Paid Advertising Strategist - Ecommerce

Power Digital Marketing; Canada; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Power Digital Marketing is seeking a Paid Advertising Strategist in Canada to own the execution, performance, and growth of campaigns within their book of business. You will partner with account leadership to evolve strategy across channels and manage reporting, optimizations, and client communications.

Ideal candidates have 2-3 years in digital marketing, agency experience, and hands-on work across Google, Meta, TikTok, or LinkedIn, with strong Google Analytics skills.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of digital marketing experience.
• 1-2 years in an agency setting.
• Experience with at least two paid advertising channels (e.g., Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn).
• Proficiency in Google Analytics and analytics-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Own performance marketing across paid social and paid media channels.
• Lead channel optimizations and reporting to meet goals.
• Communicate with clients and internal teams on strategy and results.
• Develop testing roadmaps and manage next steps with the team.

Skills

Paid advertising

Agency experience

Digital marketing

Google Ads

Meta Ads

TikTok Ads

LinkedIn Ads

Google Analytics

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Analytics

Job description

Who We Are

Power Digital is an AI-Native Growth Firm built at the intersection of world-class talent and proprietary technology. We help leading and emerging brands grow by combining deep vertical expertise, strategic thinking, and enterprise intelligence to drive measurable business outcomes.

For more than a decade, we have built our business around one belief: the best technology makes great people better. Our teams of strategists, creatives, analysts, and technologists use Omega, our AI operating system, to surface opportunities faster, investigate what is driving performance, and execute approved work with greater speed and precision. Behind Omega is Iris, our proprietary intelligence layer, built on years of real performance data, strategic frameworks, testing, and learnings from across our client portfolio. AI expands the capacity of our people to think, create, solve harder problems, and make better decisions. Human judgment, creativity, and accountability remain central to how we work.

As a people-first firm, we value diversity in backgrounds and experiences. We strongly believe our people and culture are key to our success. We partner closely with our clients as an extension of their teams, working across strategy, execution, and measurement to identify what is truly blocking growth and determine what to do next. Our culture is built on people who are curious, ambitious, accountable, and committed to delivering meaningful results for our clients and for one another.

At Power Digital, we believe the future belongs to teams that combine the best talent with the best technology. We are building that future today.

A Day In The Life

The Paid Advertising Strategist is responsible for owning the execution, performance, and growth of campaigns within their book of business. They are oriented towards the clients’ business success, tying their efforts to the greater business goals. They are self-starters and autonomously own their responsibilities. The Strategist works hand-in-hand with account leadership to ideate and evolve the strategy of their service within the broader media mix. They are responsible for owning reporting, optimizations, client communication, and execution of keyword research, ad copy development, bid optimizations, and routine campaign management, sometimes with the support of a Specialist. The Strategist is excellent at providing insights and forward-thinking strategy to clients on an ongoing basis and has a strong understanding of their service’s strategy and the levers to pull to drive performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Full ownership and execution of performance marketing via paid social & paid media native platforms
  • Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, Pinterest Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Google Ads, Youtube Ads, Bing Ads
  • Effectively executing builds and production A-Z with redundancy across channels and 100% on time delivery
  • Lead execution of optimizations with regard to performance improvements relative to goals
  • Manage all client budgets and/or advise on budget changes based on your expertise with accurate budget pacing
  • Sufficient QA that results in no errors that would yield a negative impact to revenue for clients
  • Lead proactive strategy recommendations across assigned channels, surfacing opportunities and risks ahead of client requests.
  • Maintain client testing roadmaps and project manage next steps, ensuring a consistent, ongoing cadence of experimentation.
  • Escalate performance risks early, distinguishing normal fluctuation from genuine account risk requiring intervention.
• Effectively own strategic communication internally for client teams
  • Proactive internal communication with team on performance, strategy, recommendations, deliverables, and action items; facilitating tactical needs with Specialists where applicable
  • Weekly client progress recaps, outlining performance insights and future recommendations
  • Consistent upkeep of client testing roadmaps and project management of next steps
• Excellent marketing and business strategy acumen
  • Complete understanding of the marketing funnel and how to execute via paid social and paid media
  • Full knowledge of the Power Circuit, adapting to the latest product processes
  • Utilize and leverage Power Digital's Nova ecosystem as it relates to your role
  • Ability to navigate roadblocks and adapt strategy to changes in landscape to achieve desired results
• Ownership of performance reporting and strategy communication
• Ability to leverage data to tell a story and articulate results to clients and key stakeholders with clear next steps
• Employ AI technologies to enhance and optimize business processes

Role Requirements

• 2-3 years of digital marketing experience; 1-2 years in an agency setting
• Minimum 2-3 years of hands-on experience with at least 2+ of the following paid advertising channels
• Google/Bing, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat and other applicable paid advertising networks
• Specifically having experience with campaign development and optimization processes such as bid optimization, keyword research, ad copy development, campaign strategy, and optimizations
• Proficiency in Google/Microsoft Office Suite(s)
• Proficiency in Google Analytics
• Strong understanding of full-funnel marketing
• Other skills required:
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong organizational and project management skills
  • Self-motivated individual with a strong desire to succeed
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Confident with client-facing presentations and communication
  • Strong work ethic and ability to learn quickly and independently
  • Interested in a long-lasting relationship with a growing company

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Managing a full workload indicated by $28K revenue/employee
• 90% Client Retention, evaluated biannually
• Team Retention (of DRs if applicable): 95%

Most Important Things (MITs)

• Excellence in channel production and account performance
• Cross-channel collaboration
• Internal communication

Power Digital’s people and culture are at the core of our success, which is why diversity in our team’s backgrounds and experiences are paramount. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who strive to make an impact inside and outside of the workplace. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employees' points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.