Senior Paid Social Buyer

Summary

Join CTC as a Senior Paid Social Buyer and become an expert in Meta advertising. You will collaborate with clients, analyze data, and develop successful social media campaigns. Responsibilities include creating data-informed strategies, conducting A/B testing, and providing regular client updates. You will also mentor junior team members and contribute to the overall success of the agency. The ideal candidate possesses 2-4 years of paid media experience managing budgets of $350,000+, proficiency in Google Sheets, and exceptional communication skills. CTC offers a competitive salary, bonus structure, and comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• You are committed to making decisions informed by research
• Your customer service is referenced as the bar that others strive to emulate
• You take pride in arriving to meetings prepared with insight to contribute
• You organize your time and say “no” appropriately so that you can attend to what is most critical
• You are committed to approaching challenge & failure with curiosity about how to improve
• Your word is trustworthy; you do what you say you will
• You are passionate about building brands for the next generation
• You gather context ahead of meetings so that you arrive prepared with insight and input
• You clearly articulate your expertise so that even a beginner can understand the concept
• You are in the habit of documenting and reporting your work
• You seek opportunities to refine your skills without being prompted
• You desire to inspire others with your excellence and expertise
• You are willing to put in the reps to be an expert in your domain
• You resist the temptation to play victim; instead, you take 100% ownership over outcomes
• 2-4 years of paid media experience managing budgets of $350,000+
• Proficiency in Google Sheets
• Ability to forecast budgets based on historical data & client goals
• Must have a unique combination of humility (willing to do the dirty work) and ambition (vision for what your future holds)
• We value your time, but as an agency sometimes you may be required to work on weekends or after hours
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks with great attention to detail
• Ability to complete short-term and long-term goals in a proper manner
• An insatiable curiosity, and an inability to leave a problem alone until you’ve found one or many different potential solutions
• A desire to take risks - but only after carefully examining the calculus and determining that your chosen course of action is most effective

Responsibilities

• Analyze historical data, identify trends, and then use that information to guide your clients and team to build successful campaigns
• Make data-informed bets on targeting, messaging, and optimizing campaigns to create the best possible outcome for your clients
• Conduct multivariate tests to determine the best-performing creative and target audiences to will scale client accounts, and take ownership of finding solutions when a bet does not go as planned
• Establish trusting relationships and providing weekly updates to clients, as their primary point of contact
• You’re willing to learn, and you stay on the frontier of marketing strategy & technology
• In an ever-changing digital marketing landscape, you constantly adapt and evolve
• As our Sr. PSoB, you combine data analysis and feedback from clients to develop strategic plans
• You make tactical recommendations for targeting, messaging, and optimizing campaigns to meet KPIs
• Sr. PSoBs continually tweak and optimize campaign creative, copy, audiences, and buying tactics to create the best possible outcomes for their clients
• You also conduct multivariate tests to determine the best-performing creative and target audiences for your campaigns
• You incessantly investigate account performance and constantly adapt strategies based on statistical outcomes in your accounts
• When it’s time to pivot you are among the first early adopters
• You share early insights and encourage the team by helping to lead the way
• You’re an outside-the-box thinker
• Creative problems take creative solutions
• You rack your brain to find the hidden solution in the rough
• Using data from previous campaigns to guide your decision-making, you write compelling direct-response advertising copy, build out campaigns in Facebook Ads Manager, and, ensure all strategic initiatives are built and launched according to strict timelines and agreed-upon budgets across multiple ad accounts
• Attention to detail, proactive problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making are all essential characteristics in becoming a best-in-class media buyer at CTC
• You are a problem solver and know how to take the lead in situations that present any obstacle to execution
• You’re accountable, responsible, and determined
• KPIs are your bread and butter and Google Sheets is your jam
• You look to your goals as a foam wall to tear down, and you take great pride in giving it your all
• We value the mantra of “Count on Me” meaning that you can see things through to the end!
• As a Sr. PSoB, you work closely with members of your growth team and other members of CTC to project a monthly account budget plan for each account in relation to account goals agreed upon by you and your team leader
• You are a champion of communication, giving and receiving feedback in a timely manner, while making sure everybody on your team has clarity on campaign performance and creative testing results
• With your experience and learnings, we look to you to ensure that you’re constantly backing your ideas and opinions with data and bringing that forward for the rest of our team to learn from
• As a Sr. PSoB, you are set to a high standard, and as a model buyer that continues to soak in new information as well as share it to help elevate non-Sr buyers on our team as a whole
• People know that if you are involved, it will get done
• Monitoring active campaigns and adjusting budgets and strategy to ensure the best results possible for our clients
• Implementing tests in your accounts in an effort to beat your best-performing campaigns
• Pulling and Sorting data tables from previous campaigns to guide our creative teams on the best-performing creative elements to use in newer ads
• Assisting with accounts of non-Sr. media buyers to guide them through any helpful tips you might have
• Reporting data kindly and clearly to leadership and clients
• Ownership of Ad Accounts
• Actively running up to 6 clients without regular assistance from other buyers
• Accurate Reporting And Projecting Spend/Revenue
• You’ve learned the ropes and you should be able to accurately project a client’s Facebook spend/ROAS
• Assisting Wherever Possible
• As a Sr. Paid Buyer, you’re expected to share your knowledge with any who need it, Assisting accounts and starting palms down to help wherever you can

Preferred Qualifications

Skilled in ASANA or relevant project management software

Benefits

• $75,000 - $85,000 base salary, annually
• Bonus Structure | 10% of base salary
• 401K | program with a 3% company match (post 90 days employment) to bring out the investor inside you
• TIME OFF | When you’re at CTC, you’re firing on all cylinders. To make that possible, we offer a Flexible Time Off policy where you will coordinate with supervisor to take time away from the office for rest, travel, and variety of others things that are important to you!
• MEDICAL | Full health, dental, and vision benefits that fit your lifestyle and goals
• WELLNESS | A wellness reimbursement program that inspires 360 degrees of health: mentally, physically, and spiritually