Digital Investment Manager, Paid Social & Programmatic

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$80K/yr – $110K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own and translate paid social opportunities into strategic recommendations while leading campaigns and mentoring the team.

  • Lead day-to-day campaign execution and QA across Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, and Reddit.
  • Drive performance through new audiences, formats, and creative approaches.
  • Coach junior staff and manage client relationships and cross-functional collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the paid social subject-matter expert for clients, translating platform capabilities across Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, and Reddit into strategic recommendations that advance client goals.
  • Proactively bring new paid social opportunities — audiences, formats, and creative approaches — to clients to drive measurable performance and growth.
  • Manage the team’s daily duties, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of all deliverables (including but not limited to pacing, trafficking, QA, creative swaps, A/B testing, reporting).
  • Oversee digital operations and quality assurance across all campaigns, continuously refining processes to deliver high-quality, error-free work.
  • Mentor and train junior staff to ensure continuous growth and development.
  • Analyze and interpret data trends and develop improvement solutions; educate Client Services / Campaign Managers on changes to process.
  • Support new business pitches with tactical expertise and innovative recommendations.
  • Collaborate with leadership and peers to develop solutions that will enhance our campaign performance, operational efficiency, tools, and systems, and improve current workflows.
  • Build, implement, and manage campaigns day-to-day, ensuring buys are properly executed and pacing to plan.
  • Be able to act as a “player/manager” - know how to balance delegation and training with being hands on to help get things done.

Requirements

  • Above all, must be curious, collaborative, and eager to learn.
  • Minimum 3-5 years’ work experience in performance media required and can demonstrate a history of being able to quickly learn and adapt in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
  • Ability to manage paid social media campaigns across a variety of objectives, from awareness to conversion, across the top social networks including Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, and Reddit.
  • Demonstrated hands on programmatic activation experience a must, across relevant programmatic channels like CTV, OLV, Display, Streaming Audio, and Native.
  • Expert in the use of relevant buying platforms (i.e. Google Ads, Meta Ads, Amazon Ads, Innovid / Flashtalking, etc.).
  • Working knowledge of digital ad operations and tagging/tracking tools such as Google Analytics.
  • Working knowledge of 1P and 3P data sources to deliver campaign performance.
  • Minimum 1-2 years’ experience managing direct reports.
  • Bachelor’s degree or coursework in related industry strongly preferred.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel).

Benefits

  • NOVUS offers a full array of health care and wellness benefits, which currently includes medical, prescription, dental, vision, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurances, short and long-term disability, pre-tax flexible spending accounts, a health savings account, legal services, identity theft protection and an employee assistance program.
  • A group retirement savings plan is also available to all salaried employees.
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NOVUS Media LLC

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We are an award-winning, independent media agency specializing in planning, buying and providing analytics on media performance. Three key benefits set us apart from most agencies: 1. We maximize your dollars and minimize waste. Our conviction is that since business situations and business needs differ greatly by geography, “cookie cutter” plans don’t cut it. We minimize waste by 15-25% on average by focusing media exactly where you need it. 2. We drive traffic. At the core, we get people to take action. Our proprietary approach to ZIP Code prioritization and dynamic digital optimization has proven to drive ROI / ROAS increases quarter after quarter. 3. We deliver results, not reach. Unlike most agencies, we don’t plan nor optimize to traditional media metrics like reach. Rather, we developed proprietary tools like “FullSail” to optimize to the best media channel mix across the full funnel, both awareness and sales. And our optimizations are inclusive of all media – display, video, search, social, TV, radio, OOH, and print – all at a DMA or sub-DMA level --based on modeled sales response.

Founded in 1987
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
160 employees (39 in marketing)
37% recommend to a friend
64% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$80K/yr – $110K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
37 (23% of company)
Median Tenure
5.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.1%
Direct
44.4%
Referral
4.7%
Social
10%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~160
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Digital Investment Manager, Paid Social & Programmatic

NOVUS Media LLC · Chicago, IL · Hybrid