Senior Media Buyer

Mood

128d

About The Position

Ready to take the reins of one of the fastest-scaling DTC brands in the country? Mood is looking for a Senior Media Buyer, Paid Growth Lead to architect and operate our next phase of digital growth. This is not a passive management role. It is a hands-on operator seat where you will control tens of millions in annual spend, in-house critical channels, direct creative direction, and shape the systems that drive a nine-figure brand. You will report directly to the CEO and build a world-class growth engine that sets the standard for performance marketing in restricted categories.

Requirements

• Proven performance at scale: $100M+ lifetime managed, with $10M+ in a single brand or account
• Multi-channel operator: Meta and Google both strong, not just one or the other
• Restricted category experience: DTC ecommerce required, with supplements, alcohol, finance, CBD, or telehealth a strong plus
• Hands-on creative operator who can brief, select, and iterate winning creative
• CRO fluency: you have run page iterations that moved CVR, not just theory
• Attribution experience with modern stacks such as TripleWhale, GA4, Mixpanel, and MMMs
• Leadership: able to coach junior buyers while staying in-platform

Nice To Haves

• Track record of scaling from around $50K/day to $150K+/day spend, not just inheriting high budgets
• Built out UGC and creator systems: sourcing, briefing, feedback loops
• DSP and offline testing experience
• Previous wins in hemp, supplements, or telehealth

Responsibilities

• Own the Meta ecosystem end to end: buying, daily optimization, creative direction, account hygiene
• Command Google/YouTube, building a strong second engine beside Meta
• Extend reach into podcasts and AppLovin with structured, test-and-scale frameworks
• Build resilient account structures, escalation playbooks, and fast recovery systems for bans and disapprovals
• Establish dashboards, pacing, and incrementality reads that make business impact clear
• Begin in-housing everything currently outsourced to agencies, and assess what (if anything) should remain external
• Scale profitably and intelligently, focusing on acquiring valuable, high-LTV customers rather than chasing lowest CAC
• Work with the data team to shape offers, pricing, subscription plays, and retention-driven acquisition
• Take ownership of driving business outcomes, not just channel metrics
• Diversify into at least two new channels with quick validate or kill loops
• Ideate and test next-gen landing pages with CRO frameworks, cold-traffic funnels, and A/B rigor

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior