Performance Marketing Manager, Chainguard
$111-130k
Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!)
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Software supply chain security
Open for applications
Software supply chain security
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$111-130k
Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!)
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in performance marketing or digital acquisition with a track record of delivering measurable ROI
- Deep analytical chops; comfortable with data, experimentation, dashboards, and multi‑touch attribution
- Hands‑on expertise across major ads platforms (e.g., Google Ads, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube) and associated tooling
- Experience using intent data for targeting, segmentation, and budget optimization; proficient in A/B testing and conversion rate optimization
- Curiosity about and practical experience using AI to plan, launch, and optimize campaigns faster and smarter
- Excellent communication and storytelling—able to synthesize complex results for executives and collaborate cross‑functionally
- Bias for action: rapid experimentation, iteration, and an owner’s mindset in a fast‑moving, high‑growth environment
- If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a results‑driven, analytical, and creative Performance Marketing Manager to own paid acquisition and performance programs end to end
- You’ll test aggressively, optimize constantly, and scale what works across search, social, display, and third‑party sponsorships—driving measurable pipeline in a high‑velocity environment
- Chainguard delivers hardened, secure, and production‑ready builds of the open source software engineers rely on—so teams can build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk
- We’re the trusted source for open source. Chainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of the modern software stack—containers, language libraries, and VM images
- Develop, launch, and optimize performance campaigns across Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, and Display—owning channel strategy, execution, and iteration
- Leverage buyer‑intent and first/third‑party signals to sharpen targeting, improve conversion efficiency, and inform budget allocation
- Manage third‑party sponsorships end to end: evaluate opportunities, negotiate, brief, launch, and report—activating our ICP across high‑signal publications and communities
- Partner with Integrated Campaigns to plug paid channels into cross‑channel motions that build brand and drive qualified pipeline
- Build and run account‑based marketing (ABM) programs with regional marketing and Sales to engage and accelerate key accounts
- Analyze performance, attribution, and full‑funnel metrics to uncover insights, prioritize experiments, and guide growth decisions
- Design and run A/B tests across creative, copy, audiences, bidding, and landing pages; scale winners quickly and retire underperformers
- Collaborate with Content/Creative to produce on‑brand, high‑performing ad assets and landing experiences that convert
- Own forecasting and pacing; allocate budgets across channels and campaigns to maximize ROI while hitting growth targets
- Partner with Analytics to build dashboards and reporting that communicate performance, learnings, and next steps to stakeholders
- Identify new growth levers—channels, partnerships, formats, and ad tech—pilot thoughtfully, and scale what proves out
Our take
Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code.
In the wake of huge cyber attacks, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus. However, most of this has surrounded the scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself.
Built by former engineers who are aware of developer workloads, Chainguard is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems. The company has secured substantial funding, the latest of which will support more aggressive product and R&D spending as it looks to further boost sales.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$280m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2025
$356m
SERIES D
Total funding: $892m
Company benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
Company HQ
Everest, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Dan Lorenc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.
Kim Lewandowski
(CSO & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.
Matthew Moore
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.
Ville Aikas
(Distinguished Engineer & Co-founder)Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.
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