Associate Marketing Manager I, Paid Media

Vernon Hills, IL (On-site)

$68K/yr – $78K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media campaign execution and optimization across digital channels, including setup, QA, reporting, and cross‑functional collaboration with agencies and marketing stakeholders.

  • Manage campaign setup, tracking, creative trafficking, and launch readiness
  • Monitor performance, insights, and optimization opportunities with partners
  • Maintain documentation, budgets, and issue resolution

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Execute and support paid media campaigns across digital channels, managing campaign setup, tracking implementation, creative trafficking, platform configuration, and launch readiness.
  • Conduct pre-launch and in-flight QA reviews to validate campaign accuracy, tracking functionality, creative approvals, and reporting integrity.
  • Support both direct campaign execution within advertising platforms and coordination of agency-managed campaigns, ensuring deliverables, timelines, and performance expectations are met.
  • Monitor campaign performance, attribution, and conversion metrics, partnering with agencies and platform partners to identify optimization opportunities.
  • Develop recurring performance reports and translate campaign data into actionable insights and recommendations for marketing stakeholders.
  • Monitor campaign budgets, pacing, and spend performance, ensuring alignment with approved plans and promptly escalating discrepancies.
  • Support Amazon DSP, retail media, paid search, paid social, display, programmatic, and other digital advertising initiatives through execution, reporting, and optimization.
  • Maintain accurate campaign documentation, budgets, project records, and tracking frameworks while proactively identifying and resolving execution issues.
  • Assist in researching emerging advertising channels, audience strategies, AI-powered media tools, reporting automation solutions, and industry trends to support continuous improvement.
  • Respond promptly to questions, alerts, and campaign issues with a strong customer focus and sense of urgency.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience in Marketing, Business, Advertising, or a related field.
  • 1-2 years of relevant paid media experience, including internships and/or agency experience, supporting digital advertising campaigns.
  • 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

Benefits

  • Total compensation includes profit sharing bonus potential, 401k matching, and a variety of other benefits (details can be found here ).
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Associate Marketing Manager I, Paid Media

Learning Resources · Vernon Hills, IL · On-site