Media Strategist, Buying

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the paid media portfolio across multiple digital channels, turning client strategy into measurable media objectives and KPIs while driving direct response, awareness, and advocacy outcomes.

  • Channel ownership: manage campaigns across Facebook, Google, Bing, Campaign Manager 360, and Verizon DSP and optimize with data-driven testing.
  • Measurement and optimization: apply a strong POV on attribution and conversion tracking to inform strategy and on-going campaign decisions.
  • Client leadership: lead client interactions as the platform expert and collaborate with planners, strategists, designers, and analysts to shape campaigns and experiments.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Execute game-changing advertising strategies that tie engagement to the bottom line.
  • Build, manage, and optimize media campaigns across multiple platforms, primarily using Facebook Business Manager, Google and Bing Ads, Google Campaign Manager 360, and the Verizon Media DSP. (Other digital channel expertise is a plus.)
  • Translate clients’ strategic visions into media objectives and KPIs to accomplish a wide range of client objectives including direct response (lead gen and fundraising), awareness, persuasion, and advocacy.
  • Analyze ongoing and historical performance data to identify opportunities for improvement, make strategic recommendations, and generate reporting and insights to drive optimization.
  • Have a strong POV on measurement, attribution, and conversion tracking, and apply that knowledge to strategic recommendations and ongoing campaign management.
  • Participate in (and sometimes lead) client-facing interactions — you’ll be the subject-matter expert for the platforms you manager
  • Work collaboratively with other internal or external teams, including media planners, strategists, account directors, designers, and analysts, to produce campaigns, creative ideas, audience and target recommendations, and experimental designs.
  • Keep up to date with the latest digital media trends by building and stewarding relationships with media partners, and engaging in media R&D projects.

Requirements

  • 2-4 years experience in a hands-on paid media buying role using a mix of digital channels (Social, Search, Display, Video, Native, OOH, etc) - with preference to experience in executing, managing, and reporting on media campaigns with a mix of objectives/goals.
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple clients and projects on time, within budget, and meet performance goals.
  • High proficiency with digital advertising platforms — you ultimately want to become a master of paid social, paid search, and/or programmatic trading — as well as Google Analytics and other measurement platforms
  • Exceptional attention to detail, especially with regards to campaign setup and trafficking, QA, and reporting.
  • Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required.
  • A shared passion and curiosity for delivering change. This includes comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality that ensures we’re always making progress.
  • A testing evangelist - no result is ever a problem as long as we can learn and improve in future.
  • Humble in victory, constructive in defeat. We champion and expect empathy, communication, collaboration, and respect.

Preferred

  • Other digital channel expertise is a plus.

Benefits

  • Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
  • $1,250 annually in professional development funds
  • Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Inclusive family planning coverage, including fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits
  • Flexible and health savings accounts
  • 401K & employer match
  • Generous paid holiday schedule
  • 12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Remote work flexibility
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We believe there’s no force more powerful than people taking collective action on the things they care about. When an organization wants to mobilize people around a common purpose, they come to us. We don’t pretend to have all the answers, but we know where to find them: in people. We listen, learn, and uncover new insights that often surprise us and our clients — and move us toward better results. Blue State got its start on the campaign trail, pioneering the use of digital to open up the democratic process. Our new approach caught on, and we set out to do more good: raising millions more for nonprofits, shaping legislation and public opinion, and connecting consumers with brands. While our approach is continually evolving, our ethos has never changed:Make good trouble.When the status quo stands in the way of progress, we challenge it.Be curious.We ask the tough questions and let the data lead to answers.Put people first.We let the user drive the program, not the other way around.Drive real change.We obsess over outcomes and actions.If you need it, build it.We make stuff that empowers people to act on the things they care about.Walk the walk.Progress starts with us: our diversity, inclusion, and commitment to values over profits.

Founded in 2004
Brooklyn, New York, USA
174 employees (52 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
11.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$715
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.4%
Direct
49.3%
Referral
9.4%
Social
7.5%
Paid
1.2%

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Current headcount: ~174

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Marketing Team Size
36 (21% of company)
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