, pacing plans, and technical recommendations.
    • Participate in client calls to provide senior trading expertise, particularly for complex or high-stakes conversations.
    • Participate in client calls to discuss results or provide trading expertise when needed.
    • Work closely with Product and AI teams to test new tools, features, and models.
    • Serve as the technical counterpart in client meetings when advanced troubleshooting or expert explanation is required.
  • Operational Excellence
    • Ensure campaign QA, tagging, and implementation processes are followed accurately.
    • Manage budgets, pacing, and delivery across multiple concurrent campaigns.
    • Maintain documentation for campaign setups and optimisations.
    • Identify process improvements to enhance workflow efficiency.
    • Share knowledge with the broader team (light-touch), but do not manage or lead team members.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.
  • 5–7+ years of hands-on Programmatic Media Trading experience, with proven capability handling complex enterprise-level campaigns.
  • Strong expertise with Google Ads, DV360 META Ads, Tik Tok and Programmatic DSPs – at least one major DSP (TTD, Magnite, OpenX etc).
  • Solid price & performance optimisation mindset and strong analytical abilities, with proficiency in Excel/Sheet.
  • Experience managing multi-channel programmatic campaigns (Display, Video, CTV, Native).
  • Deep technical troubleshooting experience, including:
    • Tagging & CM360 implementation
    • Pixels, attribution, dynamic product feeds
    • Resolving tracking discrepancies and advanced technical issues
  • Comfortable taking ownership of highly complex briefs requiring senior expertise.
  • Familiarity with AI-driven optimisation tools or dynamic audience models (advantage).
  • Strong communication skills and ability to present performance insights clearly.
  • Experience in AdTech/MarTech, agency trading desk or brand-side trading roles preferred.
  • Genuine curiosity about the advancements in AI technologies, with an eagerness to explore new concepts and innovations.

OUR ETIQUETTE

We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. In our culture, we live by the following values:

  • Innovation & Agility
  • Teamwork & Collaboration
  • Data Integrity & Ethics
  • Results driven performance
  • Human by design

Our people are at the heart of what we do and the driving force behind our growth and success. We value our culture as the lifeblood of our business and work hard every day to maintain this as we continue to grow and scale our team. We believe in offering opportunities to learn and grow every day, and we’ve got a strong track record in developing great people.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We review job applications without regard to their race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, and marital status.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

  • You are self-starter, independent, and problem-solving. You consider yourself a high-performance personality
  • Understand what it means to deliver excellence.
  • Good sense of humor and ability to stay calm under pressure.
  • Well-organised with excellent communication and time management skills.

WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU

  • Our people are at the heart of what we do and the driving force behind our growth and success.
  • We value our culture as the lifeblood of our business and work hard every day to maintain this as we continue to grow and scale our team.
  • We believe in offering opportunities to learn and grow every day and we’ve got a strong track record in developing great people.
  • We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We review job applications without regard to their race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, and marital status.
  • Unlimited leave!
  • Finish early Fridays!
  • Social work environment
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Mentorship programs
  • Remote working support across multiple markets
  • We are a team of passionate experts. We are not just leading this industry; we are defining it.

Please send us your resume in English to careers@sqreem.com.