Media Buyer, Emerging Channels - Growth Marketing

New York City, NY (On-site)

$153K/yr – $200K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media growth by designing rigorous tests, optimizing campaigns, and guiding creative strategy across channels while ensuring rigorous execution and data-driven decisions.

  • Own creative strategy across channels and direct the creative team.
  • Run structured paid marketing tests and optimize performance.
  • Balance budgets, pacing, and incremental spend to hit internal KPIs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design, run, and read structured paid marketing tests on new growth channels. Optimize and monitor campaign performance by adjusting bidding strategies, audience targeting, managing budget pacing, and creative testing.
  • Support technical operations for existing/new channels i.e QA conversion mapping, ensure accurate performance links back to ad platform algorithms.
  • Manage channels against internal goals and KPIs, and adjust spend toward what's genuinely incremental
  • Own creative strategy across channels - ideate concepts, brief and direct the creative team, and tailor format and messaging (image vs. video, hook-driven vs. storytelling) to what converts best per channel

Requirements

  • 3+ years of direct, hands-on-keyboard execution experience in paid media buying across multiple platforms
  • Ability to operate independently, with strong attention to detail regarding performance and budget changes, platform-level delivery discrepancies and tracking drops,
  • Strong test-and-learn track record, data driven, and creative.
  • Bonus if you have experience with landing page testing and conversion rate optimization
  • Comfort with Claude, SQL, Posthog, and BI tools like Superset, Looker, or similar.

Preferred

  • Experience acquiring advertisers or businesses (B2B or marketplace/two-sided), not only consumers.
  • Ad-tech, DSP, or marketplace background
  • Direct experience driving ad creative strategy - you can mock up or storyboard ad concepts yourself, or have examples of ad concepts you originated that drove real performance

Benefits

  • Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Time Off: Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
  • Paid Holidays: 10 paid holidays per year
  • Paid Sick Leave: 80 hours per year
  • Equity eligible
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AppLovin

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AppLovin makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers. The company provides end-to-end software and AI solutions for businesses to reach, monetize and grow their global audiences. AppLovin is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with several offices globally.

Founded in 2012
Palo Alto, California, USA
638 employees (100 in marketing)
47% recommend to a friend
65% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.4%
Direct
61.8%
Referral
5%
Social
1.3%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~636

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
69 (11% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$5.1B
Last Raise
$3.6B
Post IPO Debt, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $3.6B
  • Feb 2024
    Post IPO Secondary
  • Aug 2023
    Post IPO Secondary

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