Senior Media Buyer

Quintessa Marketing

2d•$8,000 - $14,000•Remote

About The Position

This role is for an elite Senior Media Buyer based in the U.S. who is actively managing 7-figure monthly ad spend on Meta and/or Google. The company operates at a serious scale, working with 7-figure monthly advertising budgets across multiple platforms, states, and markets, supported by a creative operation that can produce and test a high volume of ads. The ideal candidate is obsessed with performance, seeks to make significant improvements rather than just maintain existing strategies, and wants to operate at a scale where small improvements have a massive impact. This is not a traditional media buyer role; it requires taking real ownership over performance, identifying scaling and budget reallocation opportunities, understanding underperforming markets, and driving growth through strategic decision-making and execution.

Requirements

Based in the United States.
Actively managing 7-figure monthly ad spend on Meta and/or Google.
Genuinely elite at media buying.
Obsessed with performance.
Experience managing campaigns across Meta and Google, including YouTube, Search, and Performance Max.
Ability to take real ownership over performance.
Ability to quickly determine where to spend more/less, identify emerging opportunities, diagnose underperforming states, and identify winning ads/creative.
Understanding of scaling opportunities, budget reallocation, performance inefficiencies, and testing gaps.
Understanding of how media buying and creative strategy are interconnected.
Knowledge of best-performing ads, angles, and concepts.
Ability to translate performance data into actionable creative requests.
Ability to analyze underperforming markets and identify root causes.
Problem-solving skills, not just reporting.
Experience with operational aspects of running advertising at scale, including spend planning, pacing, budget allocation, campaign/creative launches, reporting, testing frameworks, and account organization.
Willingness to monitor campaigns over weekends and make critical changes outside normal business hours when necessary.
Proactive in identifying and implementing new strategies and testing methodologies.
Ability to communicate quickly and make decisions.
Obsessed with finding incremental improvements.
Curiosity about performance data.
Annoyance with obvious scaling opportunities left untouched.
Constant drive to improve craft.
Willingness to accept responsibility and accountability.
Highly experienced with Meta and/or Google.
Ability to look at large amounts of performance data and quickly identify what matters.
Ability to spot potential winning ads early and know how to expand them.
Understanding of budget allocation at scale.
Ability to think beyond individual campaigns and understand performance across platforms, markets, and creatives.
Understanding of creative diversity and its impact on performance.
Comfortable making decisions with imperfect information.
Extremely analytical without becoming slow.
Proactive rather than reactive.
Brings solutions, not just problems.
Constantly brings new ideas and tests to the table.
Competitive with oneself and desires to improve weekly.
Wants decisions to matter.
Wants exposure to massive budgets, an elite creative operation, and real decision-making authority.
Wants income and responsibility to scale with impact.
Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

Experience with YouTube, Search, and Performance Max campaigns.

Responsibilities

Manage and optimize high-spend campaigns across Meta and Google (YouTube, Search, Performance Max).
Continuously identify scaling opportunities, budget reallocation opportunities, performance inefficiencies, underperforming markets, and testing gaps across platforms and states.
Understand where advertising money is being spent, what it's producing, and where the next dollar should be allocated.
Collaborate with other media buyers and leadership on cross-platform and state-level budget strategy to achieve volume and profitability goals.
Bridge the gap between performance data and the creative team, ensuring the creative team knows what's working, what's gaining traction, what's fatigued, and what is needed.
Analyze underperforming markets to identify root causes (creative, campaign structure, budget, etc.) and develop/execute plans for improvement.
Own the operational side of running advertising at scale, including spend planning, pacing, budget allocation, campaign and creative launches, reporting, performance tracking, testing frameworks, and account organization.
Monitor campaigns, including over weekends when necessary, to ensure performance, correct spend behavior, and catch major issues quickly.
Make critical changes outside normal business hours when directed by leadership.
Drive innovation by staying updated on elite advertiser strategies, new platform strategies, creative trends, campaign structures, platforms, tools, and testing methodologies.
Bring new ideas, challenge assumptions, run tests, learn from them, and iterate.
Communicate quickly and make decisions.
Constantly seek incremental improvements to drive more volume at a lower cost.