Performance Marketing Manager - Amazon (DSP + Ads) & Meta

USA (Remote)

$90K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own paid acquisition across Amazon and Meta for a fast-moving Kindle Unlimited catalog, owning audience setup, creative testing, and spend pacing with data-driven reallocation.

  • Amazon: manage Sponsored Products/Brands and DSP audiences with cost controls.
  • Meta: drive top-of-funnel demand for new releases and box sets with a structured testing cadence.
  • Creative + analytics: shape test concepts, produce rapid variations, and steer the designer for fast iteration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage Amazon Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands: keyword and product/ASIN targeting, structured around series and competitor titles.
  • Run our Amazon DSP seat: audience construction (detail-page retargeting, competitor-ASIN viewers, in-market and lookalike segments), Kindle e-reader/on-device placements, pacing, frequency capping, and creative rotation — with tight cost control on premium inventory.
  • Plan and run Meta campaigns for series starters and box sets, including audience structure, creative testing cadence, and scaling.
  • Drive ad creative: shape the concepts and hooks, produce quick variations yourself (including with AI tools) for fast testing, and direct our designer for the polished assets. Run a disciplined, always-on testing program.
  • Coordinate spend with our release calendar (we ship multiple titles a month) and protect the algorithmic momentum on proven titles.
  • Report honestly on what's working and what isn't, and reallocate accordingly.

Requirements

  • 3+ years running direct-response paid acquisition with real, hands-on scaling experience on Meta.
  • Genuine hands-on Amazon DSP experience — you've built audiences and campaigns yourself, not watched an account manager do it.
  • Strong analytical instincts: comfortable living in spreadsheets, fluent in marginal return, and honest about what the data does and doesn't show.
  • A self-directed operator who spots a problem in the numbers and acts before being asked.
  • Creative-capable: you can turn around your own ad-creative variations for testing (AI tools are a real plus) and direct a designer for finished assets. You don't need to be a designer — but you do need strong creative judgment and the ability to move fast on test creative.
  • The intellectual honesty to run experiments, sit with ambiguous results, and follow the evidence.

Preferred

  • Experience marketing books — especially genre fiction in the Kindle Unlimited ecosystem.
  • Amazon Sponsored Products / Sponsored Brands experience and familiarity with Kindle e-reader placements.
  • Understanding of series-based publishing, launch strategy, and read-through economics.
  • Familiarity with Amazon Attribution, the Brand Referral Bonus, and tools like PixelMe.
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Emston Media

Emston Media is a publishing company in the United States and the people behind a multitude of Amazon best-selling authors. Our team helps plot, write or publish countless stories of many genres, creating a bookshelf of new, best-selling reads. Whether it's one to make you laugh, shed a tear, or feel inspired, we're proud to put our name behind your next undiscovered gem.We're more than just a publishing company. We're a team of individuals who are passionate about what we do. From our creative team to our publishing team, and everyone in between, our team works hard to make words come alive.We love good stories, so we hope you discover your next one with us.

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