Paid Media Specialist

Franklin, TN (Hybrid)

$50K/yr – $60K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize paid media campaigns across Google Ads, Meta Ads, and select networks, partner with creatives, and leverage AI tools to improve ROAS, while communicating results to clients.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Plan, build, and QA campaigns primarily in Google Ads and Meta Ads. Additionally, you’ll also work on YouTube TikTok, and LinkedIn campaigns for select clients.
  • Handle day-to-day optimization: find what's underperforming, propose a fix, run the test, document what happened.
  • Keep accounts clean: Using Upstream approved naming conventions, UTMs, pixels setups & conversion tracking.
  • Check budget pacing daily to ensure the clients budget is correctly utilized. Pull and maintain Looker Studio and GA4 reports that a client can actually read & wants to read.
  • Work with our creative team on briefs and creative ideas so ads go live and are created with the end user in mind.
  • Join client calls, add context where it's useful, and close out your action items
  • Use AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) for first-pass ad copy, angles, and routine work. Then always check it yourself before anything ships.

Requirements

  • 1–3 years of hands-on paid media experience in Google Ads and/or Meta Ads. Agency experience is a plus, but not required.
  • You can build a Meta or Google campaign from a brief without errors. You're past the point of needing help on every build
  • You can explain ROAS, CPA, CPM, CTR, CVR, and frequency in plain English, and you know what to do when one of them moves
  • Comfortable in Looker Studio and GA4
  • You know ad platform specs cold and don't launch campaigns with assets that break the end user experience
  • You've found and shipped optimizations that moved a campaign
  • Experience using AI tools to move faster on everyday work
  • You ask for help before a deadline slips, not after. You take feedback well and apply it the next day
  • You're a great teammate. We're not looking for the aloof genius; we're looking for someone interested in working with their coworkers to solve problems, serve our clients well, and have fun along the way

Benefits

  • $50,000–$60,000 base salary (commensurate with experience)
  • Hybrid work model — 1 day/week in our Brentwood, TN office
  • Flexible hours within a 7 am–6 pm window (Monday–Friday), capped at 40 hours/week
  • 3% company match Simple IRA plan
  • QSEHRA health reimbursement
  • 3 weeks paid vacation + 11 paid holidays (yes, including your birthday)
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Strategic digital advertising strategies. Focused on driving results for businesses & marketing director partners.

Founded in 2022
Franklin, Tennessee, USA
6 employees (3 in marketing)

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Paid Media Specialist

Upstream Digital Marketing · Franklin, TN · Hybrid