VP, Performance Marketing

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.

The VP, Performance Marketing will build and scale CLEAR’s customer acquisition and retention strategy for our business, owning performance across paid media, search and emerging discovery, web, CRM and lifecycle, and strategic partnerships. As AI reshapes how travelers discover, evaluate, and purchase products, you’ll define the next generation of CLEAR’s performance marketing playbook – reaching travelers long before they arrive at the airport and turning them into long-term Members.

• Own CLEAR’s performance marketing strategy and investment portfolio across paid media, search, web, CRM and lifecycle, and emerging channels – allocating resources based on incrementality, customer economics, and measurable business impact.
• Build the next generation of traveler discovery for CLEAR across traditional search, AI assistants, communities, travel media, and emerging platforms; establish how we measure and grow CLEAR’s visibility, consideration, and recommendation as consumer behavior evolves.
• Own the Member lifecycle from acquisition through renewal and winback, building personalized journeys, offers, and experiences that increase engagement, retention, and adoption of CLEAR’s growing portfolio of travel products and services.
• Grow CLEAR’s strategic travel partnerships, including credit card, airline, and travel partners, while developing new acquisition opportunities across travel media networks and other first‑party ecosystems that reach consumers throughout their journey.
• Build a rigorous performance and experimentation engine across the function, owning CAC, LTV, payback, incrementality, and portfolio ROI while using AI, first‑party data, creative testing, and emerging measurement approaches to continuously improve performance.

• Growth in new Member bookings through digital and partner channels.
• Improvement in portfolio ROI, CAC, LTV, retention, and payback period.
• Incremental Member and revenue growth from new and expansion products.
• Growth in CLEAR’s visibility, consideration, and recommendation across traditional and AI-driven discovery.

• 10+ years of growth or performance marketing experience, including ownership of acquisition and retention within a scaled subscription, membership, or consumer business, with 3+ years leading and developing high‑performing teams.
• Deep analytical fluency and command of growth economics—you’ve built and used LTV:
  
  CAC models, designed incrementality experiments and holdouts, and can work directly with SQL and business intelligence tools to make investment decisions.
• Hands‑on expertise across the modern growth stack, including paid media platforms, CRM and lifecycle tools, CDPs, experimentation, and measurement; you can move seamlessly between setting strategy and getting into the details required to execute it.
• A strong point of view on how AI is changing consumer discovery and marketing, with demonstrated experience applying emerging technology to improve marketing performance, creative development, audience strategy, measurement, or customer engagement.
• A builder and owner who thrives in lean, fast‑moving environments—you develop exceptional talent, move quick from insight to action, and are comfortable personally doing the work when that is what it takes to deliver the…