PAID MEDIA ASSOCIATE

District of Columbia, USA (Unknown)

$30/hr – $32/hrMid Level3+ years expContract

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own Meta paid social operations across brand lines, turning assets into tested campaigns and clear performance signals for leadership to act on.

  • Growth/ownership: Manage end to end Meta Ads campaigns and tests from asset gathering to sub to landing page optimization.
  • Creative & audience: Aggregate assets, run imagery and copy tests, and refine targeting with lookalikes and custom audiences to drive subscriptions. Meta Ads
  • Insights & alignment: Translate platform data into recommendations that feed CRM and retention goals under the Director, CRM & Consumer Lifecycle, ensuring historical context is easy for non technical stakeholders to digest. Director, CRM & Consumer Lifecycle

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Aggregate imagery, copy, and URLs for paid social ads from various stakeholders and organize in a way that ads in Meta can be created and tested.
  • Familiarity with Meta Ads; create and test ads directly in the platform.
  • Maintain stakeholder-friendly documentation that reflects a historical log of changes to the campaigns in Meta.
  • Partner with various internal stakeholders to gather creative assets, including high-quality imagery, ad copy, and destination URLs tailored for National Geographic, Kids, Little Kids, and History magazine brands.
  • Organize, catalog, and prepare aggregated creative components to ensure seamless ad creation, alignment with brand guidelines, and efficient dynamic creative testing.
  • Build, launch, and manage paid social ad campaigns directly within the Meta Ads Manager platform to drive magazine subscriptions.
  • Set up and execute creative and audience split tests (imagery, copy variations, and landing pages) to optimize campaign performance and identify top-performing conversion drivers.
  • Support the implementation of audience targeting strategies, including lookalikes, custom audiences, and interest-based segments.
  • Ensure documentation is clear, accessible, and easily digestible for non-technical stakeholders and leadership to understand current campaign statuses and historical context.
  • Work closely under the direction of the Director, CRM & Consumer Lifecycle to align paid media efforts with broader customer acquisition and retention goals.
  • Assist in translating Meta platform data into actionable insights.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of relevant experience and advanced knowledge of the campaign, ad set, and ad infrastructure in Meta.
  • 2+ years experience with planning and executing ads or posts in Meta platforms.
  • Proficient with Microsoft applications (MS Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, etc.)
  • Experience with Airtable, Jira, or similar project management platforms
  • Required Education: Bachelor's Degree.

Benefits

  • comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
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Atlanta, Georgia, USA
952 employees (120 in marketing)

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56.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$814
Traffic Source Mix
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16.8%
Direct
50.9%
Referral
18.7%
Social
13.2%
Paid
0.2%

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74 (8% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
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7.7 years
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