Paid Media Manager

Lombard, IL (Remote)

$60K/yr – $75K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize BTC paid media programs across Meta, Google, and YouTube, guiding strategy, audience targeting, creative direction, and measurement to drive ticket sales, registrations, and client outcomes.

  • Lead cross-channel planning and performance reporting
  • Align creative and targeting with brand voice and business goals

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute paid media strategies across Meta (Facebook & Instagram Ads), Google Ads, YouTube, and other relevant platforms; manage campaigns supporting BTC initiatives, live-event ticket sales, educational programs, lead generation, and client marketing objectives; manage the full campaign lifecycle: planning, setup, launch, monitoring, optimization, and reporting; determine the appropriate campaign structure, platform mix, targeting strategy, and budget allocation for each initiative; partner with the Editorial team on copy and captions, ensuring written content reflects BTC's brand voice and editorial standards before it publishes.
  • Build audience segments using demographics, interests, behaviors, customer data, and campaign objectives; create and manage custom audiences, lookalike audiences, retargeting groups, and prospecting strategies; tailor messaging based on where audiences sit in the customer journey, and refine targeting using campaign data.
  • Drive ticket sales, registrations, and attendance for BTC events and educational experiences; adapt campaigns across the promotional cycle — from awareness and early-bird sales to urgency and last-chance messaging; monitor ticket-sales pacing and adjust budgets, audiences, and messaging based on performance.
  • Manage paid campaigns for professional beauty brands with distinct audiences, voices, visual identities, and objectives; learn each client’s positioning, products, and target customer, adapting strategy rather than applying one approach across accounts; maintain clear separation between client audiences, assets, budgets, reporting, and objectives; collaborate with account management and sales teams, and clearly communicate recommendations and results to internal stakeholders.
  • Translate performance goals and audience insights into clear creative direction for the Graphic Designer and Social team; provide direction on copy, calls to action, formats, hooks, and creative variations, ensuring creative fits the audience, platform, and brand voice; develop testing plans and identify when creative fatigue requires new assets or a strategic shift.
  • Monitor metrics including reach, impressions, CTR, CPC, CPL, CPA, ROAS, and conversion rate; build clear, accurate, actionable reports that look beyond surface metrics to explain performance; track budgets, keep campaigns within approved spend, and proactively flag pacing and tracking issues; coordinate implementation of pixels, conversion events, and UTMs across internal teams and partners.
  • Stay current on platform updates, privacy changes, and targeting limitations, and evaluate new formats and tools; educate internal teams on meaningful changes to paid media capabilities and metrics.

Requirements

  • Three or more years of hands-on paid media experience in an agency, multi-brand, media, event, or similarly fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated, hands-on experience managing and optimizing campaigns in Meta Ads Manager (Facebook & Instagram) AND Google Ads — this is required.
  • Experience creating campaigns for multiple audiences, brands, or clients simultaneously.
  • Proven ability to develop conversion-focused campaigns, not just awareness or engagement.
  • Experience supporting ticket sales, event registrations, e-commerce, lead generation, or other direct-response objectives.
  • Strong grasp of audience segmentation, retargeting, lookalike audiences, and customer-funnel strategy.
  • Ability to manage and optimize budgets and interpret data into clear recommendations.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, exceptional attention to detail, and organizational skills.
  • Comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.
  • Able to quickly learn and accurately represent different brands, products, and voices.

Preferred

  • Comfortable contributing to creative development — selecting imagery or video, writing or refining ad copy, and developing effective calls to action.
  • Experience promoting live events, conferences, ticketed experiences, or educational programs.
  • Agency experience or managing paid media for a diverse portfolio of clients.
  • Experience marketing to professional or trade audiences; familiarity with the professional beauty, salon, or hairstylist community.
  • Experience with HubSpot, Shopify, Google Analytics, Looker Studio, or similar reporting and CRM platforms.
  • Experience reviewing landing-page performance and identifying conversion opportunities.
  • Familiarity with TikTok Ads or Pinterest Ads.

Benefits

  • Salary Range: $60,000–$75,000 annually; final compensation will depend on experience, qualifications, and demonstrated paid media expertise.
  • Competitive Health / Dental / Vision Benefits options*
  • Retirement Benefits with a company match option*
  • Paid Vacation & Holidays
  • Collaborative, creative, and entrepreneurial team environment
  • Remote / Work from home
  • * options available to eligible employees
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Behindthechair.com is the global leader in the salon media world, connecting the professional hair industry to the latest trends, education, and inspiration.We work with the world’s top celebrity stylists and colorists—the creators behind the hair trends worn by millions worldwide. With over 1 million monthly website visitors who read over 2 million pages of haircutting, styling and hair color trend content, Behindthechair.com is the largest online destination for hairdressers across the globe.We dominate social media with a combined community of over:• 2.6 million Instagram followers• 1.7 million Facebook followers• 150,000 YouTube subscribers• 220,000 TikTok followersThrough BTC University (btcuniversity.com), we’ve delivered over 180,000 online classes in more than 80 countries in the past year, providing world-class education to hairdressers everywhere.We are also the creators of the @oneshothairawards, the world’s largest and most prestigious hair awards program, with over 1.4 million entries in just five years.Our BTC Show and BTC On Tour events bring together thousands of hairdressers for non-stop education from the industry’s biggest names. With over 3,200 attendees, the BTC Show is the largest hair event of the year, offering back-to-back, 45-minute look-and-learn presentations by top platform artists and influencers.For 25 years, our mission has been simple: to make the lives of hairdressers better. Powered by a dedicated team of 35 passionate professionals, we live by the motto: “Good is the enemy of great.”

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42 employees (21 in marketing)
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48% CEO approval

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (40% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
89K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$47
Traffic Source Mix
Search
51.2%
Direct
18%
Referral
5.1%
Social
7.8%
Paid
7.2%

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Paid Media Manager

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