Associate Director, Paid Media

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About the role

  • Associate Director scaling Google Ads for Ground News, a subscription news comparison platform. Building acquisition, measurement, landing pages, and YouTube creative across remote Canada or United States.

Responsibilities

  • Build Google from scratch, including account structure, campaign architecture, naming conventions, and testing frameworks
  • Scale spend from its current low base to a major share of total paid budget while holding CAC and subscriber payback
  • Own Search, Performance Max, Demand Gen, and YouTube, including budget allocation and bidding strategy
  • Work with external agencies to build the YouTube creative engine through briefing, testing, and hook and format iteration
  • Build, test, and iterate on dedicated Google landing pages
  • Build the measurement foundation, including conversion tracking, Enhanced Conversions, app and web attribution, incrementality testing, and trusted reporting
  • Experiment with and launch campaigns on adjacent paid channels when justified
  • Partner with product, engineering, and analytics to ship paid-media needs
  • Report honestly and tactfully on performance

Requirements

  • 5+ years managing Google Ads at a meaningful scale, ideally in subscription, DTC, or app
  • Proven experience scaling an account from small to large
  • Hands-on YouTube experience scaling video campaigns
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort with GA4, spreadsheets, and BI tools
  • Creative fluency in briefing video and diagnosing ad performance
  • Experience managing campaigns on paid channels beyond Google
  • Genuine interest in news and media is a plus
  • Bonus: diverse paid social platforms and scaling a channel from 0 to 1
  • Bonus: CTV/OTT and linear TV buying, including Netflix, Hulu, Roku, Amazon, and YouTube TV
  • Bonus: AppsFlyer experience with MMP setup, SKAN configuration, and attribution debugging
  • Bonus: Firebase experience with event tracking, audience building, and app-side conversion signals
  • Bonus: landing page experience working with design and engineering
  • Bonus: Apple Search Ads or app-install experience
  • Bonus: familiarity with MMM or geo-lift
  • Legal eligibility to work in Canada or the US for any employer

Benefits

  • Competitive total rewards: A market-benchmarked base salary, calibrated to your location
  • Remote-first environment: Work from anywhere in Canada, on your own time zone
  • In-person meetups and team gatherings
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage for you and your family
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Mission-driven team building meaningful products with real-world impact

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

FirebaseRoku

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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