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Connect With Us:

  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardgilbertauckland/

  • Company: www.numeroagency.co.nz


The Opportunity: Why numero® Will Change Your Career

We're not just another digital marketing agency. We're a Takapuna-based performance marketing agency managing $3.5M of adspend for 50ish clients - and we're aiming to grow to $10M annual revenue in the next few years.

Here's What Makes Us Different:

  • Work under industry veterans Richard Gilbert, Harry Kidby, Sanket Surwade and Irina Khomenko: Get coached by two of NZ’s most experienced performance marketing specialists

  • No outsourcing: 100% of production staff are based in NZ. 0 sub par deliverables

  • Hybrid - your place and sunny Takapuna: Never more than 1 day in a row in the office - best of both worlds

  • Grow with the agency: Is growth your aspiration? Good. Want to grow with the agency? We make the pathway to growth clear. 

Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It):

You'll own the results of your clients, directly impacting business customer satisfaction, profit and growth. This isn't about managing any old customer who will pay us - it's about scoping out the right type of strategy for the right fit clients, so that we massively impact both their business and ours.

The Role: Digital Performance Manager

Core Responsibilities:

1. Set up and Management of Meta, Google Ads and Analytics

  • Owning strategy and implementation

  • Optimising accounts to smash client KPI’s

  • Improve our technical expertise by always learning

  • Work with other discipline experts to achieve client results within retainer budgets

2. Pre-sale audits

  • Use your skills to provide data to sales to help get us new right fit clients

  • Manage internal and external stakeholders by providing realistic target KPI’s

  • Test new ai and platform features

  • Reporting outcomes vs expectations so account managers can translate results


3. Add to our Culture by Continually Learning (and Teaching)

  • Providing right fit recommendations for our clients

  • Provide training on new platform features to the wider team

  • Championing the onboarding and optimisation process

  • You’ll have a thirst for knowledge and growth


Who You Are: Non-Negotiables & Must-Haves

Deal-Makers (You Need All of These):

  • Agency Experience : 3 years in a like for like agency role with proof of excellent client results

  • Problem Solving: Hands-on mastery of Google and Meta Ads

  • Analytics and Tag Manager: Able to set up key events and conversions

  • Commercially Minded: Your thinking is tied to business outcomes, not busy work

  • Clear Communicator: Proven ability to explain complex optimisations simply

  • Mon to Fri: Available for 8:30am - 5:00pm


Deal-Breakers (Any of These = Not a Fit):

  • No agency experience

  • Unwilling to work as a part of a team

  • Looking for a role where you’re detached from the client outcomes

  • Never been responsible for Google and Meta Ads client results

You're Perfect If You:

  • Get fired up about the art performance marketing

  • Have an analytical and commercial mindset

  • Have stories about how your clients are booming

  • Can't stop talking about the latest platform updates

The Package: What's In It for You

Compensation:

  • Base, KS and Car Park: $85,000 - $110,000 NZD/year (based on experience)

The Perks That Matter:

  • 💻 Latest Macbook Air, $500 home office screen setup

  • ✈️ Remote work available with fortnightly office days if you live outside of Auckland (office based preferred)

  • 📚 Unlimited access for Google and Meta certificates

  • 🏖️ 12 public holidays, 4 weeks annual leave, 10 sick days

  • 🚀 Paid birthday off

  • Direct access to Sanket, Harry and Richard for mentorship


The Real Benefits:

  • Work on clients whose economics support marketing budgets that actually work

  • Skip the mass onboarding pressure - we only onboard select right fit clients

  • Your ideas ship in days, not weeks of middle management deliberation and idea theft

  • Join before we embark on our next growth phase and influence the journey

Our Values: The DNA of numero®


  • 1. 💲 Follow the Money: We connect marketing performance to business performance.

  • 2. 📈 Lead the Performance: We set the strategy, define the priorities and drive the work forward..

  • 3. 📢 Say What Moves the Business: We give straight advice, backed by data, experience and commercial understanding.

  • 4. ✅ Only Work Where We Can Help: We only take on work where we believe we can create meaningful value.

  • 5. 🪏Do What We Said We’d Do: Great strategy means nothing without consistent execution.

Include the number of the value that resonates most with you in your application.


The Process: Fast, Transparent, Respectful

We know your time is valuable. Here's exactly what to expect:

1. Apply with cover letter, c.v. + 3 min video

2. Culture Chat - 1hr conversation about fit and values

3. Paid Assessment - we give you an account to audit ($100 for your time)

4. Deep Dive with Sanket Surwade + Richard Gilbert - Technical discussion and Q&A

5. Richard Gilbert review + reference check

6. Offer within 3 days of final interview

Every candidate gets a response. No ghosting.

Ready? Here's How to Stand Out:

Apply Here: [email protected]

Include:

  • Your resume/LinkedIn

  • A three minute video covering: your digital marketing background, who you are and why you’re going to smash it

  • Your biggest client win metrics recently and what worked

  • Why numero® specifically?

  • The value you mentioned above that resonates most

  • Optional but impressive: specific enterprise or mid market business you’ve successfully recently worked on

  • Subject Line: Digital Performance Manager- [Your Name] - [Something memorable]


PS - A Personal Note from Richard Gilbert, Founder / CEO

At numero®, performance marketing is the lifeblood of the business.  No role is more revered than the hero performance manager. If you’re an energetic, hungry, thirsty for success optimiser, then get on this now - we’re waiting to welcome you home. We’ve been there, done that, got the tshirt and I can safely say that I’d do it all again, and will do, just this time with you. Get in touch with us today to take your digital marketing career to the next level. If your agency throws you bad fit clients and is in a disorganised state, then leave that behind, and come and get ahead with numero®.

PPS: Still reading? Mention [halloween] in your application for bonus points.

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