AI-Driven Paid Media & Acquisition Manager

GamblingCareers.com; Bisbee (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GamblingCareers.com seeks a data-driven digital media professional to plan, execute, and optimize programmatic, mobile/UA, and CTV/OTT campaigns driving new customer acquisition. You will manage budgets and allocate spend in-flight while shaping first-party audience strategies in regulated markets.

The role covers cross-channel planning, offline media, and AI-enabled optimization to maximize ROAS across paid media and analytics partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Plan, execute, and optimize programmatic, mobile/UA, and CTV/OTT campaigns that drive new customer acquisition.
• Manage always-on and campaign budgets, reallocating spend in-flight based on performance.
• Own audience strategy: first-party data, lookalikes, contextual, and state-specific segmentation for regulated markets.
• Negotiate with agencies, networks, and platforms to secure premium inventory and stay ahead of product changes.
• Plan, execute, and optimize programmatic, mobile/UA, and CTV/OTT campaigns that drive new customer acquisition.
• Manage always-on and campaign budgets, reallocating spend in-flight based on performance.
• Own audience strategy: first-party data, lookalikes, contextual, and state-specific segmentation for regulated markets.
• Negotiate with agencies, networks, and platforms to secure premium inventory and stay ahead of product changes.
• Plan and manage OOH, TV, and radio campaigns tied to launches, promotions, and the sports calendar.
• Negotiate rates and placements with media vendors and manage flighting.
• Time offline media to amplify key digital acquisition moments.
• Measure offline impact through geo-lift, search lift, and promo code attribution.
• Own the end-to-end paid media budget, forecasting spend and new customer volume by channel.
• Partner with Creative, Brand, CRM, and Analytics to keep messaging and offers consistent.
• Report performance, pacing, and recommendations to marketing leadership.
• Deploy AI-powered bidding, budget allocation, and targeting tools to improve media efficiency.
• Run high-velocity AI-driven creative and offer tests, and scale winners quickly.
• Build dashboards and predictive models (LTV, media mix) to guide budget shifts before spend is wasted.
• Partner with Data Science on attribution models that fairly credit digital and offline media.
• Pilot emerging AI and adtech tools and bring the best into the always-on stack.

Job description

GamblingCareers.com seeks a data-driven digital media professional to plan, execute, and optimize programmatic, mobile/UA, and CTV/OTT campaigns driving new customer acquisition. You will manage budgets and allocate spend in-flight while shaping first-party audience strategies in regulated markets.

The role covers cross-channel planning, offline media, and AI-enabled optimization to maximize ROAS across paid media and analytics partnerships.