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# Associate Director, Performance Marketing at Viral Nation Inc.

- **Company:** Viral Nation Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/viralnation/jobs/5267680007

## Job description

At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands. Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fuelled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started.

While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people. Strong performance leads to high expectations, and we must keep raising the bar!

The Associate Director leads team members across a portfolio of clients. You serve as a cross-channel performance expert accountable for strategy quality, measurement riggor, team development, and client growth across paid social, paid search, and programmatic. You translate brand strategy and business goals into high-performing campaigns across owned, retail, and e-commerce channels.

What You'll Do Here:

- Lead integrated performance strategy across a portfolio of clients, with an emphasis on paid social, and leading paid search, and programmatic if your client portfolio requires it.
- Manage and develop a team of Managers, elevating strategic quality and executional excellence across pods.
- Own senior client relationships; serve as escalation point and trusted advisor.
- Owns the development of quarterly, semi-annual and/or annual business reviews.
- Set and uphold measurement, attribution, and QA standards across the portfolio (platform attribution vs. GA, incrementality, lift testing, and retail / commerce measurement where relevant).
- Lead the optimization of media budgets across accounts, using forecasting and reallocation to maximize ROI, working closely with Managers to ensure budgets are accurate and on track to spend in full.
- Identify growth opportunities within your account portfolio and partner with leadership to expand scopes.
- Bring forward emerging capabilities (social commerce and TikTok Shop, new platforms, AI-enabled workflows) as portfolio opportunities.
- Create playbooks and principles to scale best practices and educate internal and client stakeholders.
- Partner cross-functionally with Business Intelligence, Client Services, Creative, and Influencer teams for integrated delivery.

What You Need To Have:

- 6+ years of performance marketing strategy, execution, and measurement across paid social (primary), paid search and programmatic.
- Minimum of 2+ years of experience managing team members, providing mentorship and support developing growth goals.
- Proven ability to lead strategy across multiple and complex client accounts.
- Strong measurement and attribution expertise across owned, retail, and e-commerce outcomes (DTC, major retail partners, and social commerce / TikTok Shop a plus).
- Strong storytelling and ability to influence senior internal and external stakeholders (VP / GM level).
- Highly organized, with strong accountability for timelines, deliverables, and campaign performance.
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams within an integrated agency environment.

Compensation Philosophy:

At Viral Nation, compensation is structured, performance-led, and market-aligned. Pay decisions are intentional, based on role requirements, performance, and market alignment by country, and are set to maintain internal pay equity across comparable roles and levels.

Compensation progression is tied to demonstrated performance, expanded scope, and sustained contribution over time, not tenure alone. Employee compensation is reviewed regularly through formal performance reviews and check-ins to ensure alignment with role expectations and impact.

AI in Recruitment:

Viral Nation does not use AI-enabled tools to screen, assess, rank, or select candidates – our hiring teams make all hiring decisions. AI note-taking tools may be used during interviews.

DEI Commitment:

Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.

## About Viral Nation Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Viral Nation is a global leader in social-first transformation and commerce, uniting influencer marketing, AI-powered technology, and creator representation to help brands connect with modern audiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded – $250M financing round in 2024, led by Eldridge with participation from Maverix Private Equity)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Joe Gagliese and Mat Micheli

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Advertising Services, Influencer Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Creator Economy
- **Target customers**: B2B – brands and enterprises seeking social-first marketing strategies and creator partnerships (e.g., Meta, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Walmart)
- **Mission or purpose**: To close the distance between brands and their audiences by finding smarter ways to deliver value and create tighter bonds through culture, technology, and influence.

## Products & Services
- **Influencer Marketing**: Full-service campaign management with access to a large creator roster across 35+ content verticals, supported by proprietary intelligence for vetting and attribution.
- **CreatorOS™**: AI-powered, proprietary technology for creator sourcing at scale, measurement, and attribution – optimizes creator fit and campaign ROI.
- **Viral Nation Secure™**: AI-driven brand reputation management solution that proactively mitigates brand safety and fit risks at speed and scale.
- **Paid Performance Marketing**: Always-on paid social services leveraging social platforms to drive business results.
- **Community Management**: Always-on social community engagement and customer journey elevation.
- **Social Experiential Marketing**: Offline-to-online experiential strategies that extend brand impact beyond digital.
- **Business Intelligence**: Holistic measurement and campaign performance analytics beyond vanity metrics.
- **Talent Representation**: 360° creator talent agency representing digital stars across beauty, lifestyle, food, comedy, gaming, and more.
- **Talent Ventures**: Support for creators in building long-term businesses and product lines.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of ~$197.9M (LinkedIn) / $250M (from the 2024 financing round reported by the company); Annual revenue of USD $11.2M (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eldridge (lead), Maverix Private Equity; key brand partnerships include Meta, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Walmart
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 2x revenue growth in the last two years (Greenhouse careers page)
  - Named one of Canada’s top growing companies by Globe and Mail’s Report on Business
  - Ranked on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ (2024)
  - Headcount growth of 30.1% YoY (385 employees as of 2024)
  - Operating in 11 countries (Canada, Barbados, India, Argentina, Brazil, etc.)
  - Acquired MediaKits (2022) and Eight Seven Media (2022)
  - Won 4 AVA Digital Awards (2023/2024)
  - Linkedin followers grew 71.3% yearly

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary AI technology**: CreatorOS and Secure provide unmatched creator intelligence, brand safety, and campaign optimization – a moat that competitors lack.
- **Largest creator talent agency**: Access to the biggest roster of digital creators (over 1B+ engaged customers reached) across 35+ verticals.
- **End-to-end, always-on services**: Combines talent representation, marketing services, and technology under one roof, enabling seamless social-first transformation.
- **Strong brand trust**: Works with top-tier global brands like Meta, e.l.f. Cosmetics, and Walmart.
- **Award-winning culture**: Certified Great Place To Work® and high employee satisfaction.

## Strategic Focus
- **Social-first transformation**: Continuing to move brands away from traditional media toward creator-led, social-native strategies.
- **Technology scaling**: Investing in AI and proprietary platforms (CreatorOS, Secure) to automate creator discovery, measurement, and brand safety at scale.
- **Global expansion**: Growing presence across 11+ countries and entering new markets through acquisitions and partnerships.
- **Talent ventures**: Helping creators monetize beyond campaigns into products and long-term businesses.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first work model** – flexible work arrangements with a distributed team across North America, Asia, and Latin America
- **Great Place to Work® certified** – strong culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (56% women, 55% BIPOC)
- **Benefits**: Competitive medical benefits, health spending account, flexible paid time-off, paid parental leave, Group RRSP/401(k), Employee Assistance Program, paid volunteer days, awards program, virtual communities
- **Growth environment**: Fast-paced, high-growth company (2x revenue growth, 30% headcount growth) with opportunities to work on cutting-edge AI and influencer marketing for top global brands
- **Culture**: “#OneNation” spirit – community channels, wellness challenges, recognition programs, and local meetups
- **Mission-driven**: Opportunity to shape the future of media and social commerce alongside iconic creators and brands

## Sources
1. [ViralNation.com - Home](https://www.viralnation.com/)
2. [ViralNation.com - Our Story](https://www.viralnation.com/about/our-story)
3. [ViralNation.com - Careers](https://www.viralnation.com/careers)
4. [LinkedIn - Viral Nation](https://www.linkedin.com/company/viralnationinc)
5. [Greenhouse - Jobs at Viral Nation](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/viralnation)

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