Performance Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL
Performance Manager jobs in Chicago are concentrated in the Loop, River North, and the Fulton Market district, across finance, healthcare, and technology sectors. Demand stays active year-round, with CDW, PERI, and Uber among the employers currently posting openings. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Performance Marketing Strategy Manager
Introduction to the Team
Expedia Group B2B connects partners across the travel industry to our leading technology, supply, and services—helping them deliver seamless travel experiences to their customers. From airlines and hotels to financial institutions and other travel platforms, we power smarter, faster, and more impactful travel solutions through the most connected marketplace in the world.
Make an Impact
The Performance Marketing Strategy Manager will support paid media strategy for Expedia Group’s B2B Supply Marketing business. This role connects business goals to channel planning, strengthens how the team operates , and supports better decisions across planning, performance reviews, budget recommendations, and agency management.
You will work across a complex paid media portfolio with channel and performance specialists, internal stakeholders, agencies, and external partners. Your judgment, cross-functional partnership, and ability to execute independently will help surface the right work, clarify priorities, and keep the portfolio moving against the most important business needs.
In This Role, You Will
Support cross-channel paid media planning by translating business goals into actionable priorities, recommendations, and next steps across SEM, paid social, and programmatic.
Partner with channel specialists, performance specialists, agencies, vendors, and teams including analytics, finance, creative, and product to support strategic priorities and day-to-day decision-making.
Establish and maintain a clear operating rhythm for prioritization, performance reviews, issue triage, escalation, accountability, and follow-through across the paid media portfolio.
Drive weekly performance readouts for leadership, translating channel inputs into a clear portfolio narrative that highlights actions, risks, recommendations, and unresolved measurement gaps.
Provide budget allocation recommendations and conduct regular budget check-ins to ensure pacing and investment decisions remain aligned to business goals.
Improve decision quality by distinguishing verified performance from directional signals, identifying channel mix and experimentation opportunities, and ensuring recommendations are grounded in business relevance and measurement quality.
Identify manual, slow, or ambiguous reporting, measurement, and planning workflows and help convert them into more durable, scalable processes.
What Success Looks Like
Paid media decisions are faster, clearer, and better grounded in evidence.
Channel and performance specialists have clear direction on priorities, ownership, and escalation paths.
Monthly budgets are managed and monitored with greater rigor across the portfolio.
Leadership receives clear weekly performance narratives, budget recommendations, and actionable opportunities.
Measurement limitations are surfaced early and handled deliberately.
Reporting, prioritization, and escalation cadences are consistent across the portfolio.
The function is less dependent on manual reconciliation and individual backstopping and is more resilient as a system.
Experience and Qualifications
You have significant experience in paid media, performance marketing, growth marketing, or a related strategy and operations role.
You have demonstrated success supporting cross-channel paid media planning across multiple publishers and performance objectives , including SEM, paid social, and programmatic.
You have strong judgment and can work independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
You have experience making budget allocation recommendations, participating in pacing discussions, and supporting performance tradeoff decisions across a paid media portfolio.
You can translate data into executive-ready weekly performance narratives, recommendations, and business cases.
You have experience working with agencies or external vendors and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
You have deep familiarity with performance measurement, attribution tradeoffs, reporting limitations, and diagnosing performance or process issues.
You have proven experience designing or improving operating models, cadences, workflows, or business processes in a marketing organization.
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues for senior audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in travel, B2B marketing, marketplace, ecommerce, or another high-scale digital acquisition business.
Familiarity with paid media and measurement tools and data environments, such as platform reporting, GA4, campaign management tools, and performance reporting systems.
Experience balancing strategic planning with day-to-day operational realities in a lean or capacity-constrained team environment.
Comfort balancing near-term performance demands with longer-term capability building.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life .
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation .
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/ .
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Performance Marketing Strategy Manager
Introduction to the Team
Expedia Group B2B connects partners across the travel industry to our leading technology, supply, and services—helping them deliver seamless travel experiences to their customers. From airlines and hotels to financial institutions and other travel platforms, we power smarter, faster, and more impactful travel solutions through the most connected marketplace in the world.
Make an Impact
The Performance Marketing Strategy Manager will support paid media strategy for Expedia Group’s B2B Supply Marketing business. This role connects business goals to channel planning, strengthens how the team operates , and supports better decisions across planning, performance reviews, budget recommendations, and agency management.
You will work across a complex paid media portfolio with channel and performance specialists, internal stakeholders, agencies, and external partners. Your judgment, cross-functional partnership, and ability to execute independently will help surface the right work, clarify priorities, and keep the portfolio moving against the most important business needs.
In This Role, You Will
Support cross-channel paid media planning by translating business goals into actionable priorities, recommendations, and next steps across SEM, paid social, and programmatic.
Partner with channel specialists, performance specialists, agencies, vendors, and teams including analytics, finance, creative, and product to support strategic priorities and day-to-day decision-making.
Establish and maintain a clear operating rhythm for prioritization, performance reviews, issue triage, escalation, accountability, and follow-through across the paid media portfolio.
Drive weekly performance readouts for leadership, translating channel inputs into a clear portfolio narrative that highlights actions, risks, recommendations, and unresolved measurement gaps.
Provide budget allocation recommendations and conduct regular budget check-ins to ensure pacing and investment decisions remain aligned to business goals.
Improve decision quality by distinguishing verified performance from directional signals, identifying channel mix and experimentation opportunities, and ensuring recommendations are grounded in business relevance and measurement quality.
Identify manual, slow, or ambiguous reporting, measurement, and planning workflows and help convert them into more durable, scalable processes.
What Success Looks Like
Paid media decisions are faster, clearer, and better grounded in evidence.
Channel and performance specialists have clear direction on priorities, ownership, and escalation paths.
Monthly budgets are managed and monitored with greater rigor across the portfolio.
Leadership receives clear weekly performance narratives, budget recommendations, and actionable opportunities.
Measurement limitations are surfaced early and handled deliberately.
Reporting, prioritization, and escalation cadences are consistent across the portfolio.
The function is less dependent on manual reconciliation and individual backstopping and is more resilient as a system.
Experience and Qualifications
You have significant experience in paid media, performance marketing, growth marketing, or a related strategy and operations role.
You have demonstrated success supporting cross-channel paid media planning across multiple publishers and performance objectives , including SEM, paid social, and programmatic.
You have strong judgment and can work independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
You have experience making budget allocation recommendations, participating in pacing discussions, and supporting performance tradeoff decisions across a paid media portfolio.
You can translate data into executive-ready weekly performance narratives, recommendations, and business cases.
You have experience working with agencies or external vendors and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
You have deep familiarity with performance measurement, attribution tradeoffs, reporting limitations, and diagnosing performance or process issues.
You have proven experience designing or improving operating models, cadences, workflows, or business processes in a marketing organization.
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues for senior audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in travel, B2B marketing, marketplace, ecommerce, or another high-scale digital acquisition business.
Familiarity with paid media and measurement tools and data environments, such as platform reporting, GA4, campaign management tools, and performance reporting systems.
Experience balancing strategic planning with day-to-day operational realities in a lean or capacity-constrained team environment.
Comfort balancing near-term performance demands with longer-term capability building.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life .
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation .
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/ .
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.See All 29 Performance Manager Jobs in Chicago
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- Food & Beverage
- Investment & Asset Management
Performance Manager Jobs in Chicago: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a performance manager job in Chicago?
Focus your search on the Loop and West Loop, where financial services firms, consulting houses, and large healthcare systems do most of their performance management hiring. Candidates with experience in KPI framework design, vendor performance oversight, or cross-functional program delivery have a clear edge here. Familiarity with Chicago-based industries like commodities trading, insurance, and hospital network operations makes your application stand out against national competition.
Which companies hire performance managers in Chicago?
Companies currently hiring performance managers in Chicago include CDW, PERI, and Uber, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Chicago's employer mix skews toward large financial institutions, major hospital networks, and enterprise technology firms, all of which maintain dedicated performance management functions.
Are there remote performance manager jobs in Chicago?
Yes, though availability depends on the role type. Analytical and reporting-focused performance manager positions tend to be more remote-friendly, while roles tied to operational oversight or on-site vendor management are usually in-person. About 40% of performance manager openings tied to Chicago are remote or hybrid as of August 2026. Strategy and data-heavy performance roles at Chicago tech and finance firms offer the most flexible arrangements.
How can I get a performance manager job in Chicago with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Chicago is through analyst or coordinator roles at large healthcare systems, insurance carriers, or financial services firms in the Loop, where performance management teams regularly promote from within. Roles like operations analyst, reporting coordinator, or business analyst function as common stepping stones. Building proficiency in tools like Tableau, Excel, and Power BI and targeting Chicago employers with formal rotational or associate programs improves your chances significantly.
Which industries hire the most performance managers in Chicago?
Chicago performance manager roles concentrate in Food & Beverage and Investment & Asset Management, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Chicago's role as a hub for financial trading, hospital network administration, and enterprise software drives consistent demand for professionals who can translate operational data into measurable outcomes.
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