Digital Advertising Manager (Remote, Chicago)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an AI-first Digital Advertising Manager to own paid media for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will be the strategic voice, making calls on targeting, budget, roadmap and narrative during client discussions.

You will manage paid media across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads, oversee bidding, testing, and attribution, and drive growth through retention and upsell with GA4, Tag Manager and pixel tracking.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads and Meta campaigns; built, run and optimized campaigns yourself.
• Must show a track record of improving ROAS, CPA or pipeline numbers.
• Agency experience managing multiple clients simultaneously.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own paid media across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads for client books.
• Handle budget allocation, bidding, targeting and creative testing; know when to pause a campaign.
• Set up and validate conversion tracking with GA4, Tag Manager and platform pixels.
• Develop 90-day and quarterly client roadmaps and articulate the numbers on calls.
• Drive account growth through retention, upsell and longer-term client relationships.

Skills

Paid media strategy

Campaign optimization

English fluency

Client management

Tools

GA4

Tag Manager

Pixels

Job description

Remote (USA, Canada, Latin America or South Africa)

Blacksmith Agency

• Marketing
• Full time
• Remote (USA, Canada, Latin America or South Africa)

Paid media only. SEO is a separate seat with its own strategist, so you are never split across both.

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency. As Digital Advertising Manager you own paid media for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients: the targeting, the budget calls, the roadmap and the narrative when the client asks why. You are the strategic voice at the table, and you make the calls.

What You Will Own

• Paid media across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads for your accounts.
• Budget allocation, bidding, targeting and creative testing, and when to kill a campaign.
• Conversion tracking and attribution you can trust: GA4, tag manager and platform pixels.
• The 90 day and quarterly roadmap for each client, and the story behind the numbers on the call.
• Account growth: retention, upsell and the long-term relationship.

What You Bring

• 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads and Meta: you have built, run and optimized the campaigns yourself.
• A record of moving ROAS, CPA or pipeline numbers you can walk us through.
• Agency experience across several clients at once.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.