Activation Manager / Performance Manager

Searchability®; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Searchability, a Melbourne-based media agency, is seeking an Activation Manager to own campaign activation across a client portfolio. You will manage bookings, trafficking, and optimization across digital channels, collaborating closely with planners and clients from brief through reporting.

You will mentor junior staff, lead platform best practice, and act as a trusted delivery and performance contact for clients.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in media activation, trafficking, or campaign management.
• Hands-on platform experience across programmatic, paid social, and/or search.
• Strong understanding of media metrics and translating data into client-ready insights.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to manage multiple campaigns and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own campaign activation across a portfolio of clients from brief to reporting.
• Manage bookings, trafficking, and optimisation across digital channels.
• Collaborate with planners and clients to bring media strategies to life.
• Provide troubleshooting in real time to ensure campaigns run smoothly.
• Mentor junior activation staff and lead on platform best practice.

Skills

Media activation

Campaign management

Programmatic

Paid social

Paid search

Data insights

Communication

multitasking

Tools

Trafficking tools

Analytics platforms

Job description

• 3+ years experience in a media activation / campaign management role
• Strong platform experience across paid social, and paid search
• $115K DOE

WHO WE ARE

We are an independent media agency known for our people-first culture and hands-on approach to media planning and buying. Independently owned, we back our team to think differently and challenge convention, without the layers of bureaucracy that come with holding company life. We invest heavily in our people, offering genuine progression paths and a culture built on trust rather than micromanagement.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

As our Activation Manager, you will take ownership of campaign activation across a portfolio of clients, managing bookings, trafficking, and optimisation across digital channels. You will work closely with planners and clients to bring media strategies to life, troubleshooting in real time and ensuring campaigns run smoothly from brief through to reporting. You will mentor junior activation staff, take the lead on platform best practice, and be a trusted point of contact for clients on delivery and performance. There is genuine scope here to grow into a leadership role as the team continues to expand.

YOU WILL NEED

• 3+ years experience in media activation, trafficking, or campaign management
• Hands-on platform experience across programmatic, paid social, and/or search
• Strong understanding of media metrics and the ability to translate data into client-ready insights
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• The ability to manage multiple campaigns and priorities at once

IT'S NICE TO HAVE

• Experience mentoring or leading junior team members
• Certifications across major ad platforms

By applying for this role you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.