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type: Comparison
title: VP of Marketing vs Paid Acquisition Manager
roleA: vp-marketing
roleB: paid-acquisition-manager
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# VP of Marketing vs Paid Acquisition Manager

A side-by-side of the two roles based on live data from Growth.Talent.

| | VP of Marketing | Paid Acquisition Manager |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Open jobs | 5 | 141 |
| Median salary midpoint | $215K | $103K |
| Anchor mid range | $200K-$280K | $95K-$140K |
| Anchor senior range | $240K-$380K | $130K-$200K |
| Primary category | growth-marketing | performance-marketing |
| Remote-friendly | 0/5 | 11/141 |

## VP of Marketing

VP of Marketing is the most common senior marketing title at Series B-C SaaS companies in the US. The role owns brand, demand gen, product marketing, and ABM. Below the CMO at large companies; above the CMO functionally at smaller ones. Best-fit candidates have a track record of taking marketing from $5M to $50M in pipeline, hiring 5-10 marketers, and partnering with sales on revenue ownership. Increasingly the role overlaps with VP of Growth, the line gets blurry below 200 employees.

## Paid Acquisition Manager

Paid Acquisition is the channel that scales fastest and breaks fastest. The role owns Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and increasingly programmatic, running budgets from $50K to $5M monthly. Best-fit candidates can talk LTV/CAC like a CFO and creative-testing like an art director. Most have a primary platform (Meta or Google) plus a secondary they've gotten profitable. The job has gotten harder since iOS 14, anyone claiming Meta is easy hasn't run paid since 2021. The interesting work right now is in creative testing volume, signal optimization, and incrementality.

## Browse live jobs

- [/role/vp-marketing](https://www.growthtalent.org/role/vp-marketing)
- [/role/paid-acquisition-manager](https://www.growthtalent.org/role/paid-acquisition-manager)

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