Media Buyer - Paid Media (Non-Amazon Channels)

USA (Remote)

$120K/yr – $135K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media across channels, setting budgets, testing new platforms, optimizing campaigns, and driving profitability.

  • Own contribution-margin view and guardrails
  • Lead disciplined testing and platform evaluation

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Shopify lead to set channel- and product-level spend thresholds, and manage each product within its threshold..
  • Allocate spend across non-Amazon channels within approved budgets and agreed guardrails, tied to revenue and margin goals..
  • Evaluate new platforms, recommend which to test, design the test, define success and discontinuation criteria, and report results on a defined timeline..
  • Build, launch, and manage campaigns end to end..
  • Manage audiences, bidding, budgets, placements, and creative rotation daily..
  • Identify performance issues early — frequency, saturation, creative fatigue, rising CPAs — and act before budget is wasted..
  • Hold every campaign to CPA guardrails by product, with defined targets and hard caps that trigger action..
  • Manage to MER, ROAS, and 3-month LTV:CAC depending on the product and the channel’s role..
  • Own the contribution-margin view: protect profitable revenue and cut the spend running above guardrail..
  • Maintain a continuous test pipeline with the creative team and the performance-creative lead..

Requirements

  • Three or more years buying and managing paid media, in-house or agency, with direct budget ownership..
  • Three or more years of hands-on Meta and Google buying, with working knowledge of TikTok Ads..
  • Demonstrated experience scaling direct-to-consumer e-commerce spend profitably against CPA, ROAS, and MER targets..
  • Working command of contribution margin, CAC, LTV:CAC, and first-order unit economics..
  • Demonstrated testing discipline and timely decisions on whether to cut, optimize, or scale..
  • Effective written and verbal communication, including the ability to give creative direction grounded in performance data..

Preferred

  • Experience in supplements, CPG, health and wellness, or another regulated consumer product category..
  • Experience launching newer channels (Reddit, Pinterest, X) from an initial build..
  • Familiarity with subscription and retention economics..
  • Experience with creator, affiliate, or influencer programs and their attribution models..
  • Experience standing up an in-house buying function previously run by an agency..
  • Core Skills Paid media buying (Meta, Google, TikTok) •Budget ownership and allocation• CPA, ROAS, MER, and LTV:CAC management • Contribution-margin analysis •Creative testing and direction• New channel evaluation and launch •Platform and partner relationship management •Performance reporting and analysis• Decisive cut / optimize / scale judgment • Process ownership

Benefits

  • Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and paid holidays.
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Triquetra

We are a new kind of intermediary that acquires cash flowing businesses, transforms them into investments with impact, and then grows them. We combine private equity capital management functions with centralized corporate center functions into a holding company that creates scale, eliminates duplicated services between operating companies, and provides best in class back office functions.Financial "and" social returns are good. Three kinds of returns are better.Financial Return. Human Flourishing. Common Good.That is why we are called Triquetra.

Founded in 2017
Stilwell, Kansas, USA
5 employees (3 in marketing)

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (40% of company)
Median Tenure
1.8 years
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