Digital Media Buyer

Kearney, MO (Remote)

$65K/yr – $85K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own day-to-day paid media execution across brands, balancing rapid testing with budget discipline to unlock scalable direct-response results.

  • Channel ownership: run and optimize Meta and Google Ads campaigns with ongoing creative tests and data-driven reallocation.
  • Measurement & reporting: maintain dashboards and hygiene to reveal what actually drives performance and why.
  • Insights cadence: surface weekly learnings on what scales, what to cut, and what to test next for audience and messaging.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Launch new campaigns, ad sets, and ad variants across our brands on a daily cadence
  • Run structured creative tests (hook, angle, format, audience) and document what wins
  • Monitor pacing, CPA, ROAS, frequency, and funnel-stage performance throughout the day and reallocate budget without waiting to be asked
  • Partner with the Marketing Director and creative team to brief new ads, flag creative fatigue, and request iterations before performance slips
  • Maintain naming conventions, tracking parameters, and account hygiene so reporting stays trustworthy
  • Maintain dashboards (Looker Studio, Sheets, internal reporting tools) that show what is working and why
  • Surface insights weekly: what scaled, what got cut, what we are testing next, and what the numbers are telling us about audience and messaging

Requirements

  • 1+ years buying paid media at scale, ideally for direct-response, subscription, or lead-gen businesses, Preferred 3+ years
  • Experience accounts spending at least $10-20k consistently per month
  • Deep hands-on experience in Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads (Search, Performance Max, YouTube)
  • Awareness of at least one native platform (Taboola, Outbrain, Revcontent, MGID)
  • Strong analytical foundation: you can pivot a dataset in Sheets, read a cohort report, and explain what changed without hand-waving
  • Design literacy: you can tell good creative from bad, write a clear creative brief, and give specific feedback to designers and copywriters
  • Working knowledge of pixel implementation, UTM hygiene, conversion APIs, and attribution gotchas
  • Self-directed work style. You do not need a Slack ping to know that CPA spiked at 2pm
  • Must be able to pass a background check

Preferred

  • Experience in financial publishing, trading education, newsletters, info products, or other regulated direct-response categories
  • Familiarity with HubSpot, Klaviyo, or comparable marketing automation
  • Exposure to landing page testing (Unbounce, Instapage) and basic CRO instincts
  • Comfort with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude) for creative ideation and rapid iteration
  • Prior experience with compliance-sensitive copy in finance, supplements, or similar verticals