Paid Media Manager
About The Position
Smart, Savvy + Associates is partnering with a fast-growing digital marketing agency in its search for a Paid Media Manager. This is a hands-on opportunity for someone who spends most of their day inside Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads, building campaigns, optimizing performance, troubleshooting attribution, and making data-driven decisions that directly impact business results. Our client works with some of the world's most recognized entertainment, media, and technology brands, delivering sophisticated paid media strategies backed by deep technical expertise. As the business continues to grow, they're looking for another experienced performance marketer to join their highly specialized team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on performance marketing experience managing campaigns directly within Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads
- Deep technical knowledge of campaign optimization, audience strategy, bidding, attribution, and conversion tracking
- Experience with GA4, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, Conversions API (CAPI), and related measurement tools
- Proven experience managing significant paid media budgets directly, not simply overseeing agency partners
- Strong analytical skills and confidence interpreting campaign data to drive performance
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to discuss campaign performance with clients
- A proactive, curious mindset and genuine passion for performance marketing
Nice To Haves
- Agency experience managing multiple client accounts
- Experience working with enterprise or global brands
- Entrepreneurial experience or previous consulting work
Responsibilities
- Own campaign performance
- Build, launch, manage, and optimize paid media campaigns across Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads
- Monitor campaign performance daily, making adjustments to budgets, bidding strategies, audiences, and creative to improve results
- Analyze campaign performance and identify opportunities to improve CPA, ROAS, conversion rates, and traffic quality
- Manage meaningful monthly advertising budgets directly within the platforms
- Solve technical performance challenges
- Diagnose and resolve attribution and conversion tracking issues
- Work with GA4, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, Conversions API (CAPI), and related tracking technologies
- Ensure accurate reporting and campaign measurement across platforms
- Test, learn, and improve
- Plan and execute creative testing strategies, particularly within Meta
- Continuously test audiences, messaging, placements, and bidding strategies
- Stay current on platform updates, privacy changes, and evolving best practices
- Contribute ideas that improve campaign performance across client accounts
- Partner with clients and the internal team
- Collaborate with strategists and account teams to deliver exceptional client results
- Participate in client conversations and confidently explain campaign performance and recommendations
- Share knowledge and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing team environment
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus opportunities
- Flexible vacation policy
- Opportunity to join as either an employee or independent contractor
- Clear growth opportunities as the team continues to expand
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
