Senior Manager, Paid Acquisition

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize paid social strategy across Meta, Google, and emerging channels; lead experimentation, creative collaboration, and performance analysis to drive new acquisition and full-funnel growth.

  • Own end-to-end paid media initiatives
  • Collaborate with creative and agencies to iterate high-performing assets

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • - Diagnose performance fluctuations and pinpoint the channel and business-level factors driving them.
  • - Partner with the creative teams and external agencies to rapidly produce high-performing video, UGC, influencer, and static assets.
  • - Stay current on platform updates, algorithm shifts, and industry trends to keep our paid social strategy ahead of the curve.
  • - Drive new acquisition and full-funnel growth ideas, playing an active role in shaping and running experiments.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of hands-on experience scaling paid social and paid search at a D2C startup, ideally managing $1M+ monthly budgets.
  • A track record of driving efficient growth (CAC, ROI, LTV) while scaling spend.
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to handle multiple initiatives at the same time.
  • Comfort with tactical execution and strategic thinking—you can set the plan and run it yourself.
  • Sharp communicator, able to flag risks and opportunities to internal stakeholders and manage day-to-day agency relationships.
  • High attention to detail, with a habit of catching and preventing errors before they become problems.
  • Experience managing external creative agencies, briefing them effectively, and providing sharp, actionable feedback that helps them iterate toward higher-performing ads.
  • Ruthlessly analytical. You dig into performance data to uncover insights, and know exactly which levers to pull to optimize campaigns at scale.
  • Able to translate data into a clear narrative, making it actionable for both day-to-day decisions and broader team alignment.

Preferred

  • You’ve worked in EdTech, healthcare, or another mission-driven B2C industry
  • You geek out over testing frameworks, UGC trends, and performance marketing communities

Benefits

  • Meaningful Equity Stake
  • Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options
  • 401(k)
  • FSA, HSA and commuter benefits
  • Open vacation policy, including:
  • Guidance of 15 days PTO annually
  • Stepful closed the last week of December
  • 15 work-from-anywhere days
  • 10 public holidays observed for 2025
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