Senior Paid Media Manager

Grand Rapids, MI (On-site)

$65K/yr – $85K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

Job Summary

Own paid social growth for client portfolios across Meta and LinkedIn, lead testing roadmaps and full-funnel strategies, and translate performance data into actionable creative and targeting decisions.

  • Own testing roadmaps and audience/creative strategies leading to measurable revenue growth
  • Build dashboards and knowledge bases to scale insights across the team
  • Maintain client communication and reporting rhythms to drive clear decisions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive client growth across paid channels, primarily Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads, owning structure, targeting, budgets, pacing, and optimization
  • Manage a portfolio of client accounts totaling more than $2M in combined annual spend, each with its own growth targets and scaling plans
  • Own client communication for paid performance: priorities, results, insights, and recommendations tied to revenue and pipeline
  • Build and manage testing roadmaps across audiences, creative angles, formats, placements, and landing page hypotheses, designed to compound performance over time
  • Build performance dashboards with Claude Code, connecting ad platform and analytics APIs, tailored to client growth goals and internal decision-making
  • Build and maintain Claude knowledge bases so client context, learnings, and performance history scale across the team
  • Own weekly and monthly reporting rhythms, including narrative summaries: what changed, what we learned, and what we are testing next
  • Develop full-funnel audience strategies for prospecting and retargeting, aligned to funnel stage, offer, and sales cycle
  • Collaborate with writers, photographers, designers, and the Creative Director to develop clear briefs, plan iteration cycles, and translate performance insights into stronger creative
  • Monitor spend and performance trends daily, and catch issues before clients do

Requirements

  • 5+ years in paid social or performance marketing, with hands-on ownership of growth outcomes
  • Strong experience managing Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads budgets, optimization, and reporting
  • Hands-on Claude experience, including building knowledge bases and using Claude Code for dashboards and reporting workflows
  • Genuine interest in technical products and the people who build them (if this isn't you, please don't apply)
  • Proactive and resourceful: you chase down the tracking gap, the client answer, or the missing asset without being asked
  • Precise: senior enough to work independently and ship client-ready work with minimal revision
  • You read performance data and turn it into creative and audience decisions, and your portfolio shows it
  • Strong creative judgment: you understand the design trends, patterns, and qualitative properties that drive performance, and you can look at an ad and say, this is a high performer, and here is why
  • Confident leading strategy discussions with clients and creatives alike
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced agency environment, moving between gear manufacturers, SaaS teams, and ecommerce brands in the same day

Preferred

  • Organic social strategy and management experience
  • Paid search experience (Google Ads)
  • LinkedIn outbound messaging automation and list building experience
  • HubSpot, Webflow, or other CRM and landing page tools
  • Meta Ads Manager and Business Manager
  • LinkedIn Campaign Manager
  • Claude
  • Claude Code
  • Google Analytics (GA4)
  • Google Tag Manager

Benefits

  • PTO: Unlimited after 6 months
  • Benefits: Annual bonus eligibility and 401k match. Health benefits are not offered at this time.
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Montgomery Code is an embedded product marketing studio for technical teams.As an extension of your team, we plan, launch, and scale. Our work spans positioning and messaging, brand and logo design, and website builds. We run product launches, produce content and campaigns on-site and in our Midwest production studio, and drive conversions. Our hands-on, collaborative model integrates with your workflows, delivering the focus of an in-house team and the expertise of senior operators without the overhead.

Founded in 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
6 employees (5 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$65K/yr – $85K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (67% of company)
Median Tenure
2.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.4%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
13.2%
Social
7.3%
Paid
1.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6
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Senior Paid Media Manager

Montgomery Code · Grand Rapids, MI · On-site