Manager of Paid Media

Austin, TX (Remote)

$140K/yr – $160K/yrManagerFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale Meta led acquisition and testing, driving cross-channel investment decisions, building and leading a high-performing team, and delivering measurable growth through rigorous SOPs, creative testing, and close partnership with brand and product teams.

  • Own strategy, budgeting, and testing roadmap across Meta channels
  • Build and lead execution, QA, and reporting with senior stakeholders

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Meta strategy across Facebook and Instagram, spanning prospecting, retargeting, and retention support.
  • Manage a significant and scaling monthly Meta budget and broader paid media budget, with accountability for CAC, ROAS, MER, and efficient growth.
  • Make cross channel investment decisions using incrementality, blended efficiency, and business outcomes rather than last click performance.
  • Own Meta account structure, campaign architecture, bidding, audience strategy, placements, and ongoing optimization
  • Build and run a rigorous testing roadmap across audiences, offers, formats, and creative, with clear hypotheses, success criteria, and actionable readouts.
  • Stay ahead of Meta’s product roadmap, including Advantage+, Partnership Ads, new placements, and emerging signals, and determine what is worth testing and scaling.
  • Build and lead direct reports responsible for in platform execution, QA, and reporting.
  • Set clear operating standards, cadences, and review processes that enable the team to move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality.
  • Build SOPs, and QA processes that keep accounts organized, consistent, and auditable.
  • Build a creative testing system, developing efficient ways to validate new ideas without unnecessarily increasing CAC.

Requirements

  • Meta Expertise - Deep, current expertise in Meta advertising, including account structure, Advantage+, bidding, audience strategy, CAPI, and measurement.
  • Proven experience managing high Meta budgets with full accountability for performance.
  • Active participant in the Meta media buying community with a strong pulse on emerging tactics and platform changes.
  • Track record of scaling spend while maintaining disciplined CAC and contribution margin.
  • Full Funnel Paid Ownership - Experience managing paid acquisition across Meta, Google, YouTube, and ideally any app or programmatic channels.
  • Strong understanding of how channels work independently and together, including audience overlap and channel interaction.
  • Ability to make thoughtful cross channel budget decisions and clearly articulate the rationale behind them.
  • Incrementality & Measurement - Strong understanding of incrementality testing.
  • Comfortable evaluating performance through blended efficiency and incremental impact rather than relying on last click attribution alone.
  • Brand Side Experience - Several years of in house experience owning media and being accountable for the business impact of paid acquisition.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
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6 employees (1 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.4%
Direct
46.9%
Referral
5.4%
Social
18.3%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (17% of company)
Median Tenure
0.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1