About the Role
Wild is seeking a senior performance marketing leader to own the next chapter of its growth, managing a larger budget, expanding into new markets, and diversifying the channel mix. This role involves fusing media buying, affiliates, partnerships, and UGC into a unified acquisition engine, focusing on sharper measurement, enhanced creative execution, and world-class performance while maintaining the brand's fast-paced, entrepreneurial spirit.
Responsibilities
- Own Wild's performance marketing strategy and budget across all markets and channels, accountable for CAC, payback, and revenue contribution.
- Set the paid media strategy across Meta, TikTok, Google, YouTube, and emerging channels, managing senior platform relationships and ensuring platform excellence.
- Lead the creative operating model for performance, defining how Wild produces, tests, and scales high-performing content globally.
- Lead the affiliates and partnerships strategy, driving efficient channel growth and managing senior commercial negotiations.
- Champion an AI-first operating model, embedding AI across media buying, creative, and partnerships to enhance team speed and efficiency.
- Own the roadmap for measurement maturity, including incrementality testing, attribution, and reporting, translating insights into investment strategies.
- Connect paid media decisions directly to Wild's LTV, retention, and unit economics in leadership discussions.
- Act as a senior voice in the marketing leadership team, deputizing for the Performance Marketing Director on performance-related matters.
Requirements
- A senior performance marketing leader (Head of or equivalent) with experience managing acquisition across multiple markets, including the US.
- Deep hands-on expertise across Meta, TikTok, and Google, with a proven ability to scale significant paid budgets.
- Commercially astute, connecting paid decisions to LTV, retention, and unit economics.
- Experience owning or closely collaborating with content or UGC functions, understanding performance creative drivers.
- Proficiency in running incrementality testing (Geo, in-platform lift, or similar) and understanding measurement trade-offs.
- Experience embedding AI into workflows and team operations.
- Experience in fast-growth consumer brands, comfortable with pace, ambiguity, and iterative shipping.
- Experience with affiliates, influencer, or commercial partnerships is a strong plus.
- Proven track record as an excellent people leader, building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams.
Skills
- Performance Marketing Strategy
- Paid Media Buying (Meta, TikTok, Google, YouTube)
- Affiliates and Partnerships
- UGC Management
- Creative Operating Model
- Measurement and Attribution
- Incrementality Testing
- AI Integration
- LTV and Unit Economics Analysis
- Team Leadership
- Commercial Negotiation
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 25 days holidays + bank holidays
- 9 extra remote working days
- Hybrid working
- Enhanced maternity, paternity & parental leave
- 4% Company Pension
- Mental well-being support
- Private healthcare
- Weekly early finishes
- Social events
- Annual L&D budget
- Free breakfast
- Free & discounted Wild products
- 2 x team volunteering days
- 2 x personal volunteering days
About the Company
- Wild is a fast-growing personal care brand focused on eliminating single-use plastic, starting with natural deodorant.
- The brand offers refillable products with collectible cases and collaborates with major IPs.
- Wild is now part of the Unilever family, enabling global expansion while retaining its start-up agility.
- The company operates as a global, omnichannel business with direct-to-consumer, new markets, new categories, and major retail partnerships.
Equal Opportunity
- At Wild, diversity drives innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating and maintaining a workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to bring their most authentic selves to work.
- We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
- We are happy to make any adjustments to help you to perform your best in the process.
