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title: 'Performance Marketing Manager at Tin Can'
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# Performance Marketing Manager at Tin Can

- **Company:** Tin Can
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Compensation:** $113k–$142k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tin-can/5fb21823-672d-4ac7-8b31-46d8041e167b

## Job description

## About Tin Can

Here at Tin Can, we're working to give kids the social independence we had growing up—without smartphones. We've built a remix of the classic home phone we had when we were young, but on a totally private network and with a bunch of added safety functionality (plus some fun surprise features in the pipeline).

We're building a bold, authentic, nostalgic, and kinda quirky brand that resonates with folks who want something simpler & better for their kids than the tech-infused lives we're currently living (and who have a sense of humor about it). As we gear up to reach more families at home and abroad, we're ready to bring on someone to take our paid acquisition program from "working" to "unmistakably a machine."

## The Role

We're looking for a Performance Marketing Manager to turn our paid acquisition program into a reliable, scaled growth engine. Paid is already one of our fastest-growing ways of reaching new families, and it's set for serious growth starting this Q4 and carrying into 2027 and beyond. The machine is built and it has real momentum—your job is to take what's working and make it a whole lot bigger. This is a hands-on seat. You'll be in the accounts, in the data, and in the creative reviews—not steering from a dashboard three layers up.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own paid social on Meta. Optimize it continuously, using performance data to guide targeting, budget, and creative decisions—and stay ahead of whatever the platform changes next.
- Keep the creative pipeline full. Partner with our in-house influencer team and external partners so there's always a steady stream of ads flowing through the account that perform and look like us.
- Push beyond Meta. Test new platforms, scale the ones that earn their place, and build a diversified engine that doesn't wobble when one channel does.
- Build the dashboards you need (if they don’t already exist, which they probably do) to catch what's working, and what isn't, in near real time with the support of an analytics team and tooling that make this genuinely painless.
- Own budget planning and pacing across channels, allocating spend against performance and growth targets.
- Partner with Brand to amplify bigger campaigns and moments through paid, in lockstep with organic, influencer, lifecycle, and PR.

## What We're Looking For

- 4–6+ years in performance marketing, with deep hands-on fluency in paid social as your primary domain—and a reaction to new channels that's closer to "ooh" than "ugh."
- End-to-end ownership. You've run a paid acquisition program yourself, strategy through execution.
- Data and creative, both. You back every decision with the numbers, and you just know a good ad when you see one.
- An eye for brand. This is a performance role first, but you're also protecting our tone and look as things move fast—catching what's off-brand before it goes live.
- Low-ego and collaborative. This seat is highly cross-functional. You push for what you need while being respectful of everyone else's time and priorities.

## What You'll Have to Work With

- Budget: The budget limit does not exist. If the CAC math works, we'll keep pouring fuel on the fire.
- Data & Analytics: You won't have to fight for data. Between Hex and our existing dashboards, there's no ask too small and no chart too complicated to stand up—fast.
- Creative: If the current pipeline can't keep pace with what paid needs, you have the standing to ask for more—and get it.
- Growth: Grow the paid engine and the next step is building and leading a team of your own. This starts as a seat where you're doing the work yourself, with real room to grow beyond it.

Why Join Tin Can?

- We're building tech that protects childhood. We're on a quest to give kids a more analog childhood—one with real conversations, real connection, and way less screen time. This is a rare chance to build something that truly matters.
- A seat with real reach. Paid is how most families meet us for the first time. You own that first impression and the growth that follows—not one narrow slice of it.
- Small, high-trust team. Every company says "team," but at Tin Can it means something different. We're a small, mission-driven group that genuinely has each other's backs—professionally and personally. Your ideas and instincts matter from day one.

If you're ready to build the engine that introduces Tin Can to the next hundred thousand families, we'd love to hear from you. Reach out with your resume and a short note on the paid program you're proudest of—what you inherited, what you changed, and what it looks like now.

## About Tin Can

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tin Can builds a screen-free, Wi-Fi-enabled landline for kids that allows them to call approved contacts without the distractions of a smartphone.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Chet Kittleson, Max Blumen, and Graeme (last name not publicly available)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer Services / Kids’ Communication Hardware
- **Target customers**: B2C – parents of children aged 4–13 who want a safe, screen-free phone option
- **Mission**: “Bring back the freedom of the old-school landline, updated for today’s families.”

## Products & Services
- **[Tin Can Device](https://tincan.kids/)**: A custom-designed, Wi-Fi-connected landline handset with no screen, no apps, no camera, and no browser. It plugs into a wall and connects over Wi-Fi. Parents manage contacts and quiet hours via a companion mobile app.
- **[Can2Can Plan](https://tincan.kids/)**: Free unlimited calling between two Tin Cans, no subscription required.
- **[Party Line Plan](https://tincan.kids/)**: $9.99/month subscription that allows the child to call any regular phone number (grandparents, parents’ cells, etc.) in addition to other Tin Cans. Includes 911 emergency calling.
- **Parent App**: iOS/Android app for approving contacts, setting quiet hours, and managing Do Not Disturb schedules.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $5.75 M
  - Pre-Seed (May 2025): Led by PSL Ventures (9 investors)
  - Seed (Oct 2025): $3.5 M led by Data Tech Fund and PSL Ventures (8 investors)
- **Notable Investors**: PSL Ventures, Data Tech Fund, Greylock (participated in a prior round)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Used by families in 30+ U.S. states with zero paid marketing (organic word-of-mouth)
  - Headcount grew from ~2 to 27 employees (+1,167% YoY)
  - Received 40 early prototypes hand-installed in one Seattle neighborhood; demand spread rapidly

## Competitive Advantages
- **True screen-free experience**: No apps, no texts, no browser – pure voice calling. Eliminates the risks of smartphones (social media, addictive apps, stranger danger).
- **Parental control without complexity**: Parents manage everything via a simple app; kids get independence without internet access.
- **Wi-Fi landline model**: Works with existing home Wi-Fi, no need for a cellular plan or smartphone.
- **Emergency calling**: 911 always available, even without a subscription.
- **Free Can2Can network**: Encourages peer-to-peer calling among friends who also have Tin Cans.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling production of the fully custom hardware (designed from the ground up)
- Expanding the user base beyond the initial 30 states through word-of-mouth and targeted marketing
- Building out the team (active job postings for engineering, design, marketing, and customer experience)
- Maintaining a mission-driven culture focused on intentional technology for kids

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven startup focused on real human connection and “keeping childhood full of imagination, not notifications.” Team is passionate about intentional tech.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/in-office options available. HQ is in Seattle with an in-office workspace; some roles are remote or hybrid.
- **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage company (27 employees) with rapid growth – employees can have outsized impact.
- **Perks**: Not detailed publicly, but typical startup perks (equity, flexible schedule) likely. The company emphasizes a “no surprises” approach to its product.
- **Team composition**: Small, cross-functional team with specialists in customer service, design, engineering, and operations.

## Sources
1. [tincan.kids](https://tincan.kids/)
2. [tincan.kids - About page](https://tincan.kids/pages/about-tin-can)
3. [Built In - Tin Can Careers](https://builtin.com/company/tin-can)
4. [LinkedIn - Tin Can](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tincankids)
5. [Jobs page - Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tin-can)

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