Senior Manager, Paid Media

Florida, NY (Remote)

$125K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and lead integrated paid media programs across search and social, from strategy and planning through to creative partnerships and measurement, while maintaining risk-aware, compliant execution.

  • Owns end-to-end paid media planning, budgeting, and optimization.
  • Leads cross-functional collaboration with creative, operations, and compliance to drive performance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Paid Media Strategy & Planning - Develop integrated paid search and social strategies aligned to business priorities, audiences, funnel stages, geographies, budgets, and success measures. Recommend channel mix, investment levels, campaign sequencing, and forecasts grounded in opportunity and performance data.
  • Campaign Build, Buying & Platform Ownership - Build, traffic, launch, and quality-check campaigns across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta, LinkedIn, and other approved platforms. Own campaign structure, keywords, audiences, targeting, bids, exclusions, naming conventions, UTMs, and platform settings so execution is accurate, scalable, and well controlled.
  • Optimization & Experimentation - Monitor performance closely and make disciplined adjustments to bids, budgets, keywords, search terms, audiences, placements, creative rotation, and landing-page strategy. Build a continuous testing roadmap that improves conversion, acquisition economics, and the quality of customers and leads generated.
  • Budget, Pacing & Forecasting - Manage daily and monthly pacing, forecast spend and outcomes, identify risks early, and recommend reallocations across channels and campaigns. Maintain precise visibility into committed, actual, and projected media investment in partnership with Marketing Operations and Finance.
  • Measurement, Attribution & Insight - Partner with Marketing Operations and cross-functionally to ensure conversion tracking, UTMs, audience logic, and reporting are reliable. Analyze funnel performance, CPL, CAC, ROAS, conversion quality, and other business outcomes; translate findings into clear actions for leadership and channel partners.
  • Creative & Cross-Functional Partnership - Brief Creative on channel needs, provide evidence-based feedback, and identify the messages, formats, and assets required to improve results. Partner with Social, CRM, web, product, sales, and business-line teams so campaigns, landing experiences, lead handling, and measurement work as one connected system.
  • Mission, Risk & Responsible Media - Apply our mission and values to media choices while following bank policies, privacy requirements, platform rules, fair-lending considerations, and brand-safety standards. Partner with Compliance, Legal, IT, and subject-matter experts so targeting, claims, disclosures, data use, and campaigns are accurate, approved, secure, and responsible.

Requirements

  • Experience & Education - You have 5+ years of progressive paid media experience, including direct ownership of paid search and paid social strategy, buying, execution, and optimization in an agency, in-house team, or both. You have a bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, business, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
  • Paid Search Expertise - You bring advanced, hands-on command of Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, including campaign architecture, keyword strategy, match types, search-query analysis, negative keywords, bidding, quality signals, extensions, and conversion optimization.
  • Paid Social Expertise - You have deep experience with Meta Ads Manager and hands-on experience with LinkedIn and other relevant platforms. You understand audience strategy, prospecting, retargeting, creative formats, platform learning, and the differences between lead-generation and conversion objectives.
  • Analytical & Financial Acumen - You are highly quantitative and comfortable managing budgets, forecasting outcomes, evaluating acquisition economics, and diagnosing performance. You can distinguish signal from noise and communicate what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.
  • Measurement & Marketing Technology - You are proficient with platform reporting, GA4, UTMs, conversion tracking, Excel, and dashboard tools, and comfortable partnering on pixels, tags, CRM data, Salesforce, and offline conversion feedback. Google Ads and Meta certifications are valued.
  • Testing & Performance Mindset - You build structured tests with clear hypotheses, success criteria, and learning agendas. You balance short-term optimization with longer-term learning and know how creative, audience, offer, landing page, and lead follow-up combine to determine performance.
  • About Banking, Fintech & Regulated-Industry Acumen - Experience in banking, fintech, lending, or another regulated category is valued but not required. You learn complex products quickly and work effectively with Compliance and subject-matter experts to produce supportable, responsible campaigns.
  • Ownership, Communication & Collaboration - You are a disciplined self-starter who combines platform fluency with strategic judgment. You manage details without losing the business objective, communicate clearly with senior leaders and specialists, and thrive in a fast-moving, high-accountability environment.

Preferred

  • Banking, Fintech & Regulated-Industry Acumen - Experience in banking, fintech, lending, or another regulated category is valued but not required. You learn complex products quickly and work effectively with Compliance and subject-matter experts to produce supportable, responsible campaigns.
  • Ownership, Communication & Collaboration - You are a disciplined self-starter who combines platform fluency with strategic judgment. You manage details without losing the business objective, communicate clearly with senior leaders and specialists, and thrive in a fast-moving, high-accountability environment.

Benefits

  • Health Coverage — 100% employer-paid for employees; employer contribution for dependents by Us
  • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Free Telemedicine access via Teladoc
  • 401(k) with 6% Employer Match — No Vesting Period.
  • Employee Stock Options
  • Exclusive Employee Banking Perks
  • 0% Financing for Employee Solar Loans
  • Employee Only Mortgage Product with exclusive interest rates and terms.
  • 0% Financing for Eligible Electric Vehicles (EVs)
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The world's first FDIC insured bank founded to combat the climate crisis. Climate First Bank offer a range of business and personal banking products.

Founded in 2020
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
136 employees
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Marketing Team

Median Tenure
2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$76M
Last Raise
$30M
Debt Financing, 5 months ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2025
    Debt Financing • $30M
  • Jul 2025
    Series Unknown • $46M
  • Apr 2021
    Series Unknown

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
46.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$11.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
18.6%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
4.4%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.6%

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Current headcount: ~136

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