Media Buyer

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$65K/yr – $70K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own paid social execution across Meta, LinkedIn, Google, Reddit, and TikTok with end‑to‑end campaign launches, daily optimization, and tagging governance to ensure data quality and delivery alignment.

  • Campaign Building & Trafficking: Own end-to-end launches across the platform stack and ensure flighting alignment.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Align with media planners, creatives, and project managers to traffic new variants on time.
  • Technical Operations & Tagging: Govern pixel setup and GTM tagging to tie events to platform delivery.

Job Description

Responsibilities - Campaign Building & Trafficking: Build, QA, and launch paid digital media campaigns across self-managed platforms, primarily Meta, LinkedIn, Google (including Demand Gen, YouTube), Reddit, and TikTok. - In-Platform Optimization: Conduct daily monitoring of active campaigns. Adjust bidding strategies, execute audience exclusions, manage budget pacing, and deploy creative swaps in accordance with planned flighting schedules. - Technical Operations & Tagging: Support pixel governance, conversion mapping, and overseeing event tagging via Google Tag Manager (GTM) to ensure accurate performance data links seamlessly back to ad platform algorithms. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Media Planners and Search Managers to review media plans for operational feasibility. Work closely with Creative Strategists, Account Directors, and Project Managers to traffic newly approved ad variants smoothly. - Brand Safety & Compliance: Enforce strict brand safety frameworks (e.g., publisher exclusions, blocklists) and pixel setups aligned with client consent management platforms to safeguard institution reputations. Requirements - Platform Experience: 2–5 years of direct, hands-on-keyboard execution experience within Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, and Google Ads. - Process-Driven Mindset: Attention to detail regarding naming conventions, creative parameters, and budget allocations; ability to operate independently without manual oversight. - Data Literacy: Strong capability in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets, data normalization, and diagnosing platform-level delivery discrepancies or tracking drops. - Agency Experience Preferred: Familiarity with mid-to-large account budgets, multi-brand environments, or deadline-driven marketing cycles is highly preferred. Nice-to-Have - Fluency in other paid social platforms is a plus. - Familiarity with mid-to-large account budgets, multi-brand environments, or deadline-driven marketing cycles is highly preferred. Benefits - Health care plan (medical, dental and vision) - Retirement plan with employer match - Life and disability insurance - Generous paid time off package that includes vacation, sick, “life happens” days, birthdays, summer Fridays and public holidays - Paid family leave - Cold brew coffee, snacks and fresh fruit - Wellness resources - Special access to New York City’s arts and entertainment scene
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Situation Group

Situation Group is an award-winning global collective that champions brand experiences.Our portfolio of companies includes:Situation: Our agency for experience-based brands.Town Hall: Our agency for nonprofit and education organizations.Situation Project: Our nonprofit that serves students through experiences.We collaborate with entertainment, education, and mission-driven brands, including No Kid Hungry, Columbia University, Harvard Online, Madison Square Garden, WICKED on Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, and more.We believe how we do our work matters just as much as our work—Crain's, Best Companies Group, Cynopsis, Digiday, and Fortune have all honored us with workplace awards.Discover career opportunities at https://apply.workable.com/situationgroup/

Founded in 2001
New York, New York, USA
171 employees (69 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.4%
Direct
48.6%
Referral
5.7%
Social
15.8%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~171

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
51 (30% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4