Senior Growth Media Manager

Carbondale, CO (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $90K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end growth media program from strategy to execution, leading cross‑channel planning, budget forecasting, testing, and team collaboration to hit ecommerce targets.

  • Own cross-channel budget allocation and forecasting
  • Lead incremental testing and translate results into media decisions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic media recommendations with supporting rationale
  • Show command over management of client relationships
  • Develop, present and execute full-funnel, cross-channel media strategies and plans that hit ecommerce performance targets
  • Apply expertise to collaborate with channel teams across paid social and paid search
  • Own cross-channel budget allocation and forecasting, using media mix modeling and incrementality read-outs to move spend toward what earns it
  • Partner with analytics team to run incrementality tests — geo-lift, holdout and platform conversion-lift studies — and translate the results into media decisions
  • Partner with client creative teams or Backbone creative on testing frameworks — hypothesis, volume, iteration — and deliver clear reads on what won and why
  • Manage buy stewardship, analyze campaigns and recommend tactical changes to maximize campaign performance
  • Collaborate with digital operations to ensure measurement infrastructure is in place, including server-side tracking, conversions APIs and clean data feeds into the attribution stack
  • Confidently collaborate with internal teams across channels, analytics, trafficking, and finance

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 4-7 years of relevant experience in growth media, performance marketing or paid media
  • Hands-on experience with at least one ecommerce measurement platform — Triple Whale, Prescient AI, Northbeam, Rockerbox, Haus, Measured, or similar.
  • Certifications for Google Ads, Google Analytics (GA4) and Meta Blueprint

Preferred

  • Programmatic and CTV experience with The Trade Desk or Google DV360
  • Experience with Amazon Ads and Amazon DSP, or other retail media networks such as Walmart Connect, Instacart or Target Roundel
  • Experience with affiliate, creator and influencer paid amplification
  • Knowledgeable in SEM and SEO, including how AI search surfaces are changing organic discovery
  • Experience managing and/or optimizing a Shopify storefront, including CRO and post-click testing
  • Basic understanding of public relations, community management and lifecycle or retention marketing
  • Understanding of Backbone’s core values
  • A love of the outdoors
  • A sense of humor

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Benefits: · Medical coverage (including Employer 100% paid option) · Dental coverage · Vision coverage · 401 (k) match · Wellness benefit · Home office stipend · Professional development/education assistance · Paid volunteer hours · Parental leave · Flexible schedule · Company-wide offsites · Hybrid workplace — 2 days per week in office
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Backbone Media

At Backbone, we are insiders of the outside world; we bring an expedition mindset and discipline specializations to hone, amplify, and stoke brands in the active lifestyle space and beyond. Backbone is an integrated marketing agency with capabilities in public relations, paid media, strategy, social media, influencer marketing, search marketing (SEO and SEM), analytics, affiliate marketing, and retail marketing. From day one, Backbone was rooted in the idea that you could fuse passion for an outdoor, active lifestyle with a profession advocating for brands you believe in. Today, we’re a team of more than 100 hard-charging runners, skiers, climbers, cyclists, hikers, paddlers, hunters, anglers, dog lovers and travel enthusiasts. We align our employees’ passions with the brands they represent.Our fast-paced offices in Denver and Carbondale have landed us on Outside’s “Best Places to Work” list more years than we can count. But we don’t just throw around buzzwords like teamwork, trust, and transparency. We live and breathe by our true north — from lunch runs, the Powder Clause and happy hours to trail work days and river clean-ups.Check out our website to learn more about us and what we do.

Founded in 1997
Carbondale, Colorado, USA
109 employees (73 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$75K/yr – $90K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
71 (65% of company)
Median Tenure
4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$38
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.1%
Direct
47.7%
Referral
6.5%
Social
11.6%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~108
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Senior Growth Media Manager

Backbone Media · Carbondale, CO · Hybrid