The Ride Platform - Senior Manager, Paid Media

Austin, TX (On-site)

$110K/yr – $130K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize multi-channel paid media across SEM, Paid Social, CTV, and more; lead testing, budgeting, measurement, and AI-assisted operations, with a focus on CAC/ROAS targets.

  • Own budget allocation and forecasting
  • Lead measurement and attribution partnerships
  • Drive AI-assisted media operations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage cross-platform budget allocation. Define the thesis and reallocate spend across channels to improve marginal efficiency, using data to back your decisions.
  • Oversee channel strategy and execution. This includes SEM, Paid Social, CTV, aggregator/metasearch PPC, and emerging paid LLM or AI-surface placements. You will handle campaign architecture, bidding, audiences, and creative rotation.
  • Run the testing engine. Manage a continuous, structured cadence of audience, creative, bid, and landing-page tests. Focus on documented learnings that build over time rather than one-off experiments.
  • Maintain efficiency accountability. Track blended and per-brand CAC, ROAS, and CPA-to-LTV against shared growth targets. You own these numbers.
  • Partner on measurement and attribution. Work with analytics and Marketing Ops on attribution and incrementality testing to ensure a single source of truth for spend and return.
  • Handle budget governance and forecasting. Manage monthly and quarterly spend planning, pacing, and forecasting to ensure no surprises.
  • Direct agency and vendor management. Guide paid agencies and contractors to follow in-house standards.
  • Lead AI-assisted media operations. Run bid and budget management, anomaly detection, and reporting through agents and automated workflows. Build the loop rather than the manual report.
  • Ensure structured campaign context. Encode brand, segment, and offer context so AI-driven creative and targeting remain on-strategy across four distinct brand voices.

Requirements

  • 6–8+ years in paid or performance marketing, with direct ownership of a multi-million-dollar annual budget.
  • Hands-on craft across at least two of the following channels: SEM, Paid Social, CTV/programmatic, and aggregator/metasearch. You are fluent in the others.
  • Proven judgment in budget allocation. You have successfully moved money between channels and can demonstrate the results.
  • Strong measurement instinct. You are comfortable with attribution, incrementality, and CAC/LTV math. You can get and use data without waiting for an analyst.
  • An owner mindset. You are biased toward action, hold yourself accountable to the numbers, and can clear roadblocks.
  • AI fluency. You use AI in your daily work and feel comfortable operating paid channels through AI-assisted workflows instead of manual platform UIs.

Preferred

  • Experience in B2C marketplace and B2B SaaS acquisition, ideally in mobility, travel, fintech, or insurtech.
  • Comfort with paid advertising in regulated industries, including specific insurance advertising constraints.
  • Background in marketplace or two-sided acquisition, or high-volume e-commerce.
  • Early experience with paid LLM or AI-surface placements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Benefits: 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees, 401(k) match, and Flexible PTO.
  • Vibrant Culture: Work at our Austin HQ with catered lunches, happy hours, and team-building events.
  • Work-Life Balance: We offer marketplace discounts and maintain a culture that values the balance between work and adventure.
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The Ride Platform

The Ride Platform is building the infrastructure for the mobility economy. Our four lines of business provide the full stack — marketplaces, fleet management SaaS, and specialized insurance — that turns vehicles into profitable businesses. ***Outdoorsy is the world’s most trusted, high quality RV travel and accommodations marketplace that includes our owned and operated destinations.Ride is the professional car rental marketplace built for high-volume fleet operators ready to capitalize on the future of autonomous travel.Roamly is the leading AI-first specialty insurance provider purpose-built for modern mobility marketplaces, from carsharing to connected fleets.Wheelbase is the SaaS operating system for auto and RV fleets that gives operators control over pricing, utilization, and embedded insurance.***We exist to unlock what's possible for entrepreneurs in the mobility economy.

Founded in 2015
Austin, Texas, USA
288 employees (31 in marketing)

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Posted range

$110K/yr – $130K/yr

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The Ride Platform - Senior Manager, Paid Media

The Ride Platform · Austin, TX · On-site