Paid Media Strategy Lead

Irving, TX (On-site)

$87K/yr – $162K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own advisory relationships and lead cross-channel paid media strategies, shaping integrated customer-led campaigns, budgets, and performance insights for client and internal teams.

  • Advise on channel mix, budget allocation, and platform choices
  • Translate data into clear narratives and actionable recommendations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Be seen as a trusted strategic advisor to internal teams and clients alike. Offer marketing insights and build arguments. Draw on Epsilon marketing services, consulting expertise, data, and technology to solve key client challenges.
  • Digital contact strategies and program planning: Develop integrated, customer-led contact strategies for personalizing at scale across Paid & Owned channels
  • Media advisor: Work with clients to determine the right mix of paid social, paid search, programmatic, display, video, and other paid digital channels to support promotional, acquisition, retention, and customer engagement strategies. Advise on paid media budget allocation, investment mix, platform selection, and channel roles to drive efficient, measurable business outcomes.
  • Platform experience: Navigate and advise across major paid media platforms, including paid social platforms, search platforms, DSPs, retail media networks, video platforms, and supporting measurement tools.
  • Prescriptive and thoughtful: Can audit paid and owned channels or campaigns to identity areas of growth and maturity.
  • Customer and market insights: Use internal and external data, industry insights, 1st and 3rd party research and a variety of quantitative tools at your disposal to become intimate with and advocate for our client’s end-customer.
  • Help clients and internal teams understand emerging paid social, search, programmatic, video, retail media, measurement, and digital marketing trends. Apply guidelines and pursue innovations that improve performance across the paid media ecosystem.
  • Performance analysis: Define campaign performance metrics and measurement plans across paid social, search, programmatic, video, display, and other paid digital programs. Manipulate, analyze, and visualize data to reveal trends in channel performance, customer behavior, and business outcomes, and identify key opportunities based on analysis.
  • Business development: Support account growth and new business development.
  • Client interface: Part of this role will involve presenting and selling ideas to our client in partnership with the account management team. High-quality presentation and idea articulation skills are required.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of experience in a paid media, digital media, or performance marketing role, preferably with a marketing agency
  • Certifications or demonstrated platform expertise across Meta Blueprint, Google Ads, Google Analytics, and relevant paid media, social, programmatic, or measurement platforms is a requirement
  • Strong knowledge of and experience with best-in-class digital strategies, standard methodologies, industry trends.
  • Experience developing digital marketing programs (brand activations, product launches, lifecycle & contact strategies, creating test plans, journey mapping, acquisition programs, digital audits, competitive & SWOT analyses etc.)
  • Experience developing and evaluating strategies across paid social, search, programmatic, display, video, mobile, and other digital channels.
  • Understanding of customer relationship marketing concepts, strategic frameworks, essential indicators, and tactical approaches to driving customer acquisition and retention.
  • Ability to extract actionable insights from multiple, large data sets, create impactful visualizations, and tell compelling stories through data.
  • Ability to translate paid media platforms, technologies, and metrics into succinct, compelling, conversational language for a variety of audiences
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to produce high-quality decks and present with confidence to senior marketing leaders.
  • Ability to manage multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced setting.

Preferred

  • Advanced certifications with any of the afore mentioned subject matter if preferred.

Benefits

  • Time to recharge: Flexible time off (FTO), 14 paid holidays, paid sick time
  • Family well-being: Parental/new child leave, childcare & elder care assistance, adoption assistance
  • Extra perks: Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), tuition assistance, commuter benefits, professional development, employee recognition, charitable donation matching, health coaching and counseling
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Epsilon Systems is a 100% employee-owned professional and technical services company founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Diego. We are dedicated to delivering high-quality products and services to defense and commercial customers worldwide, including the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, and Department of Homeland Security. Our sustained growth in size, capability, and reputation reflects our focus on customer success, our employees’ expertise, and the strength of our management team.Our business units:-Modernization & Engineering Sector: A premier NAVSEA-certified Alteration Installation Team (AIT) provider to the U.S. Navy, offering ship alteration installations, repair, technical services, and logistics support for NAVSEA, NAVAIR, Regional Maintenance Centers, and Military Sealift Command.-Ship Repair Sector: Offers comprehensive marine engineering, assessment, maintenance, and ship repair services for all classes of U.S. Navy ships. We provide the capacity and technical expertise to meet any shipboard repair or maintenance needs.-Epsilon C5I, Inc.: Specializes in Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, and Intelligence (C5I) support. Our capabilities include solutions for software and systems engineering, signal intelligence, cryptologic programs, and cybersecurity.-Advanced Products (AP): Provides design, build-to-print, assembly, testing, and integration for electrical, mechanical, and electronic systems for the U.S. Navy, foreign military sales, and commercial customers. -Technology Solutions: Develops systems for operational readiness and nuclear operations. Our Epsilon XR team specializes in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality training, simulations, and e-learning.-Mission Services: Provides secure communications, satellite systems, network operations, environmental management, fleet technical assistance, and logistics support for U.S. Navy operations.

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Paid Media Strategy Lead

Epsilon · Irving, TX · On-site