Paid Media Specialist

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$75K/yr – $88K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 23 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and drive end-to-end paid media performance by analyzing the full funnel, triangulating signals, and translating data into strategic recommendations, with a focus on budget, channel mix, and testing across paid search, paid social, and other channels.

  • Own day-to-day management and strategic oversight of paid media channels
  • Identify opportunities, risks, and anomalies and develop data-driven recommendations
  • Partner with agencies while maintaining internal ownership and expanding channel expertise

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the day-to-day management and strategic oversight of paid search, paid social, and other performance marketing channels.
  • Analyze performance across the entire customer funnel rather than evaluating advertising platforms in isolation.
  • Investigate performance changes by triangulating multiple signals, including media metrics, conversion behavior, lead quality, scheduling activity, downstream outcomes, tracking changes, landing-page changes, and broader business trends.
  • Translate data into a clear point of view: What happened? Why did it happen? Does it matter? What should we do next?
  • Identify opportunities, risks, and anomalies proactively rather than waiting for them to be assigned.
  • Develop recommendations around budget allocation, channel mix, campaign strategy, testing, targeting, landing pages, and measurement.
  • Partner with media agencies while maintaining strong internal ownership of performance and strategy.
  • Challenge agency recommendations when appropriate and ensure decisions are grounded in business outcomes rather than platform metrics alone.
  • Monitor testing and changes across the organization that could impact paid media performance and help ensure appropriate stakeholders are informed.
  • Work closely with analytics and measurement partners to understand attribution, conversion tracking, offline conversion data, and other signals used to evaluate media effectiveness.

Requirements

  • Experience working in paid search, paid social, or another performance marketing discipline.
  • Strong analytical instincts and comfort working with large or imperfect datasets.
  • Ability to move beyond surface-level observations and investigate the underlying drivers of performance.
  • Demonstrated ability to connect data from multiple sources to develop a complete view of a business problem.
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
  • Intellectual curiosity and a genuine desire to understand how and why things work.
  • Ability to operate effectively when a problem does not have an obvious answer or predefined set of steps.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Comfort asking questions, challenging assumptions, and developing an independent point of view.
  • Ability to prioritize work based on business impact rather than simply completing assigned tasks.

Preferred

  • Experience with Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta Ads, or similar platforms.
  • Experience working with external media agencies.
  • Familiarity with conversion tracking, offline conversions, attribution, CRM or first-party data.
  • Experience managing or analyzing significant digital media budgets.
  • Experience in a lead-generation or performance marketing business where media success depends on downstream customer actions.
  • Exposure to experimentation, landing-page optimization, or conversion-rate optimization.

Benefits

  • generous benefits package that includes paid time off, health, dental, vision, and 401(k) savings plan with match
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