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Digital Marketing Strategist: Paid Social - Variable Contractor

Zaelab
Part-time
Remote
Canada, Canada
Description

Responsibilities

Media Buying 

  • Fundamentally understand clients’ businesses and develop paid social marketing strategies to meet performance targets 
  • Create, deploy, and manage Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and LinkedIn campaigns
  • Optimize campaigns by managing budgets, bids, creative, ad analysis, targeting & regular split testing
  • Guide effective copy for ads & landing pages 
  • Optimize eCommerce product feeds using third-party tools to improve channel performance
  • Implement and monitor conversion tracking, proactively identify tracking issues, and provide detailed recommendations on how to resolve them if support is needed
  • Gather and analyze performance data to make recommendations for improvement

Auditing & Strategy 

  • Conduct comprehensive audits and clearly communicate areas of improvement for the following ad platforms: Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn
  • Identify gaps in ad management best practices and document actions needed to improve
  • Participate in cross-channel strategy development for clients, including budget planning, determining performance targets, and providing input on implementation tactics
  • Identify untapped opportunities, provide recommendations and execute strategies to reach client goals
  • Guide ad content strategy, provide actionable recommendations to creative resources and content creators
  • Complete account setup on paid social platforms

Reporting

  • Maintain performance reports to effectively communicate results to clients
  • Ensure client’s business goals are being met, proactively suggest areas of improvement if goals are not being met
  • Manage client conversations as they pertain to managed platforms delivery tactics
  • Guide clients on paid marketing best practices
  • Clearly articulate the “why” behind decisions or suggestions to develop client trust

Internal Projects & Operations

  • Provide regular feedback to leadership on process improvement opportunities
  • Lead development of relevant standard operating procedures (SOPs) to enable division growth
  • Regularly communicate to the internal team, management and clients on project development, timelines and results
  • Continuously monitor digital marketing trends and developments, bring unique suggestions and recommendations to the Marketing Team and clients.


Requirements
  • 1-3 years of demonstrable media buying experience in relevant ad platforms
  • Demonstrated success developing, implementing and optimizing paid social media strategies across: Meta, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and TikTok
  • Agency experience is required
  • Experience managing legacy paid marketing campaigns with the ability to quickly impact performance
  • Comfortable implementing conversion tracking and other administrative tasks within Business Managers
  • Demonstrable experience in scaling brands through paid social
  • Experience with customer segmentation, and paid ad attribution
  • Experience with GA4
  • Google Tag Manager (GTM) experience is a plus, but not required 
  • Ability to successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously

Events

Owner

  • N/A

Participant

  • Internal Client Kickoff Meetings
  • External Client Kickoff Meetings
  • Digital Marketing Strategist 1x1 
  • Marketing Summit (Quarterly)
  • Client Discovery Meetings 
  • Client Reporting Meetings

Artifacts

Platforms

  • 1Password
  • Airtable (HUB)
  • CloudApp
  • Confluence
  • Drive
  • Google Apps
  • JIRA
  • Slack
  • Tempo Time Tracking
  • Tettra
  • Zoom
  • Google Analytics
  • Looker Studio
  • Meta Business Suite
  • Microsoft Advertising Suite
  • Pinterest Business Suite
  • TikTok Business Suite
  • Snap Business Suite 

Deliverables and Templates

  • Client Strategy Presentations
  • Paid Media Audit Summary of Findings
  • Marketing Reporting Dashboards