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title: 'Growth Manager at Pearmill'
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# Growth Manager at Pearmill

- **Company:** Pearmill
- **Location:** Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pearmill/ec28b5aa-2f7e-416a-a8aa-8883ad3e67e0

## Job description

## About the role

The Growth Manager role will report directly to our Head of Performance. This is a role that works closely with our clients, as well as our leadership team — giving this individual a lot of autonomy and ownership of the success of our clients and relationships.

On a day-to-day basis, you’d be responsible for managing client relationships, being in charge of the overall strategy of the accounts, and working with our team to help achieve outcomes for our clients.

We’re a small, growing team. Your responsibilities will grow and change with the company and you’ll have an enormous impact on the business.

3 awesome things about this role

- The freedom to make the role your own!
- Working across a variety of accounts with interesting people - both the clients and our colleagues.
- Having real ownership of account success!

Primary responsibilities:

- You will be the key point of contact for clients and will be responsible for building a long and lasting relationship.
- You will lead the strategy and the day-to-day running of client accounts across paid-search and paid-social channels, ensuring the delivery of strong & enduring performance results.
- You are the most organized member on the team – you know everything that’s happening on your accounts, communicate details to all the stakeholders, and are able to be in the details.
- You are effective at troubleshooting performance dips in ad spend, communicating your progress with stakeholders, and orchestrating solutions to the identified problem.
- You will be the champion of the experimentation process in order to drive more account learnings.
- You will work with the paid-social, paid-search team, creative, CRO, SEO, and lifecycle teams to implement the strategy and build a feedback loop that improves the strategy over time.
- You will identify key opportunities for growth and potential blockers of good performance for the client accounts.
- You will align the team on messaging and goals for weekly client meetings, and orchestrate the overall strategy for how we approach our relationships with clients.
- You will have an ongoing awareness of the dynamics of performance marketing and provide insight on how to leverage it.
- You will support new business pitches and pitch new services to existing clients where appropriate.

About you:

- You have 5+ years of direct account management experience in advertising.
- You’re excited about creating processes, spreadsheets, and templates.
- You’re an excellent communicator and collaborator, and think deeply about oxford commas.
- You've built with AI, not only prompted it. A workflow automation, a reporting tool, a script that took a manual step out of your week.
- You’re analytical, can fit a growth formula in your head, and use data/analytics tools effectively (e.g. Amplitude, Meta Ads Manager, Google Ads Manager, Google Analytics 4, etc).
- You have experience in managing budgets in paid search and paid social advertising.

Flourishing at Pearmill We get an unreasonable amount of satisfaction out of making the things around us better at their jobs. Clients who arrived wanting a channel fixed and left with a system. People who joined to run ad accounts and left able to build a team that runs global strategy. And most recently, our little AI agents running around our Notion docs and giving us super powers. We're a fast growing, diverse group of goofy yet dedicated marketers, creatives, engineers, and analysts, running over $500M in ad spend across 15+ platforms. Join us!

## About Pearmill

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pearmill is an AI-native creative and performance marketing agency that helps fast-scaling startups and category creators achieve exponential growth through data-driven insights, beautiful advertising, and a tech-company culture.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Operating as an Agency / Partnership)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Nima Gardideh (Co-founder, President, CTO), Mary Boyagi (Co-founder, Creative Director), Donovan McKnight (Partner, Head of Creative), Leala King (Partner, Head of Creative)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Advertising Services, Digital Performance Marketing, Creative Production, Growth Analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C startups, fast-scaling brands, and category creators in fintech, DTC, consumer goods, healthcare, and B2B.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To shift advertising towards a more trustworthy industry by producing beautiful, honest, and high-performing ads, while creating a healthier and more transparent environment for our people." [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **[Full-Funnel Performance Marketing]**: End-to-end management of paid social and paid search campaigns across platforms like Meta, Google, and TikTok, focused on delivering measurable ROAS.
- **[Data-Informed Creative Production]**: A specialized service combining creative strategy, copywriting, and design to produce high-performing ad assets that are "beautiful and honest."
- **[Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) & Analytics]**: Services that help clients optimize landing pages and user flows, paired with advanced growth analytics and attribution modeling to understand campaign effectiveness.
- **[Proprietary AI & Tech Stack]**: An "AI-native" approach where the team integrates data engineering and proprietary technology to automate workflows and enhance human judgment, setting them apart from traditional agencies. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Privately held).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue / Run Rate not disclosed; workforce of **24-30 employees**; reported to be growing faster than traditional agencies, achieving a run rate that most agencies require over a decade to reach within 5 years. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed. The company is structured as a partnership (Pearlstein McCullough, LLP) rather than a VC-backed startup. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearmill)
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Reports helping clients **3x their ROAS** on average.
    - Operates in **10 countries** with a highly distributed team.
    - Has strong LinkedIn follower growth (+18.0% yearly, total 1,630 followers). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearmill)
    - Identifies as a "fastest-growing performance marketing agency in the US."

## Competitive Advantages
- **Tech-Company Culture vs. Agency Model**: Pearmill explicitly designs itself to operate more like a tech company than a traditional agency. They focus on hiring "outliers" and providing extreme autonomy rather than relying on junior talent arbitrage. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Long-Term Client Relationships**: They are highly selective about client partnerships and are willing to "fire clients" who are not a good fit, fostering deep, long-term engagements. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Profit Sharing & Talent Retention**: A significant differentiator is their profit-sharing model, which ties team member compensation directly to the success of the business. This is rare in the agency world and aligns incentives. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
- **Integrated AI & Human Judgment**: They combine human creativity with proprietary data engineering and AI tools, claiming this blend allows them to outperform competitors who rely solely on one or the other. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling an "Outlier" Team**: The company is focused on recruiting "outliers" from unconventional backgrounds who thrive on autonomy and designing new solutions, rather than fitting a typical corporate mold. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Building a Global, Remote-First Infrastructure**: With people across New York, Bay Area, Kiev, Minneapolis, Berlin, and Skopje, they are actively building a distributed and global culture.
- **Productizing Agency Services**: They are moving toward a more tech-centric model by building AI tools and frameworks that can be reused and scaled, moving beyond one-off project work.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Transparency**: Pearmill emphasizes a "healthier and more transparent environment." They are open about their compensation philosophy, profit sharing, and even their willingness to fire incompatible clients. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Distributed, Remote, and Global**: The company is fully setup for remote work, providing a "remote work budget" and allowing staff to work from wherever they are most productive. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
- **Exceptional Perks & Benefits**:
    - 99% coverage for Health Care, Dental, and Vision. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
    - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and 6 weeks of fully paid parental leave. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
    - Profit Sharing (compensation tied to client success).
    - Unlimited vacation with a mandatory 3-week minimum.
    - 401k with 100% matching up to 4%.
    - Matching charitable donations and budget for activism.
    - Budget for learning (books, seminars, courses) and equipment (laptop, indoor plants). [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
    - Unlimited mental or physical health leave.
- **Autonomy & Impact**: Employees are given extreme autonomy and are expected to act as "outliers" with outsized impact, similar to early hires at tech giants like Stripe or Airbnb. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Engineering & Tech Focus**: While an agency, they hire engineers and data scientists to build their internal tech stack, appealing to those who want to work on ad-tech and data engineering challenges. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

## Sources
1. [pearmill.com Careers](https://pearmill.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearmill)
3. [builtin.com Company Overview](https://builtin.com/company/pearmill)
4. [theorg.com Org Chart](https://theorg.com/org/pearmill)
5. [pearmill.com Blog: Agency Culture](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

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