Paid Media Specialist

at Darkroom
🇵🇹 Portugal - Remote
📢 Marketing🔵 Mid-level

Job description

We’re building the future of advertising and are looking for the minds to help us do it.

Darkroom is a progressive omnichannel growth marketing agency focused on retail, e-commerce, and consumer businesses. We have been recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in America by Inc. 5000 (2023), a top 1% digital advertiser by Varos (2023), and our founders were named Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients for Marketing and Advertising North America (2024).

We are hiring a Paid Media Specialist - a performance-driven marketer with a strong command of paid media strategy, campaign execution, and data analysis. This is not just a tactical role; it requires strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and high standards of execution across digital advertising platforms.

You’ll report to the Managing Director of Growth and play a key role in scaling paid media campaigns across a portfolio of high-growth U.S. brands. You’ll be responsible for owning campaign builds, optimization, and reporting, while working closely with creative, brand, and analytics teams to ensure performance goals are met.

This is a fast-paced, high-accountability environment designed for marketers who are ambitious, curious, and ready to grow. You’ll gain hands-on experience in a broad range of platforms and verticals, while developing the skills needed to lead performance strategies end-to-end.

Darkroom is a career incubator for ambitious talent looking to operate at the intersection of business, design, and innovation.

This is a fully remote role supporting a team in the EST time zone and is open to candidates based in Portugal, Barcelona, Brazil, and Colombia.

What you’ll do:

  • Plan, develop, and implement comprehensive paid media strategies to increase brand visibility and recognition and drive new user acquisition and leads via paid media campaigns.

  • Conduct thorough brand and website audits to understand our clients’ key value propositions, core products, and brand aesthetics and identify opportunities to successfully market them and make them stand out in the marketplace.

  • Conduct competitive research to ensure success in the ad space and new acquisition audience targeting.

  • Manage between 5-10 paid media accounts (including but not limited to: Google/YouTube Ads, Pinterest, Facebook/Instagram Ads, LinkedIn Ads, and other social platforms like Twitter and TikTok) on behalf of Darkroom clients, with aggregate monthly spends ranging between $25,000 - $1M.

  • Utilize Platform Ad Managers, third-party reporting tools, and Google Analytics to develop insights and action items intended to increase our clients’ revenues month-over-month and solve for attribution.

  • Understand important KPI and industry-wide benchmarks throughout all steps in the e-commerce marketing funnel.

  • Implement real-time and reactionary ad-buying decisions across multiple platforms in response to up-or-down trends happening on ads platforms.

  • Preemptively develop quarterly strategies for clientele based on perceived success metrics, ad spends, YoY performance metrics, and projections.

  • Deep dive into competitor research, industry knowns, and brand identity to manage client expectations and continually brainstorm new marketing initiatives, creative assets, copy, and review after results.

  • Understand digital marketing best practices and readily contribute to overarching marketing strategies to ensure client success across the board - even if it’s paid media adjacent or outside of channel control.

  • Understand full-funnel marketing strategies to ensure new acquisition, list growth, e-commerce, website CRO, retention, and overall client success based on marketing discussions and strategies that work in tandem with paid media and performance efforts.

  • Understand client needs for success and preemptively deliver projections and forecasts that latter into client quarterly strategy

What you’ll need to be successful:

  • 5+ years minimum of paid media advertising experience preferred (building high converting funnels and driving quantifiable results).

  • 5+ years minimum managing paid search and paid social advertising for growth clients, or clients spending $100k+ minimum monthly aggregate spend.

  • Expertise in developing, testing, and optimizing advertisement copy and creative

  • Experience in keyword targeting and audience optimization across multiple platforms

  • Background in creative consultation for successful Paid Social Ads that convert

  • Background in data-derived decision-making and forecasting budgets/spend projections linked to perceived results

  • Experience using Google Analytics to develop insights and report them to stakeholders

What it’s like to work at Darkroom

We’re building the future of advertising and are looking for the minds to help us do it. We only seek out the best—from our clients to our people. Our team is our most sacred asset, and we offer highly competitive salaries and the following perks:

  • Unlimited Vacation Policy and Holidays: Rebooting is one of the most important parts of growth. At Darkroom, you have access to a flexible vacation policy and 10 holidays throughout the year to keep you recharged and sharp.

  • Location, location, (or no) location: Remote-first culture with a strong community base. With Hubs in the Bay Area, New York, Philly, Lisbon, Sao Paulo, and Barcelona!

  • Health & Wellness: Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision benefits, so you can stay as healthy as can be.

  • Parental Leave: flexible parental leave benefits to support new parents during this important transition, ensuring time to bond with their families while maintaining work-life balance.

  • Finances, growth, and retirement: Equity incentives, and a profit-sharing opportunity so we can help you save as the company grows.

  • Endless opportunities for growth: Our agency is founded on an interdisciplinary approach, giving Darkroomers insights into services far beyond your job description. Grow your skills and interests beyond your niche and stay at the forefront of the industry through total immersion in cross-functional collaboration.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Darkroom is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national orientation, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements

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