Associate Marketing Manager I, Paid Media

Vernon Hills, IL (Hybrid)

$68K/yr – $78K/yrEntry LevelFull time

Posted 12 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media programs across digital channels, lead cross-functional collaboration, and drive structured testing, optimization, and reporting to deliver growth.

  • Lead end-to-end campaign execution and performance reporting
  • Develop audience testing frameworks and implement optimization across key platforms

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage end-to-end paid media campaign execution across digital channels, including setup, trafficking, QA, tracking implementation, optimization, and reporting.
  • Partner with brand, sales, eCommerce, and creative teams to align media strategies with business objectives, product launches, and promotional priorities.
  • Contribute to media planning by providing performance insights, audience recommendations, creative strategy input, channel investment recommendations, and budget allocation guidance.
  • Develop and execute structured testing plans across audiences, creative, bidding strategies, placements, and channels to drive continuous performance improvement and learning.
  • Analyze campaign, audience, and creative performance data to identify trends, generate actionable insights, and recommend optimization opportunities.
  • Partner with agency teams and platform representatives to optimize campaign performance, implement best practices, and identify new growth opportunities.
  • Leverage AI-enabled tools and platform capabilities to improve campaign management efficiency, reporting processes, and performance outcomes.
  • Communicate campaign performance, key learnings, and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Respond promptly to questions, alerts, and campaign issues with a strong customer focus and sense of urgency.
  • Within the first 90 days, successfully support paid media campaigns across assigned channels , ensuring campaign assets, tracking, timelines, and reporting are completed accurately and on schedule.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience in Marketing, Business, Advertising, or a related field.
  • Hands-on experience managing TikTok Shop GMV Max campaigns (TikTok GMV ads), including campaign setup, optimization, and performance analysis, strongly preferred.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret campaign performance data, identify trends, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
  • Leverage AI-enabled tools and platform capabilities to improve campaign efficiency, identify optimization opportunities, and support data-driven decision-making.
  • Ability to track and manage programs across multiple retailers, and campaign reporting.
  • Understanding and ability to navigate retailer systems and the experience help to resolve retailer issues.
  • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with management, sales teams, peers and agency partners and manage those relationships to achieve objectives
  • Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
  • Proactive and resourceful in solving problems
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hand2mind

We believe in the power of learning by doing: that hands-on learning engages children, deepens their understanding, and provides them with the confidence they need to reach their fullest potential. For more than 60 years, hand2mind has been dedicated to supporting those who champion learning, and also those they champion. With products designed to enhance learning in the classroom and the world around us, we strive to find new ways to encourage hands-on exploration and discovery. Our dynamic experiences are captivating, personalized and fun, while also proven to be developmentally appropriate at every level. At hand2mind we support teachers, engage parents, and build confidence in learners. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to succeed and learning is a fundamental right. Because when children truly understand, there is no limit to what they can achieve.

Founded in 1965
Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA
147 employees (41 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$68K/yr – $78K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
29 (20% of company)
Median Tenure
3.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
140.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.6%
Direct
46.7%
Referral
5.5%
Social
1.6%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~147
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Associate Marketing Manager I, Paid Media

hand2mind · Vernon Hills, IL · Hybrid