Digital Media Buyer

Kearney, MO (Remote)

$65K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the paid media trading desk for direct response and subscription growth by launching daily campaigns, running structured creative tests, and keeping budgets responsive in real time.

  • Campaign & creative ownership: daily launches across brands with tests that reveal wins and guide iterations.
  • Measurement discipline: maintain dashboards and surface weekly insights on what scales and why.
  • Quality control & governance: hygiene, tracking, and naming conventions to ensure trustworthy reporting.

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

Benefits

  • Medical Coverage with two plans: 1) Co-Pay 2) HSA – employer-contributed premiums
  • Dental Coverage
  • Vision Coverage
  • Basic Life – employer paid premiums
  • Supplemental Life - with a non-medical maximum of $100,000 for new hires
  • Short-Term Disability - employer paid premiums
  • Long-Term Disability - employer paid premiums
  • Employee Assistance Program - employer paid premiums
  • AFLAC
  • Paid Time Off – This position qualifies for unlimited PTO
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Paradigm Direct

5.0 Glassdoor

Paradigm Direct has a 20 year history helping Entrepreneurs achieve growth and stability in their businesses. Founded in 1996 and formerly known as National Marketing Resources, Paradigm has trained hundreds of thousands of small business owners on a broad range of topics. We also provide the most current financial products and services to help our customers reach their goals. Our expertise in investment and trading techniques, tax and estate planning, retirement, insurance, and credit card/merchant processing are at the core of what we bring to the table for our clients. Over the past three years the management team at Paradigm Direct has narrowed the focus to one simple mission, helping small business owners and entrepreneurial minded families: CHANGE THE WAY THEY THINK ABOUT:- Investing- Taxes- Estate Plans- Insurance- Processing We are doing this by changing the way people think about their futures and bringing these services and products directly to consumers........no middle man or expensive branding campaigns......just Paradigm Direct.

Founded in 1996
Kearney, Missouri, USA
33 employees (2 in marketing)
100% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.6%
Direct
41.8%
Referral
12.7%
Social
10%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~33

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (6% of company)