VP of Paid Media

USA (Remote)

$220K/yr – $275K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own paid media growth across major and emerging channels, driving end-to-end funnel performance from creative and targeting to landing pages and lifecycle, while establishing repeatable systems and a strong analytics backbone for profitable ROAS.

  • Growth ownership: end-to-end paid journey from ad to pipeline, not just the click.
  • Systematize expansion: build a scalable playbook for launching, scaling, and pruning channels with disciplined experiments.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Take full accountability for Clever's growth and ROAS across all paid channels—including Google, Meta, TikTok, ChatGPT Ads, and emerging channels as they mature.
  • Own the entire paid customer journey: ad creative, audience targeting, landing pages, on-page experience, lifecycle (email and SMS) follow-up, and conversion to qualified pipeline—not just the ad itself.
  • Build, test, and codify a repeatable system for launching, scaling, and pruning channels, so paid growth becomes a reliable internal advantage rather than a series of one-off wins.
  • Set the creative and testing roadmap—diagnose what's working, kill what isn't, and operate with a high cadence of disciplined experiments across ads, landers, and funnels.
  • Set the analytics and attribution standard for paid—define the KPIs, the dashboards, and the rituals that keep the team and leadership aligned on what's actually driving profitable growth.
  • Stay on the leading edge of paid channels, ad formats, and AI tooling—bring new bets to the table and have a strong opinion on which ones are worth Clever's time and dollars.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in paid marketing, with a recent track record of being close enough to the work to speak fluently about ad-level performance, account structure, and landing page diagnostics
  • Has personally managed multi million-dollar monthly paid budgets at companies where every dollar had to return a measurable, profitable outcome
  • Deep expertise in Google and Meta; strong fluency across TikTok and other emerging paid channels
  • Comfortable owning the full funnel—from ad to landing page to lifecycle—and has a portfolio of examples where they improved conversion across the entire customer experience, not just the click
  • Bias toward building systems and testing playbooks, not just running campaigns
  • AI-forward—actively using AI tooling to compound creative output, audience research, and analysis
  • Excellent communication skills, able to influence across teams and levels

Preferred

  • Real estate, fintech, or marketplace industry experience is a plus

Benefits

  • 💰 Salary: $220k-275k, OTE: $280-350k with upside potential for over performance
  • 🏥 Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • 🌴 Paid Time Off: 18 days of PTO (increases with tenure) plus 10 paid holidays
  • 📚 Professional Development: Annual budget for learning and career growth
  • 🏝️ Tenure Sabbaticals: Paid sabbaticals to celebrate major milestones
  • 🏡 Clever Product Benefit: Exclusive access to Clever homeownership perks
  • 🖥️ Work-From-Home Stipend: Support for your remote workspace
  • 💼 401(k): Retirement plan administered through Guideline
  • 👶 Parental Leave: 6–12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • 💙 Wellness Benefits: Free counseling sessions and optional weekly meditation
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Clever Real Estate

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At Clever Real Estate, we envision a world where every person makes real estate moves that bring them closer to their life's goals. To achieve that vision, we connect people with the most trustworthy advice and the best solutions for every step of their real estate journey.We've built the leading online education platform in real estate: a portfolio of four digital content brands that reach over 10 million consumers per year with tools, advice and data to help them make better decisions.And we've built a network of over 37,000 real estate professionals to help consumers take their journey with Clever offline, and reach better outcomes when they sell, buy, and move. Clever has a nearly perfect 4.9 rating on TrustPilot — and our solutions have helped people save over $210 million on real estate fees.Clever is venture-backed, profitable, and still scaling quickly. If you're looking for a challenging role with deep ownership, smart co-workers, and real-world impact, visit our careers page to see open positions and learn more: http://careers.listwithclever.com/

Founded in 2017
St Louis, Missouri, USA
162 employees (24 in marketing)
70% recommend to a friend
73% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
185.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$75.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.2%
Direct
45.8%
Referral
5.4%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~163

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
24 (15% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$15.2M
Last Raise
$2M
Series Unknown, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2023
    Series Unknown • $2M
  • Dec 2021
    Series B • $8M
  • Jun 2019
    Series A • $3.5M

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