Coordinator, Paid Media

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$37K/yr – $52K/yrEntry LevelFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize paid media campaigns end-to-end across platforms, coordinating assets, timelines, reporting, and billing while driving insights, gaps, and future readiness.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the paid media team throughout the campaign lifecycle, including briefing, audience research, media planning, setup, launch, optimization, and reporting
  • Coordinate with clients and internal teams to gather creative assets, copy, destination links, approvals, and other campaign materials; track deadlines and flag missing items
  • Assist with campaign setup and media buying across platforms such as Meta, TikTok, Google/YouTube, Snapchat, X, and programmatic advertising partners
  • Perform prelaunch quality checks on access, creative specifications, copy, links, targeting, budgets, flight dates, and tracking parameters
  • Monitor campaign delivery, spend, and budget pacing; flag discrepancies or performance concerns and assist with optimizations under the guidance of the paid media team
  • Support audience research, segmentation, and activation across artist affinity, interest, engagement, retargeting, customer, and lookalike audiences
  • Coordinate campaign changes, creative refreshes, and testing, maintaining accurate records of approvals and updates
  • Prepare accurate campaign updates and post campaign reports using advertising platforms, internal tools, and third-party dashboards
  • Track performance against campaign objectives and relevant metrics
  • Translate campaign results into clear takeaways and recommendations for review by the paid media team

Requirements

  • Relevant experience through internships, employment, coursework, or hands-on projects in digital advertising, marketing, media, or a related field
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word; comfort using spreadsheets for campaign tracking, reporting, and billing reconciliation
  • Proficiency in Figma, Airtable, Canva
  • Experience with Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, Google Ads, or other digital advertising platforms preferred
  • Familiarity with campaign reporting dashboards, web analytics, pixels, UTM tracking, and conversion measurement preferred
  • Experience with invoice processing, budget tracking, purchase orders, or financial systems such as SAP/Uniport preferred
  • Music industry, record label, distribution, or advertising agency experience preferred
  • Familiarity with creative tools such as Photoshop is a plus
  • College degree or equivalent relevant experience preferred

Preferred

  • Proficiency in Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, Google Ads, or other digital advertising platforms preferred
  • Familiarity with campaign reporting dashboards, web analytics, pixels, UTM tracking, and conversion measurement preferred
  • Experience with invoice processing, budget tracking, purchase orders, or financial systems such as SAP/Uniport preferred
  • Music industry, record label, distribution, or advertising agency experience preferred
  • Familiarity with creative tools such as Photoshop is a plus
  • College degree or equivalent relevant experience preferred

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Including 100% coverage for out-patient in-network mental health services
  • Fertility coverage for eligible medical plan participants
  • Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and so much more (up to $720/year)
  • Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
  • 401(k) with 100% immediate vesting on the first 5% of your contributions, plus an additional UMG contribution
  • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees
  • 3-weeks PTO for non-exempt employees
  • 2-weeks paid Winter Break
  • 10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day)

Universal Music Group

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Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Universal Music Group's labels include A&M Records, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Label Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company. Find out more at: http://www.universalmusic.com.View our current career opportunities at: http://www.umusiccareers.com

Founded in 1934
Santa Monica, California, USA
19K employees (8,504 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
74% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$37K/yr – $52K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,960 (16% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$8.6B
Last Raise
Post IPO Debt, 3 years ago

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
352.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
55.2%
Direct
34%
Referral
6.9%
Social
3.5%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~18.7K

Coordinator, Paid Media

Universal Music Group · Los Angeles, CA · On-site