Senior Lead Media Buyer

USA (On-site)

$132K/yr – $194K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end paid media strategy, governance, and optimization for a seven-figure B2B portfolio across Google, LinkedIn, and ABM platforms, coordinating audience, budget, and measurement to drive pipeline and revenue.

  • Own architecture, pacing, and optimization across paid media channels to unify campaigns.
  • Drive governance, experimentation, and measurement linking platform performance to CRM and pipeline.
  • Influence senior stakeholders and partner ecosystems to improve media effectiveness and roadmaps.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set the enterprise approach for paid search, paid social and ABM media, and contribute media expertise to functional campaign, demand-generation and measurement strategy.
  • Own the architecture and performance of a seven-figure annual media portfolio across Google Search, Display, YouTube and Performance Max, LinkedIn, Demandbase and other relevant channels.
  • Integrate audiences, account targeting, message sequencing, frequency and budget allocation across platforms so channels operate as one coordinated system.
  • Exercise independent judgment on pacing and reallocation across platforms, campaigns and tactics; balance short-term signals with downstream conversion evidence and document material investment decisions.
  • Diagnose and resolve unique, high-complexity performance or measurement issues whose impact extends across campaigns, functions or business priorities.
  • Anticipate changes in media platforms, auction dynamics, privacy, brand safety and regulation; assess business impact and recommend portfolio, process or capability improvements.
  • Establish governance and best practices for account structure, taxonomy, audience and keyword hygiene, exclusions, frequency, quality controls and audit-ready documentation.
  • Lead a disciplined experimentation roadmap across bidding, audiences, offers, creative, landing experiences and formats, including test design, holdouts, interpretation and scaled adoption of findings.
  • Advise senior marketing stakeholders on media effectiveness, tradeoffs and investment scenarios by connecting platform performance to CRM, pipeline and revenue outcomes.
  • Lead high-visibility, cross-functional initiatives with Creative, Marketing Operations, Field Marketing, Finance and Analytics to improve media effectiveness and measurement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, or a related area.
  • 8+ years of experience buying B2B paid media in-house or at an agency, with direct account ownership in Google Ads and LinkedIn Campaign Manager. Demandbase or comparable ABM platform experience also required.
  • Demonstrated management of at least a seven-figure annual media budget, with personal responsibility for pacing and reallocation decisions
  • Strong analytical skills: comfortable in platform reporting, spreadsheet modeling and a BI or CRM dashboard, and able to explain a performance shift in terms of its underlying driver.
  • Comfort operating in a long, considered B2B sales cycle where the meaningful conversion happens weeks after the click and the platform's own optimization signal is thin.
  • Collaboration with creative teams on performance creative, and with operations teams on lead flow.
  • Ability to synthesize market data and analyze business performance metrics, KPIs, and similar.

Preferred

  • Master’s degree or equivalent.
  • 10+ years of experience with buying B2B media
  • Extensive experience in the technology industry, demonstrating a deep understanding of market dynamics, customer needs, and industry trends.
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Founded in 1968
Monroe, Louisiana, USA
50K employees (627 in marketing)

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$132K/yr – $194K/yr

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Total Funding
$2.4B
Last Raise
$425M
Post IPO Debt, 6 months ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $425M
  • Aug 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $2B
  • May 2023
    Post IPO Equity

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23.6%
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Referral
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Social
6%
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1.7%

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Senior Lead Media Buyer

Lumen Technologies · USA · On-site