Strategist, Marketing & Strategy (Paid Media Focus)

Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

$65K/yr – $95K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own paid search and multi-platform activation with end-to-end setup, proactive optimization, and cross-team coordination to deliver accountable campaign performance.

  • Own: day-to-day SEM management, bid/budget optimization, and anomaly detection across active campaigns
  • Scale: build and launch campaigns across search, social, and display with setup, QA, and trafficking
  • Collaborate: align with organic/editorial/reporting teams and maintain logs, checklists, and governance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day SEM management: daily search term reviews, negative keyword management, bid and budget optimization, and delivery pacing across active campaigns
  • Build and launch paid campaigns across platforms (search, social, display), including ad setup and QA
  • Monitor campaign performance and flag anomalies or delivery issues, implementing approved changes with speed and accuracy
  • Maintain campaign checklists and optimization logs to ensure accountability and continuity
  • Work closely with the Paid Media Manager to ensure alignment on priorities, deadlines, and client standards
  • Track spend pacing against flight dates and budget caps across all active campaigns, flagging under- or over-delivery
  • Actively monitor platform updates, algorithm changes, policy shifts, and new ad formats across active platforms, and bring relevant opportunities or risks to the team proactively
  • Pull and organize platform data to support weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting
  • Maintain accuracy and consistency in data pulls across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and other active platforms
  • Identify patterns in performance data and surface optimizations and recommendations proactively
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Formative

Formative is a strategic talent partner connecting exceptional people with companies shaping the future of energy, infrastructure, sustainability, and the legal sector, across Asia-Pacific and beyond.Headquartered in Singapore, we specialize in placing mid-to-executive level talent across permanent, contract, and advisory roles. Our clients include global investors, developers, operators, corporates, and law firms at the forefront of the energy transition, infrastructure transformation, and legal services.In the legal sector, we recruit across both in-house legal teams, spanning a broad range of industries and private practice firms across all major practice areas.More than just recruiters, we work as long-term partners delivering talent that drives business, people, and markets forward.We are also the creators of Formative Connect, a curated online platform that links investors with developers and project owners, helping bring energy projects to life faster and smarter.Whether you're building a leadership team, scaling a project, growing a legal function, or entering a new market, let Formative help you find the people who make it happen.

Founded in 2016
Central Singapore Community Development Council, SGP
6 employees (2 in marketing)