Performance & Growth Marketing Lead

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Amsterdam, NLD
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Quantitative Trading
The Role
The Performance & Growth Lead will define marketing performance strategies, drive improvement across channels, own performance outcomes, and ensure quality execution while leading agencies.
Summary Generated by Built In

We’re looking for a Performance & Growth Lead to define how our marketing efforts translate into measurable impact. This is not a hands-on execution role. You will define and lead performance strategies within the broader marketing direction, guide execution, and ensure we continuously improve outcomes across regions and channels, strengthening how marketing contributes to broader business outcomes and attracts and converts high-quality talent. We’re investing in how we show up to the world, to do that effectively; we need to be sharper in how we translate strategy into measurable impact. This role is central to making that happen.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

Define performance strategy 

  • Translate business and hiring priorities into a clear multi-channel growth approach 
  • Define how channels contribute across the funnel (awareness → conversion)
  • Define channel roles, investment logic, and optimisation frameworks
  • Bring structure to how paid and organic efforts work together 

Own performance outcomes 

  • Define and own global performance KPIs, with accountability for both volume and quality of results 
  • Turn performance data into clear decisions and priorities, identifying and scaling opportunities for improvement across channels and regions 

Own execution quality (via teams and partners) 

  • Set direction for investment, campaign approach, and optimisation, ensuring high-quality execution across paid channels  
  • Raise capability and consistency across teams through clear standards, frameworks, and best practices 

Lead agencies

  • Set direction for media and performance partners, challenging plans and holding agencies accountable for results 

Define measurement direction (with you) 

  • Ensure performance is measured against meaningful business outcomes, partnering on tracking, dashboards, and data quality.
  • Leverage performance insights to inform content, campaigns, and website optimisation

Drive consistency across regions

  • Establish performance principles and guardrails, raising the standard of performance marketing across teams and regions
WHO YOU ARE
  • 8 - 12 years in performance marketing, growth or demand generation 
  • Strong experience across paid channels, with a strategic, not execution-only lens
  • Proven track record of owning performance outcomes
  • Experience leading agencies and driving execution through others
  • Strong analytical thinkingyou turn data into decisions, not just reports, with a solid understanding of measurement, tracking, attribution, and their inherent limitations
  • Experience working across multiple markets or stakeholder groups
  • You’re comfortable in environments where not everything is fully defined yet and you know how to bring structure without slowing things down.
  • You are accountable for how campaigns are structured, optimised, and improved, and you stay close enough to the work to ensure quality
  • You bring a commercial and marketing lens beyond martech or analytics infrastructure
  • You actively lead and challenge agencies instead of managing them passive 
WHO WE ARE

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

  • A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool.
  • The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
  • 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
  • Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
  • Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
  • Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
  • Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.
HOW TO APPLY

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

  • We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
  • We cannot accept applications via email
DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Skills Required

  • 8 - 12 years in performance marketing or growth
  • Strong experience across paid channels
  • Proven track record of owning performance outcomes
  • Experience leading agencies
  • Strong analytical thinking skills
  • Experience working across multiple markets or stakeholder groups

Optiver Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Optiver and has not been reviewed or approved by Optiver.

  • Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards Pay is considered highly competitive in trading, quantitative, and engineering paths, with performance-linked bonuses that materially elevate total compensation. High performers receive differentiated rewards tied to impact.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Generous paid vacation alongside market holidays is a consistent component of the U.S. package. This breadth of leave is a notable element of the offering.
  • Healthcare Strength Comprehensive health coverage—including medical, dental, and vision—is prominently offered in U.S. roles, with indications that employee premiums are fully covered in some cases. Disability and life coverage further strengthen the core health benefits.

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The Company
HQ: Amsterdam
1,600 Employees
Year Founded: 1986

What We Do

Optiver’s story began over 30 years ago, when we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, we are at the forefront of trading and technology as a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management.

Why Work With Us

People at Optiver love challenges, welcome collaboration, and strive to be better tomorrow than they are today. Improving the market is an extraordinary challenge that requires a carefully crafted approach. Optiver provides a collaborative working environment to tackle these challenges. In fact, it is this way of working that sets us apart.

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