Summary of the Growth Marketing Lead, Performance job at Garage

About us

Our vision is to become the marketplace for everything expensive, specialized, and difficult to move. We’re building the infrastructure that powers the procurement and disposition of assets across America’s essential industries, automating everything from discovery and payments to freight, warranty, and financing. Today, Garage operates in cities and towns across all 50 states and has surpassed $100M+ in annualized transaction volume on the platform.

Our mission is to save local governments and essential services businesses time and money. We started with fire departments two years ago and have since expanded into EMS and heavy-duty, launching new verticals while growing revenue >10x last year.

If you move fast, hold a high bar, and want meaningful ownership in building a category-defining company, Garage is the place to do it.

About the role

We're looking for a Growth Marketing Lead, Performance to own paid acquisition and drive broader growth in the business. As a member of a lean and hands-on team, you'll manage our entire paid portfolio across paid social, search, and emerging channels, and work closely with the Head of Marketing to continue building and scaling Garage’s growth machine.

The ideal candidate is someone who balances analytical rigor with the understanding that the biggest growth drivers happen outside the ad account.

• Own Garage’s paid acquisition strategy and execution across paid social, paid search, and emerging channels, with accountability for pipeline, revenue growth, and efficiency.

• Scale acquisition efficiently by balancing growth, CAC, and overall marketplace health. Understand what changes at scale and make disciplined decisions around where to invest.

• Test and learn, constantly. You will develop hypotheses, test, and iterate fast. You’ll orchestrate landing page and conversion rate tests, analyze creative performance, and think creatively about new ways to acquire customers efficiently.

• Measure rigorously, act intuitively. You read between the lines and see the bigger picture in the numbers. You understand incrementality, multi-touch attribution, and test design, yet are comfortable navigating when data is incomplete or ambiguous.

• Work cross-functionally to identify and unlock growth opportunities beyond paid acquisition, partnering closely with Sales, Product, Operations, and Marketing.

What we’re looking for

• You love the energy of a high-growth environment where every day looks a little different

• You like to go deep on performance marketing but can think and work like a generalist

• You have good judgment, high integrity, and a no-task-too-small mindset

Required

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university

• 4+ years owning meaningful paid acquisition budgets in a high-growth startup or technology company

• Demonstrated success scaling paid social and search programs while maintaining efficiency

• Are T-Shaped: deep and hands-on in paid, and genuinely versatile across the growth mix — you've owned or can credibly own adjacent levers (CRO, partnerships, web experiments)

• Are rigorous about measurement and can tell real incremental growth from vanity metrics

• Have strong creative instincts and can direct high-velocity creative testing by briefing a creative team well

• Thrive as a player-coach on a small team — in the accounts yourself, leading a teammate, holding vendors accountable, etc.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling marketplace businesses

• Have built and scaled accounts from scratch

Our Values

• Take Big Swings. We are here to transform an overlooked industry—not make small improvements around the edges. We set ambitious goals, take calculated risks, and push through setbacks. We never trade lasting impact for short-term comfort.

• Customers Come First. Our customers operate in an industry burdened by slow, expensive, and outdated processes. We attack the problems that cost them the most and measure our success by the time and money we give back to them.

• Play For the Front of the Jersey. We put the mission ahead of ourselves. We challenge each other directly, support each other relentlessly, and step up whenever the team needs us. We win together, and we have fun doing it.

• All Gas, No Ego. Building something that matters takes relentless effort. We move fast, take ownership, and see hard problems through. When we fall short, we own it, learn quickly, and come back stronger.

Why Join Garage?

• Do work that matters. Our platform helps people buy the assets that local communities rely on to keep their communities safe, clean, and operating every day.

• Help shape the company. Join as one of our first 40 employees and work directly alongside the founders.

• Make an outsized impact. You’ll join a talent-dense, high-performance team where every person moves the company forward.

• Build from a strong foundation. We’ve raised $18M, including a $13.5M Series A, from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options

• 100% medical, dental and vision insurance coverage

• Unlimited PTO (in addition to company observed holidays)

• Daily lunch & dinner (for employees based in NYC)

• $100/month wellness stipend

• 401(k) w/ employer match

• Pre-tax commuter benefits

• Annual team offsite

• Relocation assistance

We realize applying for jobs can feel daunting at times. We don’t expect you to check all the qualification boxes and encourage you to apply if you have experience in some of the areas.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal-opportunity employer, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where you can be you. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, natural origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected class.