Paid Media Manager

Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $145K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Owns the integrated paid and organic insights narrative, sets multi-channel strategy, and leads governance over QA, SOPs, and reporting across the project.

  • Owns reporting structure and client narrative
  • Directs priorities and approves process templates and AI workflows

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Primary project contact for paid: status, recommendations, and hard questions.
  • Help represent the full project across paid, organic, editorial, and copy. Navigate overall engagement and provide holistic strategy.
  • Directs the strategist's priorities and coaches on hands-on quality.
  • Approves SOPs, templates, and AI workflows.
  • Accountable reviewer on QA exceptions.
  • Paid strategy: Sets channel mix, budget allocation, and test-and-learn roadmaps, including GEO strategy.
  • Paid strategy: Approves optimizations above the strategist's thresholds.
  • Paid strategy: Decides the response to platform changes.
  • Reporting (all-up): Owns the integrated paid and organic insights narrative and presents it to the client.
  • Reporting (all-up): Sets the report structure and what the client sees.

Requirements

  • Minimum 5+ years experience developing audience engagement and paid media marketing strategies, as well as tactical go-to-market plans, is required.
  • Experience with a range of digital media channels and familiarity with what makes each unique, how to build a multi-channel strategy, how to leverage individual platform tools, how to setup and manage paid campaigns (Meta business manager, Google stack, YouTube, LinkedIn UI, Reddit, TikTok).
  • Robust in-platform experience and demonstrated proficiency across search and social platforms including Google (YouTube, Demand Gen, Display), Meta Ads, SEM (Google and Microsoft); experience building and launching paid campaigns end-to-end across multiple platforms inclusive of ad setup, audience targeting trafficking, QA and go-live.
  • Some experience in content strategy, editorial planning, and content development (i.e. writing social posts, writing/editing blog posts, etc.) is preferred.
  • Experience playing a leading role in multi-channel paid and organic campaigns, turning insights into actionable recommendations, and integrating real-world happenings into campaign strategy.
  • Demonstrated integrated campaign thinking across channel disciplines (organic social, PR, paid media, social media, creators, bespoke content).
  • Strong business and marketing strategy skills, experience developing KPIs and measurement frameworks, competency developing data-driven stories and insights.

Preferred

  • Some experience in content strategy, editorial planning, and content development (i.e. writing social posts, writing/editing blog posts, etc.) is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package based on experience including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Formative also contributes a percentage of your salary to a 401K account that is 100% vested.
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Formative

Formative is a strategic talent partner connecting exceptional people with companies shaping the future of energy, infrastructure, sustainability, and the legal sector, across Asia-Pacific and beyond.Headquartered in Singapore, we specialize in placing mid-to-executive level talent across permanent, contract, and advisory roles. Our clients include global investors, developers, operators, corporates, and law firms at the forefront of the energy transition, infrastructure transformation, and legal services.In the legal sector, we recruit across both in-house legal teams, spanning a broad range of industries and private practice firms across all major practice areas.More than just recruiters, we work as long-term partners delivering talent that drives business, people, and markets forward.We are also the creators of Formative Connect, a curated online platform that links investors with developers and project owners, helping bring energy projects to life faster and smarter.Whether you're building a leadership team, scaling a project, growing a legal function, or entering a new market, let Formative help you find the people who make it happen.

Founded in 2016
Central Singapore Community Development Council, SGP
6 employees (2 in marketing)

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$85K/yr – $145K/yr

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Paid Media Manager

Formative · Seattle, WA · Hybrid