German-speaking Performance Marketing Lead

About the Position

We are looking for a German-speaking Performance Marketing Lead to join our Central Marketing Team at saas.group. This role is part of our dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 400 colleagues spanning 50+ countries. As a German-speaking Performance Marketing Lead, you will oversee paid acquisition strategies across our portfolio of 25+ B2B SaaS brands.

About saas.group

Think of us as the driving catalyst behind your favorite software success stories. saas.group, established in 2017, is on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential. With a fully remote team, we are truly global and rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 25 exciting brands under our umbrella. Feel free to explore our Candidate's Hub to get an insider's view, dive into our culture, gain valuable insights into our teams and how we work.

Profile Overview

At saas.group, paid acquisition across our portfolio runs through a small network of experienced PPC freelancers. We're looking for a German-speaking Performance Marketing Lead to oversee this: someone who owns the standards, strategy, and quality bar for paid across our portfolio, from accounts ranging from small to large monthly budgets. The role goes beyond people-management, with continued hands-on responsibilities.

Your Immediate Impact

In the first 3-6 months, you will:

• Take ownership of our most valuable paid accounts and demonstrably move performance, while keeping smaller-budget accounts efficient.
• Set a consistent standard across all brand accounts: how campaigns are structured, how conversions are tracked, how performance is reported, so there's a consistent quality bar across the whole portfolio.
• Take over the paid accounts of a newly acquired brand cleanly: audit, tracking check, and handover with no performance dip.

Responsibilities

• Own paid performance strategy and standards across the portfolio, and run the most valuable accounts hands-on yourself (Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, LinkedIn, and others), including ad copy and landing page testing.
• Lead and support our PPC freelancers: set targets, review accounts, approve budgets, run regular syncs, challenge the "why" behind decisions, and keep the rest of marketing in the loop.
• Advise brands directly on strategy and budget allocation, with the ability to push back, manage expectations, and tell a brand honestly when a channel or budget won't deliver.
• Take over newly acquired brands' paid setups and build the systems, documentation, and reporting that let performance scale across more brands and freelancers without losing the quality bar.
• Partner closely with our data analytics team on tracking, attribution, and the flow of CRM data back into the ad platforms, and support the M&A team on due diligence for paid-heavy acquisition targets.
• Regularly connect with the SEO Team Lead to remain aligned with campaigns and strategies.

What You Bring to the Table

• Several years owning paid budgets (think €1M+ a year) while staying genuinely hands-on: you can open an account, diagnose it, and run the full campaign yourself.
• Demonstrated B2B lead-gen experience on search: comfortable with low conversion volumes, long sales cycles, and optimizing for lead quality over click counts (B2B SaaS, B2B, or adjacent backgrounds such as gaming portfolios are welcome, as long as you can translate them to B2B).
• A track record across very different budget sizes, from a few thousand a month to six figures a month, making small budgets work through sharp targeting and prioritization rather than leaning on automated bidding.
• Deep Google Ads and Microsoft Ads expertise, strong LinkedIn Ads experience, and the curiosity to pick up new platforms as brands need them. You're also confident with the measurement stack behind paid: GA4, Google Tag Manager, offline conversion imports, and CRM integration. Experience with ChatGPT ads is a bonus.
• German at C1 or native: strong enough to write compelling German ad copy, alongside fluent English.
• Genuine AI fluency, and the drive to put it to work. You already use AI tools (like Claude) in your day-to-day, and you're the kind of person who looks for where they can sharpen paid performance, from research and analysis to campaign and reporting workflows.

What's in it for You

• Ultimate flexibility: We're 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
• Freedom and autonomy: We're a high-trust team, and you'll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way - with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
• Minimum bureaucracy: We don't like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
• Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
• Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning, and expertise with each other internally.
• Flexible time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.

We don't just simply offer you to "take a job with us" but rather to "join us on this journey" to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.

Sounds like something you're up for? Feel free to apply even if you don't check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient!

saas.group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're passionate about working with a team that values innovation, excellence, and fairness, we encourage you to apply.

We believe in fair and transparent pay. Salary ranges at saas.group are location-adjusted, targeting local market medians for a remote-first environment, and will be shared with our potential future employees in writing before your first interview - so you have everything you need to evaluate the opportunity.

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