Digital Paid Media & Performance Marketing Specialist

Oklahoma, USA (Hybrid)

$69K/yr – $71K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize paid-media programs across Google and Meta, shaping channel, audience and testing strategies to drive qualified leads and revenue, with cross-functional collaboration and ROI measurement.

  • Own end-to-end campaign planning and optimization
  • Collaborate with Sales on lead quality and follow-up
  • Provide ROI-focused performance reporting for budget decisions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Independently plan, build, launch and manage paid-media campaigns across Google Ads and Meta Ads Manager, with additional channel responsibility as appropriate.
  • Develop channel and audience strategies that support B2B and B2C lead generation, agent recruitment, demand generation and broader marketing objectives.
  • Manage paid search, paid social, display, video, retargeting and other performance-driven tactics across the prospect journey.
  • Translate campaign goals into effective targeting, bidding, budget, conversion and optimization strategies.
  • Evaluate opportunities to test new platforms, vendors, audience sources and emerging channels based on business fit, performance potential and scalability.
  • Monitor in-market campaigns closely and make data-driven optimization decisions to improve lead volume, lead quality, conversion performance and media efficiency.
  • Actively manage budget allocation, bid strategy, audience targeting, campaign objectives and pacing based on performance.
  • Identify and reduce media waste by analyzing underperforming keywords, placements, audiences, creative and tactics and reallocating spend toward stronger opportunities.
  • Develop and execute structured A/B tests across creative, copy, audiences, campaign objectives, offers and landing pages.
  • Use testing results to establish actionable learnings and continuously improve future campaign strategy and execution.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Business or a related field.
  • Minimum 3–5 years of hands-on experience planning, executing and optimizing paid-media and performance-marketing campaigns, preferably within an agency, B2B, B2C, D2C, financial services, insurance, lead-generation or other performance-driven marketing environment.
  • Demonstrated hands-on proficiency with Google Ads, including paid search campaign setup, keyword strategy, bidding, budget management, conversion tracking and ongoing optimization.
  • Demonstrated hands-on proficiency with Meta Ads Manager, including campaign setup, audience targeting, budget optimization, conversion objectives, creative testing and performance analysis.
  • Strong experience with paid search and paid social strategy and execution.
  • Experience connecting campaign activity to CRM and lead-management data to evaluate lead quality and downstream performance.
  • Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Campaign Manager and B2B paid-social campaigns.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage campaign budgets and make independent optimization decisions based on performance data.
  • Working knowledge of conversion tracking, audience targeting, retargeting, A/B testing and digital analytics/reporting.
  • Demonstrated experience generating and optimizing leads, with an understanding of lead acquisition, lead quality and downstream conversion.

Preferred

  • Experience with YouTube, Google Display or other display/video advertising platforms.
  • Experience developing retargeting, lookalike, geofencing or other advanced audience strategies.
  • Experience with marketing automation, nurture programs and the relationship between paid acquisition and lead follow-up.
  • Experience testing and optimizing landing pages for conversion.
  • Working knowledge of demand-generation strategy and how paid media contributes to both near-term lead acquisition and longer-term audience development.
  • Growth Opportunities: Feed optimization and product/data-feed strategy.
  • Cross-media optimization (XMO) or similar technology that dynamically allocates budget across digital channels based on performance.
  • AI-enabled lead qualification, scoring, prioritization and automated lead follow-up.
  • SMS, chat or voice AI capabilities that support faster lead engagement and conversion.
  • Experience testing emerging paid-media channels and new performance-marketing technologies.

Benefits

  • Compressed 4 1/2-day work week (Half-Day Fridays)
  • No monthly premium cost for employee medical, life and disability insurance coverage
  • Paid time-off accrual, including annual rollover; and paid holidays
  • Competitive 401(k) plan with immediate vesting on Company contributions
  • Discounted on-site employee cafeteria
  • On-site exercise facility and company-provided exercise time
  • Tuition reimbursement and training incentives
  • Access to voluntary dental and vision insurance coverage
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Illinois Mutual

3.8 Glassdoor

Founded in 1910 by the same family that leads the company today, Illinois Mutual is a trustworthy, experienced and caring provider of life insurance, disability insurance and voluntary worksite insurance products. Committed to serving the middle market, we help people achieve and safeguard their financial security. Our Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) by A.M. Best is just one way we demonstrate our strong commitment to our employees, agents and policyowners. Here are some others:•We pay 100% of our agents’ appointment fees.•To assist with work-life balance, employees have a compressed work week.•Employee benefits include complimentary medical, life and disability coverage.•Our sales support team answers agent calls in about 60 seconds on average and has an average of 15 years of experience.•We are proud to call our Company Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM, with 9 out of 10 employees calling Illinois Mutual a great place to work. Learn more about our CertificationTM at ilmutual.co/GPTW.Contact us today and experience and be a part of delivering the personal “family” service Illinois Mutual is known for providing.

Founded in 1910
Peoria, Illinois, USA
328 employees (6 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$69K/yr – $71K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
10.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.2%
Direct
39.3%
Referral
0.3%
Social
13.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~328
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Digital Paid Media & Performance Marketing Specialist

Illinois Mutual · Oklahoma, USA · Hybrid