Media Buyer

Chicago, IL (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end paid acquisition engine for a FinPub brand, from scratch to scale, with strict compliance and cross-channel optimization.

  • Own the end-to-end paid acquisition engine across Google, Bing, Taboola, and paid social.
  • Must-have: 3–5+ years in paid media buying with direct FinPub experience.
  • Standout: Proven ability to launch accounts from scratch in regulated verticals and manage compliance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Google Ads accounts
  • Microsoft/Bing Ads accounts
  • Taboola accounts
  • Paid social ad accounts
  • AdSense (if applicable)
  • Set up pixels, tracking, analytics, and attribution
  • Develop required social profiles for platform trust and approval
  • Partner with internal team to build and optimize landing pages
  • Create scalable acquisition strategy aligned with FinPub economics
  • Design compliant ad angles that convert without triggering account issues
  • Build structured testing roadmap (creative, audience, funnel)
  • Manage budgets and ROAS targets
  • Operate within financial marketing and platform policy constraints
  • Protect account health and longevity
  • Proactively mitigate suspension risk
  • Monitor CTR, CPC, CVR, CPA, LTV
  • Iterate quickly and intelligently
  • Deliver consistent reporting and strategic insights to leadership
  • This is not a plug-into-an-existing-team role.
  • You will design and build the entire paid acquisition engine.

Requirements

  • 3–5+ years in paid media buying
  • Direct experience in: Financial publishing (strongly preferred)
  • Financial services, trading, crypto, or other regulated verticals
  • Proven experience launching ad accounts from scratch
  • Hands-on experience with Google, Bing, Taboola, and paid social
  • Strong understanding of compliance issues in FinPub
  • Analytical, autonomous, and comfortable building systems independently
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Investing Media Solutions, LLC

Investing Media Solutions (IMS) is a premium financial media company reaching millions of influential, financially-fluent readers who are seeking out actionable editorial perspective across the digital media ecosystem. As a trusted media partner for major advertisers, IMS creates custom, integrated, digital advertising solutions which reach and engage audiences within the country's largest exclusively managed publisher group.

Founded in 2011
Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 employees (3 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
705
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.3%
Direct
42%
Referral
12.7%
Social
10%
Paid
1.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~15

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (20% of company)