Paid Media Manager

Austin, TX (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $120K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own end to end paid media for Sock Club's B2B growth across search, shopping, and social, with a focus on ROAS, lead quality, and funnel attribution; lead strategy and forecasting are core workstreams.

  • Own budgets, pacing, and forecasting across paid channels
  • Drive lead quality from paid media and align with sales

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Plan, build, launch, and optimize paid search and shopping across Google Ads and Microsoft (Bing) Ads, including Search, Shopping, Performance Max, and product feed health.
  • Run paid social on LinkedIn and Meta, including B2B audience and account targeting across Sock Club's segments and buyer personas.
  • Lead keyword strategy across research, expansion, gap analysis, match types, negative lists, and ongoing reconciliation against performance.
  • Forecast and pace spend across monthly and quarterly budgets, with KPI outlooks, per-channel seasonality projections, and budget reallocation recommendations.
  • Manage bids, targets, and channel mix against the primary KPIs: ROAS and blended ROAS, CAC, and CPL.
  • Grow contacts and MQLs from paid while improving lead quality (Lead Fit Score, MQL-to-SQL rate), and track paid leads from NQ through SQL into qualified pipeline with sales and marketing ops.
  • Own conversion tracking and attribution end to end, including GA4 events, platform tags, offline conversion imports from HubSpot, and value-based bidding signals, and reconcile in-platform numbers against the CRM as the source of truth.
  • Build and test paid landing pages and forms in Heyflow, run conversion audits, and maintain a testing roadmap of A/B tests across ads, pages, and forms.
  • Manage Sock Club's supplier presence and paid placements on promotional-products platforms (SAGE, ESP, ASI, CommonSKU) and track each one's pipeline contribution.
  • Report paid performance to leadership with Direct and Distributor results segmented, and coordinate with email, SEO, events, content, and sales so campaigns, keywords, and shared audiences stay aligned.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of hands-on experience managing B2B paid media in-house or at an agency, with primary responsibility for paid search and paid social.
  • Hands-on expertise in Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, and Meta, plus working proficiency in Microsoft (Bing) Ads.
  • Direct experience running Google Shopping and Performance Max, including product feed management.
  • A record of managing paid budgets to ROAS, CAC, and CPL targets while improving downstream lead quality, such as MQL-to-SQL conversion and lead fit.
  • Experience implementing conversion tracking, including GA4 events and offline conversion imports from a CRM.
  • Experience building and maintaining spend-pacing and forecasting models in spreadsheets, including seasonality assumptions and scenario levers.
  • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to independently pull and analyze performance data in GA4 and a BI platform without waiting on someone else to build a report.
  • Direct experience with landing page optimization, conversion rate optimization, and A/B testing, including sample size and statistical significance.
  • Experience marketing a considered, multi-stage B2B purchase, where lead quality matters more than raw volume.
  • Solid grasp of attribution in a multi-touch B2B funnel, including the difference between in-platform conversions and CRM-verified outcomes and where a channel is likely over- or under-credited.

Preferred

  • Fluent across multiple data streams. You can line up what GA4, the CRM, and the ad platforms are telling you, trust the right source when they disagree, and flag what looks off instead of quietly working around it.
  • Proactive. You catch problems in pacing, tracking, or performance before anyone asks and bring a proposed fix with the flag.
  • Curious about the business. You learn how our buyers and distributors actually purchase and use that to shape targeting and messaging.
  • A strong communicator and highly organized. You can keep multiple campaigns, budgets, and pacing threads moving without dropping details, and explain performance and tradeoffs clearly to people who are not paid media specialists.
  • Uses AI daily and well. You lean on it for research, analysis, copy, and reporting, and you know where it speeds you up and where it needs checking.
  • Stays current on platform changes across every network we run, including bidding, automation, policy, and measurement, and recommends how we should adapt.
  • Familiar with SEO fundamentals, a plus but not required. Paid and organic keyword strategy are run in step here, so knowing how organic search works helps keep the two aligned.
  • A bachelor's degree is preferred but not required. Equivalent hands-on experience is welcome.
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Sock Club

3.1 Glassdoor

Sock Club is the #1 designer and manufacturer of custom socks. At Sock Club, we empower companies and organizations to promote their brand in a creative and tangible way with custom socks. Socks are perfect for promotional items, corporate gifts, special events and of course, company swag. We provide complimentary design support and a standard turnaround time of 10 business days or fewer for our American-made socks.We create an exceptional quality product that is ethically produced and competitively priced for clients like Amazon, Slack, American Airlines, SXSW, NBC, and many more!Interested in custom socks? Our in-house design team is ready to help you bring your sock vision to life - and fast! Send us your logo and let them design your socks for free!Want to design your own sock? We can send you a design template with all of the tools you need to design your dream sock. Our designers are a resource for you throughout the process and are more than happy to assist you with your design for no additional charge.Want socks for you and your loved ones? The same awesome team also runs our subscription service. This is where our designers compete to deliver you the best sock experience each month! Email us at Custom@sockclub.com or give us a call at 512-981-6437.

Founded in 2012
Austin, Texas, USA
69 employees (21 in marketing)
53% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$90K/yr – $120K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($105K) is 14% above the median base salary for Paid Media Manager roles in the United States ($92K).

Paid Media Manager median pay in the United States

$93K/yr

Most pay falls between $80K and $108K. Based on 150 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (10% of company)
Median Tenure
3.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
525.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
16.8%
Direct
59.4%
Referral
12.1%
Social
11.1%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~69
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Paid Media Manager

Sock Club · Austin, TX · Hybrid