Senior Paid Media Strategist

Overland Park, KS (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media execution across Meta, Google, YouTube, and similar channels, owning audience strategy, creative iteration, landing-page optimization, and rigorous testing to drive measurable lead and appointment outcomes.

  • Campaign strategy and execution: design, launch, and optimize multi-channel campaigns with precise naming, structure, and budgets.
  • Experimentation discipline: design tests, prioritize with leadership, and translate results into next iterations.
  • Measurement and reporting: track CPL, conversion rate, and lead quality, and share learnings across the team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Take primary responsibility for paid campaigns across Meta, Google, YouTube, and other relevant platforms .
  • Run both B2C advisor lead generation and B2B recruiting campaigns. Adjust offers, messaging, and audience strategy to the audience type.
  • Build, launch, and optimize campaigns to a high standard. Accuracy and attention to detail in naming, structure, audiences, bids, budgets, and placements.
  • Manage pacing, budget allocation, optimization, and learning phases. Make and defend spend reallocation calls across campaigns and channels.
  • Handle complex audience builds, Advantage+ versus manual structuring, conversion API setup, and cross-channel attribution decisions.
  • Design tests, prioritize them with the Director, execute them cleanly, and translate the results into the next round.
  • Run structured experiments across audiences, creative, offers, landing pages, and bid strategies .
  • Apply rigor to test design, sample size, and documentation.
  • Share what you learn from experiments so the rest of the team gets better at testing.
  • Produce your own creative variants using tools like Canva, and AI image, copy, and video tools.

Requirements

  • 4 to 7+ years of hands-on paid media or performance marketing experience with strong execution across Meta and at least one of Google or YouTube.
  • Comfort working independently in the platforms.
  • Experience producing your own creative variants using Canva and AI image, copy, and video tools, with the design sense to know what is good enough to ship.
  • Strong direct response instincts — a working understanding of consumer psychology, stages of awareness, hook design, and offer architecture. You can articulate why a piece of creative works, not just whether it tested well.
  • AI fluency in your day to day, including copy generation, audience research, image and video tools, and reporting summarization.
  • Testing discipline, including experience designing and running your own experiments .
  • Comfort with landing page tools and the full conversion path (page, lead form, CRM.)
  • Strong analytical fundamentals in GA4, Looker Studio, or equivalent.
  • Attention to detail and clear written communication.
  • A growth-oriented mindset.
  • Comfort working inside a defined operating system with clear intake, briefs, peer review, and reporting standards.

Preferred

  • Experience with financial services, insurance, or other regulated industries.
  • Familiarity with CRM and marketing automation tools such as HubSpot, Salesforce, or Marketo.
  • Experience contributing to creative briefs that performed well in market.
  • Comfort with Looker Studio dashboards or basic SQL for ad hoc analysis.
  • Prior experience mentoring or onboarding junior teammates.

Benefits

  • Energetic and fun work environment
  • A culture driven by solutions and results
  • Opportunities for growth and development
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Surpassing the traditional definition of an independent marketing organization, CreativeOne is an industry-leading diversified financial services organization focused on retirement income solutions, including annuities, investments and life insurance. Changing the scenery since 1984, CreativeOne has been providing expert advisor solutions that foreshadow regulatory change while supplementing successful independent businesses through exclusive product offerings, trend-setting lead-generation programs, and award-winning marketing services. With more than 140 dedicated employees accommodating thousands of insurance and financial professionals nationwide, CreativeOne is committed to propelling ahead of industry best practices while unifying technology to enhance advisor productivity and deliver top-notch end-consumer solutions. In addition, Client One Securities, the in-house broker dealer, and ChangePath, the turnkey asset management platform (TAMP) are extensions of our corporate value proposition. Visit www.creativeone.com for more information.

Founded in 1984
Leawood, Kansas, USA
214 employees (34 in marketing)
56% recommend to a friend
67% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
23.6%
Direct
69.2%
Referral
4.6%
Social
0.8%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~215

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
20 (9% of company)
Median Career Experience
16 years
Median Tenure
11.3 years
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