Digital Advertising & Analytics Specialist

Wilmington, DE (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive digital marketing programs and client analytics across multiple platforms with team leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Own end-to-end digital marketing campaigns across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn with budget oversight.
  • Must-have: 3–8 years in paid digital advertising and agency leadership.
  • Standout: Mentors junior staff and coordinates production across writers and designers.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead monthly check-ins and reviews with the marketing team
  • Interface with clients to present monthly analytics results
  • Manage digital marketing campaigns and ad budgets across platforms like Google Search/Display, Meta, and LinkedIn
  • Develop strategy and provide recommendations for targeting, platforms, budgets, copy, and creative direction
  • Ensure campaigns align with client business goals; recommend optimizations when performance lags
  • Partner with project managers to prioritize tasks, manage production team efforts, and keep projects on time and on budget
  • Coordinate with writers and designers to deliver on-brand, goal-driven ad assets; review deliverables for strategic alignment
  • Use tools like GA4, Looker Studio, and Microsoft Clarity for reporting; troubleshoot technical issues across platforms
  • Investigate performance anomalies, suggest process improvements, and explore new tools, platforms, and campaign types
  • Show strong attention to detail, personal accountability, and adaptability in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

Requirements

  • 3-8 years of experience in digital marketing and digital paid advertising
  • Agency experience, and leadership/mentoring experience are strongly preferred
  • Proven ability to work with junior staff and/or contractors in a fast-paced, production-focused environment
  • Expertise in paid digital advertising across search and social media channels
  • High proficiency with campaign management, ad platforms, and budget oversight
  • Strategic mindset paired with a collaborative, hands-on leadership style
  • Familiarity with keyword research, SEO/SEM tactics, and digital marketing best practices
  • Experience with analytics and reporting tools like Looker Studio, GA4, and Microsoft Clarity
  • Strong communicator with the ability to translate complex data into clear, client-facing insights
  • (Bonus) design knowledge, CRM/email experience, or certifications in Google Ads and Meta platforms

Preferred

  • Bonus: design knowledge
  • CRM/email experience
  • certifications in Google Ads and Meta platforms

Benefits

  • 4 weeks paid vacation
  • 2 weeks paid sick time
  • paid holidays
  • Hybrid schedule (3 days in office, 2 days remote)
  • Office located in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. Parking is provided
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability (company-paid)
  • 401(k) with up to 4% match
  • Professional development time and tools
  • Plenty of snacks and a genuinely great team
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First Ascent

First Ascent is one of South Africa’s oldest and leading specialist outdoor brands having started in 1989. Synonymous with world-class design and quality, First Ascent continues to lead the way in the outdoors over 30 years later.Worn, used and trusted by outdoor fanatics every day, as well as many of South Africa’s most hardened and extreme explorers in some of the most inhospitable places on earth.From the summit of Everest and Kilimanjaro, to traversing the Drakensberg and hiking the Fish River Canyon, our gear has certainly been put to the test time and time again.With First Ascent, we enable you to perform at your best and control your unknown in any conditions, through gear that is technically designed and made for the outdoors, by people who love the outdoors.

Founded in 1989
Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
11 employees (5 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
52.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$6
Traffic Source Mix
Search
55.7%
Direct
38.2%
Referral
3.7%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~11

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (18% of company)