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Chief Placeholder Officer

  • London
  • Full Time (Permanent)
  • Hybrid
  • Placeholder team
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About this role

Suspense thrives on uncertainty, a calculated pause that draws in the observer. In this pause, placeholders emerge as valuable cues. Their very presence suggests that what is yet unseen could hold the answers, a revelation or a solution. When used thoughtfully, a placeholder can tease and compel, engaging the imagination.

Responsibilities

In websites, a loading spinner is no different than the ellipsis of a suspenseful plot twist; it tells the viewer that what is coming is worth waiting for. Key benefits of effective placeholders include:

  • Maintaining engagement: By signaling more to come, placeholders prevent user drop-off.
  • Setting expectations: Clear, well-placed placeholders hint at what content is coming next, adding structure.
  • Building suspense: The anticipation of more content holds attention, just as in storytelling.

Placeholder content, however, must tread a careful line. Too sparse, and it risks undermining its own suspense; too dense, and it overwhelms with unnecessary clutter. The balance lies in leaving just enough room for the mind to wander and fill the gaps.

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Senior Growth Manager

  • London
  • Full Time (Permanent)
  • Hybrid
  • UK Growth (Other)
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We’re entering a once-in-a-company moment: a major step-change in our D2C marketing investment, a full rebrand of the company and product under the Zable brand, and a marketing function being built out at pace. This is one of the most exciting marketing builds in UK fintech right now, with the financial strength, customer base, and product depth to back it up.

As our Senior Growth Manager (Performance Marketing) for the US and Mexico, you'll be the operational engine behind our growth in two new markets. Reporting to the Head of Growth, you'll own the tactical campaign management of our digital acquisition across the US and MX - standing up channels from scratch, finding what works, and scaling the winners. You'll manage significant budgets on Meta, TikTok and Google Ads, identify and iterate on winning creative concepts, and optimise conversion funnels for two very different markets.

You'll be part of a lean, high-performing team of operators. At Lendable, individual contributors wear many hats. We ask ourselves: what's the most impactful thing I can achieve this week? And then own that thing end to end. This role combines digital strategy with hands-on performance marketing execution - perfect for someone who's a deep specialist in one or more digital channels, with the breadth and appetite to learn fast and build in unfamiliar territory.

We're looking for someone who takes ownership, spots opportunities others miss, and gets genuinely excited about turning creative concepts into scaled winners - in markets where there's no existing playbook to lean on. You'll work with sophisticated attribution models, systematic creative testing frameworks and modern growth methodologies.

What we're looking for

Essential:

  • 2–4 years in performance marketing with a strong creative tilt, preferably D2C, challenger brands and/or fintech

  • Deep hands-on Meta, Google Ads and TikTok campaign management experience, managing multi-million annual budgets

  • A strong understanding of effective hooks, messaging and creative formats for social media

  • Familiarity with attribution modelling and incrementality testing concepts

  • A strong analytical mindset; SQL proficiency preferred

  • Comfortable creating and working with AI tools to enhance productivity and analysis

  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building in new audiences and markets without an established playbook

Desirable:

  • Experience launching or scaling acquisition in the US and/or Mexican markets

  • Spanish language skills valued but not essential

  • Experience standing up a digital channel or market from scratch

  • Experience in financial services or other regulated consumer categories

You're a good fit if you're:

  • An owner: you see digital marketing opportunities and execute them without detailed instructions

  • Creative and analytical: you balance intuition with data-driven decision making

  • Detail-oriented: you catch performance patterns others miss and build robust testing processes

  • Energised by greenfield: you'd rather build the engine in a new market than take the reigns from someone else

  • Growth-minded: you're here to learn, improve and take on bigger challenges

What you'll be doing

Channel Strategy & Scaling:

  • Own the D2C acquisition strategy for the US and Mexico across paid social and search, driving volume and efficiency against ambitious incremental CAC targets

  • Lead the launch and scale of new high-potential channels while ensuring Meta, Google and TikTok maintain a best-in-class foundation from day one

  • Establish what works in two distinct markets and build the repeatable playbook to scale it

Creative Engine:

  • Drive the performant creative engine: translate customer insights and winning patterns to inform clear, data-informed briefs for our external creator network, ensuring high-performing video content is produced at speed

  • Systematically analyse creative output to build and refine our hook and concept library, providing actionable feedback to the in-house creators

  • Adapt messaging and creative to the cultural and linguistic nuances of the US and Mexican audiences

Optimisation & Measurement:

  • Execute daily and weekly optimisations across paid channels, leveraging internal attribution models to inform bidding and budget allocation decisions

  • Maintain and audit the conversion tracking setup to ensure accurate, high-quality signal engineering for ad platform algorithms

  • Actively triangulate results from multiple attribution sources (e.g. MMM, internal models, incrementality tests) to drive as much impact as possible

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About Lendable

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Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money.

  • Founded in 2014

  • Profitable since 2017

  • Unicorn in 2021

  • Backed by Balderton, Goldman Sachs and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

  • Loved by customers & employees with top reviews on Glassdoor and Trustpilot

So far, we’ve rebuilt the big three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do. We’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Life at Lendable

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  • The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies

  • Best-in-class compensation, including equity

  • You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas

  • Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday

  • We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance

  • We're an equal opportunity employer and are keen to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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