Senior Paid Media Manager

USA (Remote)

$93K/yr - $109K/yr (Est.)Senior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize a multi-channel paid growth program, driving incremental pipeline and revenue while aligning spend to personas, funnel stages, and segment-level goals.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Establish attribution models, forecasting, and structured experimentation to improve efficiency.
  • Channel Strategy & Optimization: Align paid social, display, video, affiliates, and offline media to personas and funnel stages; optimize mix for pipeline and CAC.
  • Investment & Performance Governance: Manage multi-channel budget, reallocate based on incremental returns and segment goals; tie forecasting to business outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead multi-channel paid strategy
  • Own cross-channel strategy and performance across paid social, display, video, affiliates, and offline media
  • Drive channel mix optimization to maximize incremental pipeline and revenue impact
  • Align channel strategies to personas, segments, and funnel stages
  • Drive performance and optimization
  • Evaluate and optimize channel performance based on business outcomes (pipeline, revenue, CAC)
  • Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and scale across channels
  • Evaluate channel contribution and incrementality to inform investment decisions
  • Own and optimize a multi-channel media budget, reallocating investment based on incremental returns across channels and segments
  • Align channel investment to segment-level pipeline and revenue goals
  • Support forecasting and performance planning tied to business outcomes
  • Build and own a structured experimentation roadmap to drive scalable growth
  • Test new channels, formats, audiences, and creative strategies
  • Partner closely with Revenue Marketing, Product Marketing, and Sales to align on growth targets, feedback loops, and performance insights
  • Establish strong feedback loops to inform optimization and performance insights
  • Ensure tight integration across paid efforts to improve full-funnel performance

Requirements

  • 7-10+ years in performance marketing across multiple paid channels
  • Proven ability to scale multi-channel acquisition programs
  • Strong analytical foundation with experience in attribution and experimentation
  • Experience managing budgets with clear ROI accountability
  • Ability to connect channel performance to business outcomes
  • You’ll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.
  • You’ll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.
  • You’ll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.

Benefits

  • In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
  • Health & Wellness Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
  • Inclusive culture and diversity: Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
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Avalara is the agentic tax and compliance leader. For more than two decades, Avalara has developed one of the most expansive libraries of tax content and integrations in the industry, supporting over 43,000 businesses and government entities across more than 75 countries. The company's purpose-built AI agents automate end-to-end compliance processes with greater precision, from tax calculations and return filings to exemption certificate management and beyond. For more information, visit Avalara.com.

Founded in 2004
Durham, North Carolina, USA
5.8K employees (240 in marketing)
60% recommend to a friend
68% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$962.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.7%
Direct
55%
Referral
5.3%
Social
0.6%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
187 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
5.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Funding

Total Funding
$841M
Last Raise
$500M
Private Equity, 4 months ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2025
    Private Equity • $500M
  • Jan 2023
    Private Equity
  • Oct 2022
    Post IPO Debt • $38.6K

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