Performance Marketing Manager (m/f/d)

This is the first role we are opening outside Austria, and we are opening it in Portugal. We are looking for a performance marketer with 2 to 5 years of experience who wants to work closely with clients and take real responsibility for their accounts, remotely, as a full member of a small Vienna-based team.

Scalista GmbH is a Vienna-based performance marketing agency, Google Premier Partner and Meta Business Partner. We plan, run and optimise paid campaigns on Google, Meta, Apple Ads, Microsoft Ads, TikTok and programmatic app networks, for websites and for mobile apps.

Most of our clients are in the gaming and iGaming sector (real-money and social casino), alongside clients in tourism, e-commerce and B2B. We work across Europe and internationally.

We are strongly client-oriented. Long-term relationships matter more to us than quick wins.

We are a small team with a very flat hierarchy and English as our working language. There is no account-manager layer between the client and the work: the person managing the campaigns is the person the client talks to.

• Set up, run and optimise paid campaigns across Google Ads (Search brand and generic, Performance Max, YouTube, App) and Meta, plus Apple Ads, Microsoft Ads, TikTok or programmatic networks such as Moloco and Liftoff depending on the account

• Own budgets, pacing and targets, and steer target CPA and target ROAS so campaigns are limited by the right lever

• Write the weekly and monthly client reports: what changed, how the KPIs developed, why, and what we do next

• Drive creative testing together with our team: hooks, formats and localisations, each batch with a clear hypothesis

• Keep the measurement foundation healthy: GA4, Google Tag Manager, consent setup, platform conversion tracking, and for apps the MMP configuration

• Communicate directly with your clients, with no layer in between, and always work in their interest: honest recommendations, clear reasoning, and the option you would pick if the budget were your own

• Represent Scalista towards our Google and Meta partner teams and other vendors

• Act as deputy on a colleague’s accounts so client work never stops when someone is away

• 2 to 5 years of hands-on experience managing paid campaigns on Google Ads and/or Meta, for web or mobile apps, agency side or in-house

• You are comfortable with numbers: you can read an account top-down, spot what actually moved the total, and explain it in plain language

• Working knowledge of GA4 and Google Tag Manager, or the curiosity and technical confidence to get there quickly

• Very good written and spoken English

• You live in Portugal and are legally entitled to work here. We have a preference for candidates in the Porto area or northern Portugal, but a strong candidate elsewhere in mainland Portugal is welcome to apply

• You are willing to travel to Vienna for a short visit roughly once per quarter, at our cost

• You work well remotely: you communicate proactively in writing, flag problems early, and do not need someone looking over your shoulder

• Honest, direct communication. We report weak numbers as clearly as strong ones, always with a diagnosis and a next step

• Comfortable working on accounts in the gaming and iGaming sector

• Hands-on knowledge of mobile app marketing: MMPs such as AppsFlyer or Adjust, SKAdNetwork, Apple Search Ads

• Gaming or iGaming background, including awareness of gambling certification and ad policy on Google and Meta

• Experience with structured creative testing and video performance ads

• Practical use of AI tools in the campaign, analysis or creative workflow

• Any additional language beyond English, or experience with DACH markets

• Real ownership and responsibility from day one

• Colleagues who act as sparring partners. Hard client questions get more than one brain on them

• The advantages of our Google Premier Partner and Meta Business Partner status: fast escalation paths, policy support, platform events and access to betas

• A structured onboarding manual and a team that takes knowledge transfer seriously

• Access to paid AI and marketing tools

• Room to grow into technical implementation, creative strategy or client leadership, depending on where your interest goes

• Fully remote work from Portugal, with flexible hours and a working overlap with Vienna, which is one hour ahead of Lisbon

• Four short trips to Vienna per year to work with the team in person, travel and accommodation covered by us

• The chance to shape how we work as a distributed team, since you will be the first person outside Austria

Q4 2026. Tell us your earliest possible start when you apply.

Gross monthly salary of EUR 2,000 to 2,500 over 14 payments, depending on your qualifications and experience, plus meal allowance and 22 days of annual leave.

Your employment contract will be with our Portuguese group company; you will work day to day as part of the Scalista team.

Send your CV to [email protected]. Instead of a long cover letter, tell us in a few lines about one account you improved: what the situation was, what you changed, and how you knew it worked.

We read every application ourselves and reply to all of them.