Associate Director, Paid Media

San Diego, CA (On-site)

$130K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize the paid media creative strategy across Meta, Google/YouTube, TikTok, and emerging channels, translating science and product claims into compelling, compliant creative and a scalable testing program.

  • Own the paid media plan, execution, and agency partnerships.
  • Lead cross-channel creative testing and performance optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own paid creative strategy across Meta, Google/YouTube, TikTok, and emerging channels.
  • Generate a constant pipeline of concepts, hooks, messages, formats, and creator ideas grounded in our brand story, approved messaging, product truths, and customer insights.
  • Translate complex science, product differentiation, clinical evidence, and customer outcomes into compelling concepts that drive action without sacrificing credibility.
  • Concept and art-direct static, video, UGC, creator, and other performance assets with designers and editors.
  • Translate media performance into clear creative briefs: what to test, why we’re testing it, and what we learned.
  • Identify creative fatigue, audience signals, and emerging opportunities and turn those insights into the next generation of creative.
  • Ensure the story holds from ad to landing page to checkout.
  • Protect KaramMD’s brand identity. We are not interested in copying what every other DTC skincare brand is doing simply because it is currently performing.
  • Write sharp creator briefs with clear hooks, proof points, must-says and must-avoids while leaving room for an authentic creator voice.
  • Help identify and vet creators, UGC talent, and expert voices who fit a prestige, science-first brand.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years in performance, growth, or paid media at a DTC/eCommerce consumer brand. Meaningful experience in beauty, skincare, wellness, or another science-backed consumer category is required.
  • Demonstrated experience managing and scaling meaningful paid-media budgets across Meta, Google/YouTube, TikTok, or comparable channels.
  • A portfolio of paid creative concepts and campaigns you personally helped develop, with measurable results.
  • Proven ability to ideate, brief, and art-direct high-performing creative, including UGC and creator content.
  • Experience translating complex or science-backed concepts into compelling consumer communication.
  • Experience building structured creative and media testing programs with clear hypotheses and documented learnings.
  • Strong understanding of CAC, LTV, retention, subscription economics, attribution, incrementality, and profitability.
  • Fluency in Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, Google Ads, Google Analytics, and attribution/creative analytics tools.
  • Strong Excel/Sheets skills.
  • Clear, confident communicator who can present results and recommendations to a founder and leadership team.

Preferred

  • Experience in prestige or clinical skincare, particularly marketing to women 40+.
  • Experience with subscription businesses where retention matters as much as acquisition.
  • Relationships with dermatologists, aestheticians, medical experts, or skin-science creators.
  • Experience with TikTok Shop, Amazon, retail, or omnichannel growth.
  • Hands-on familiarity with Figma, Canva, CapCut, Premiere, Motion, Foreplay, ShopMy, LTK, Cohley, or similar tools.
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KaramMD Skin

Great Skin. Made Simple. KaramMD is an award-winning, physician-founded, globally recognized skincare brand built at the intersection of surgical authority, clinical science, and disciplined simplicity.Founded by double board-certified facial plastic surgeon Dr. Amir Karam, the brand draws on nearly two decades of facial rejuvenation expertise and was created to challenge an industry built on confusion and over-complication.At the center of KaramMD is Trifecta, a proprietary, clinically grounded three-step system designed to replace routines that typically require eight to ten products with a strategic, results-driven protocol. Each formulation is developed with high-performance ingredients, barrier-supporting technology, and long-term skin quality in mind.KaramMD has grown through education, authority, and product performance, not trend-driven marketing.Commitment. Consistency. Continuity.

Founded in 2021
San Diego, California, USA
13 employees (5 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$130K/yr – $160K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Paid Media median pay in the United States

$93K/yr

Most earn $75K to $120K. Based on 2,262 salaries, including bonus and equity.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (31% of company)
Median Tenure
2.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
47.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.9%
Direct
27.7%
Referral
6.1%
Social
9.5%
Paid
15.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~13
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Associate Director, Paid Media

KaramMD Skin · San Diego, CA · On-site