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# Sr. Associate, Performance Marketing at Viral Nation Inc.

- **Company:** Viral Nation Inc.
- **Location:** Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/viralnation/jobs/5188688007

## 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 Sr. Associate brings the execution lens to an integrated Performance Marketing pod. Working closely with your Manager, you own campaign build, trafficking, daily optimization, pacing, and QA across performance marketing channels, with an emphasis on paid social, while building fluency in the overarching media plan and strategy so you can speak to both sides of the work.

What You'll Do Here:

- Launch, monitor, optimize, and report on media campaigns across paid social channels, with the potential to manage paid search and programmatic campaigns where clients require.
- Own daily optimization, budget pacing, and in-platform troubleshooting to keep campaigns on plan and on target.
- Build and traffic campaigns accurately, owning self-QA before every launch.
- Analyze performance data to refine tactics, and surface in-platform signals, risks, and opportunities to your Manager.
- Support media planning with actuals, reallocations, and audience execution against the strategic media plan.
- Run campaign experimentation across audiences, creative, and bidding to identify what drives performance.
- Evaluate creative and recommend adjustments aligned to platform best practices and client objectives.
- Join internal and external calls, speaking directly to tactical detail and in-platform campaign structure.
- Be a key contributor in performance platform calls, clearly articulating active and upcoming campaign plans and implementing platform provided recommendations where applicable.

What You Need To Have:

- 3+ years of media buying experience within paid social. Strong working knowledge of paid search; programmatic experience a strong asset.
- Strong command of the qualitative and quantitative aspects of paid media.
- Proficiency in the Google / Microsoft Suite and project management tools (monday.com, Asana, or ClickUp).
- Strong collaboration, communication, and organizational skills.
- A keen eye for creative content and current marketing trends.
- Working understanding of marketing analytics, QA, and optimization best practices.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled platform features and automation (Advantage+, Performance Max, smart bidding) is a plus.

This role has an annual salary range of $70,000 to $80,000.

This range reflects the full scope and progression of the role, from building capability to operating with sustained impact at a higher level. In addition to base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits and total rewards package designed to support our team as they grow with us.

Where an offer falls within this range is determined through the interview process. Candidates are benchmarked by the hiring team based on role scope, relevant experience, skill alignment, and expected impact, using consistent and objective criteria.

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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