Senior Director Acquisition Marketing
NinjaTrader is a futures trading provider offering integrated desktop, web, and mobile trading platforms, futures brokerage services, single stock futures, market data, charting, simulation, education, and support. It serves retail, professional, new, and experienced active traders.
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About NinjaTrader
NinjaTrader provides futures brokerage and proprietary trading-platform services through NinjaTrader Group, LLC and its affiliates. Its offerings include access to global futures markets, single stock futures, desktop, web, and mobile trading platforms, charting and analysis tools, market data, simulated trading, risk-management features, customization through a C# development framework, education, livestreams, and customer support. NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC is a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant and NFA member serving retail and professional traders.
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About the Role
You will own paid acquisition strategy, investment, performance, and international expansion. You will lead performance marketers and external partners, establish measurement and experimentation practices, direct creative testing, and present growth recommendations to executive leadership.
Requirements
- 12+ years of growth or performance marketing experience
- Significant experience leading teams
- Experience owning a paid acquisition function at scale
- Experience building paid acquisition in new international markets
- Experience managing seven-figure or greater monthly media spend
- Expertise in Google, Meta, YouTube, programmatic, influencer and affiliate, iOS, and Android paid channels
- Knowledge of CPA, CAC, lifetime value, ROAS, payback period, incrementality, and media mix modeling
- Experience with attribution design and predictive cohort modeling
- Marketing team building and development experience
- Agency and platform partner management and commercial negotiation experience
- Executive strategy presentation and data storytelling skills
- Strategic prioritization and decision-making skills
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year paid acquisition strategy and annual investment plans
- Own a seven-figure monthly media budget and acquisition performance
- Present acquisition strategy, performance, and investment cases to executives
- Build paid acquisition across Europe and other international markets
- Determine market operating models, channel mix, localization, and entry economics
- Build international vendor partnerships and internal acquisition capabilities
- Ensure acquisition activities meet local regulatory requirements
- Lead, develop, hire, and structure a performance marketing team
- Manage agency and platform partner selection, commercial terms, and performance
- Run paid-channel experimentation programs
- Partner on attribution and predictive cohort models
- Own acquisition reporting and executive narratives
- Direct performance creative testing
- Design growth loops across paid, organic, content, and SEO programs
- Evaluate new channels, betas, and market shifts
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with up to 3.5% company match
- 23 days of annual paid time off
- Seven paid holidays
- 20 additional flex remote days annually
- Five company-wide office-optional weeks tied to major holidays
- Five conditional holidays annually
- One service day annually
- Paid parental bonding leave
- Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance fully covered by NinjaTrader
