Paid Search & Social Strategist

Portland, ME (Hybrid)

$60K/yr – $70K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize paid search and social campaigns, translate performance data into actionable insights, and collaborate with the team to align with broader strategy.

  • Lead campaigns across Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, and Reddit to drive performance
  • Turn data into insights, hypotheses, and next steps for continual optimization
  • Support onboarding and cross-team mentoring as the search team grows

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build, execute, manage, and optimize paid search campaigns across Google Ads and peripheral search platforms as needed
  • Build, execute, manage, and optimize social campaigns across major platforms such as Meta, TikTok, and Reddit
  • Analyze performance data regularly and translate it into clear insights, hypotheses, and next steps
  • Support ongoing media spend actualization and optimization
  • Act as a “boots-on-the-ground” search expert, proactively flagging opportunities, risks, and performance shifts
  • Collaborate with media strategists and account leads to ensure search and social approach aligns with broader channel strategy
  • Support reporting and performance storytelling—helping explain what’s happening and why it matters
  • Participate in regular check-ins with leadership to review monthly and quarterly trends across accounts
  • Assist with onboarding and mentoring newer team members as the search team grows
  • Support projects beyond your core accounts when needed—we operate as one team, not silos

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in a paid search, SEM, biddable media, or marketing analyst role in an advertising agency
  • Hands-on experience managing Google Ads, and social for primary platforms (Meta & TikTok Ads)
  • Comfort working in GA4, executing complex tagging/event tracking, and connecting platform performance to on-site behavior
  • Strong working knowledge of Excel and Google Sheets for analysis, pacing, and reporting
  • A genuine curiosity about performance. You don’t just look at numbers you interrogate them
  • Interest in media trends, business, and how people actually search and make decisions
  • Google Ads and/or Microsoft Advertising certifications are a plus
  • Previous exposure to SEO or content strategy is helpful, but not required as campfire does not offer organic search services.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with three days in our Portland, ME office (T-TH) with remote or in-office Mondays/Fridays
  • Flexible PTO and company holidays, including a paid week off between Christmas and New Year’s
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Paid volunteer time to support causes you care about
  • Profit-sharing opportunities based on agency performance
  • Parental leave and flexible schedules for caregivers
  • A culture that values people first—not just performance metrics
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Campfire

Campfire is the AI-native ERP for mid-size and enterprise companies to close fast and scale faster. Features include a powerful general ledger, invoicing, billing, revenue accounting and reporting, financial statements, AI-powered conversational reporting, and automated accounting workflows such as bank reconciliation. The product is natively integrated with industry leading solutions such as Ramp, Rippling, Salesforce, and has over 100+ API endpoints to build custom integrations and workflows. Campfire's customers range from 50 to 5,000 employees with a variety of business models including SaaS, usage, consulting and transactions including customers such as Replit and Advisor360.The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Accel, Foundation Capital, Y Combinator and Capital49 (Airwallex).

Salaries

Posted range

$60K/yr – $70K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (5% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
28.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$253K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31%
Direct
55.3%
Referral
7.1%
Social
4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~71
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Paid Search & Social Strategist

Campfire · Portland, ME · Hybrid