Paid Media Strategist

Is This You?

You love the challenge of making every media dollar work smarter. You're energized by uncovering insights, tightening performance, and building strategies that drive measurable results. You thrive in a fast‑paced environment, stay sharp on emerging trends, and bring a data‑driven mindset to every account you touch.

What You’ll Need:

Education:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Experience:

4-7 years of experience in a Paid Media role

A passion for media strategy and planning, with a track record of translating client goals into media recommendations

Deep understanding of client strategy and how that translates to media planning and channel strategy

Expert knowledge of paid search and digital, as well as traditional paid media tools, techniques, vendors, and platforms

Hands‑on tactical experience in major ad platforms, including Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, CTV, etc.

Experience successfully managing significant annual media budgets ($3 million+)

Advanced and integrated analysis skills to uncover key insights and actionable opportunities, or testing ideas

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly and effectively craft a compelling narrative and present analysis findings to internal and external stakeholders

Client presentation skills with the ability to communicate performance data and campaign insights clearly and confidently

What You’ll Do:

Partner with your Manager to understand each client’s objectives and how paid media supports their broader strategy

Participate in planning, research, and analysis to inform media decisions

Lead media planning and strategy for assigned accounts, with guidance as needed

Execute and manage paid media campaigns across multiple platforms

Ensure campaigns are built accurately, follow platform best practices, and are continually optimized for performance

Collaborate with analytics teams to ensure proper tracking and performance monitoring

Serve as the primary day‑to‑day contact for clients regarding their paid media efforts

Maintain precise budget oversight, delivery pacing, and reporting

Bring proactive thinking, new ideas, and meaningful test plans to improve outcomes

This role is based in San Diego, CA, with a flexible hybrid work model. Remote candidates in approved U.S. locations will be considered for the right fit.

This role requires someone who is comfortable working Pacific Standard Time (PST) hours, as the clients supported are based in California.

Hiring Range: $85,000—$95,000 USD

Red Door Interactive is an Equal Opportunity Employer Celebrating the Diversity of our Employees, our Clients, and the Work We Do.

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We're Red Door Interactive— a national, award-winning, full-service marketing agency. We work with mid-market and Fortune 500 companies to optimize brand and performance marketing across all channels – paid, earned, and owned. Using data, technology, and top-industry talent, we deliver meaningful brand experiences that drive more revenue for clients such as Titleist, Patagonia, Stone Brewing, Sun Bum, Bosch, among others. Beyond our tactical capabilities, Red Door's approach to client engagements allows us to solve enterprise marketers' biggest challenges around stakeholder alignment, cross-department silos, resourcing, and measurement.