This Digital Marketing Manager Sydney role is a standout opportunity for a performance-driven marketer ready to step into a high-growth SaaS environment.
Digital Marketing Manager | Growth, Performance & MarTech | SaaS
$160,000 + Super | Near Chatswood | 4 Days Office / 1 Day WFH
Important: this role requires a strong digital or performance marketing agency background. Our client is specifically looking for a candidate who has built their skills inside an agency, ideally across complex performance accounts, and is now ready to bring that experience client side. Please only apply if this matches your background.
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits them and sells itself," said Peter Drucker.
Ready to move beyond simply running campaigns and start building the digital growth machine behind them?
We're recruiting a Digital Marketing Manager for a fast growing Australian SaaS technology business based near Chatswood.
This is a senior digital role combining strategy, commercial thinking, performance marketing, customer lifecycle, data and MarTech.
You'll help determine where the business invests, how digital channels work together, how leads move through the funnel and how technology, data and experimentation can make marketing progressively smarter.
And yes, you'll still know your way around Google Ads.
The one non-negotiable
You must come from a digital or performance marketing agency background. You're likely an experienced Digital Marketing Manager, Performance Marketing Manager, Growth Marketing Manager or senior agency side digital leader who has managed complex performance accounts and is ready for greater ownership client side.
The opportunity
You'll take ownership of the broader digital marketing capability, working across acquisition, conversion, CRM, lifecycle marketing and measurement.
You'll also work closely with a hands on Digital Marketing Specialist, providing strategic direction while giving them room to execute, test and optimise.
This is not a role for someone who wants to sit three layers above the platforms. You need to understand the numbers, challenge performance and occasionally get your hands dirty.
What you'll own
Develop the digital acquisition and growth strategy
Define channel mix, audiences, campaign architecture and optimisation priorities
Drive performance across Google, Meta and emerging acquisition channels
Oversee digital media investment and improve CAC, CPL, conversion and marketing efficiency
Build a structured testing and experimentation roadmap
Improve landing pages, customer journeys and conversion pathways
Develop the strategy for CRM, lifecycle marketing, segmentation and personalisation
Connect acquisition activity more effectively with Sales and Customer teams
Build automated nurture, onboarding, retention and re-engagement programs
Strengthen attribution, tracking and marketing measurement
Develop dashboards that connect marketing activity to commercial outcomes
Improve data quality and audience management
Identify opportunities across AI, automation and marketing technology
Work with creative, content, product, sales and external partners to improve digital performance
The MarTech piece
This role goes well beyond paid media. We want someone who understands how modern marketing technology connects the entire customer journey.
Experience across: Google Ads, Meta, GA4, Google Tag Manager, CRM, Salesforce, Marketing Automation, Email, CRO, Analytics, Attribution, Dashboards, Audience Segmentation.
Strong experience with Salesforce, CRM architecture and marketing automation would be particularly attractive.
Who we're looking for
You'll Bring
Strong performance and digital acquisition experience, gained substantially in an agency environment
Strategic understanding of paid media, audience planning and channel selection
Commercial thinking and confidence working with meaningful marketing budgets
Strong analytics and measurement capability
Experience with CRM, lifecycle and marketing automation
Understanding of website optimisation and CRO
An experimentation mindset
Confidence working across Marketing, Sales, Product and Customer teams
Curiosity around AI and emerging MarTech
Why this role?
Because you're not inheriting a perfectly finished digital machine. You'll help build it.
The company is growing, the technology is established, and digital marketing has a significant role to play in its next phase. You'll have the opportunity to create better systems, better measurement and better customer journeys while still remaining close to performance.
Salary: $160,000 + Super
Location: Near Chatswood, Sydney
Hybrid: 4 days onsite, 1 day working from home
Employment: Full time permanent
Important
You must have full Australian working rights. Sponsorship is not available for this position.
If you can think strategically, understand the technology behind modern marketing and still enjoy asking "why did that campaign actually perform?", this one should be worth a conversation.
About This Digital Marketing Manager Sydney Role
As a Digital Marketing Manager Sydney based near Chatswood, you will own growth, performance and MarTech across the full funnel — paid search, paid social, SEO, CRO and marketing automation — with real budget ownership and direct influence on revenue. Few Digital Marketing Manager Sydney positions offer this level of autonomy inside a scaling SaaS business.
What we look for in a Digital Marketing Manager Sydney
The ideal Digital Marketing Manager Sydney candidate brings strong agency-built performance skills, hands-on MarTech capability and the commercial instinct to connect campaigns to pipeline. Big Wave Digital has placed digital marketing talent across Sydney for over a decade, and we will guide you through every stage of the process. If you have been waiting for the right Digital Marketing Manager Sydney move, this is it.
Apply now — this Digital Marketing Manager Sydney opportunity will move quickly.