Paid Ads Specialist

Paid Ads Academy; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Paid Ads Academy is seeking a detail-oriented Paid Ads Specialist to own day-to-day execution of paid media across multiple platforms. You will implement the targeting, budgets, and testing plans defined by the Senior Paid Ads Coach and continuously optimize for ROAS and lead quality.

You will ensure clean data through robust tracking, naming conventions, and pixel setup, while producing clear weekly performance reports for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of hands-on paid media buying, building and managing campaigns in Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads (Search, Performance Max, YouTube).
• Experience confidently managing a 7-figure annual ad budget across multiple platforms.
• Familiar with pixels, UTMs, and conversion tracking; able to troubleshoot data discrepancies.
• Strong analytical skills; able to read GA4 reports and take action beyond the numbers.
• Detail-oriented and organized; able to juggle multiple campaigns with deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Execute campaigns across Meta, Google, TikTok, Spotify, ChatGPT, and YouTube per the plan set by the Senior Paid Ads Coach.
• Maintain account hygiene with consistent naming, UTMs, and pixel/conversion tracking; coordinate with Tech & Automations to keep data clean.
• Run recurring audits to catch inefficiencies before they compound.
• Monitor spend, CPL/CPA, and ROAS daily; adjust campaigns within thresholds.
• Coordinate with Brand & Creative to craft briefs, assets, and landing pages; refresh as needed.
• Prepare weekly and campaign-level performance reports for leadership.

Skills

Paid media buying

Campaign management

Analytics

A/B testing

Budget management

Communication

Tools

Meta Ads Manager

Google Ads

YouTube Ads

UTM tracking

Pixels

GA4

Google Tag Manager

Job description

The Paid Ads Specialist owns the day-to-day execution of Paid Ads Academy's own paid media, the campaigns that drive traffic and leads into our challenges, masterclasses, and evergreen funnels. You take the targeting, budget, and testing plan the Senior Paid Ads Coach sets and run it: building campaigns, watching spend daily, and reporting on what is working across multiple platforms: Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. The Senior Paid Ads Coach owns strategy, budget authority, and the performance thresholds. You own execution: the builds, the daily optimizations inside those thresholds, the tracking hygiene, and the reporting that tells everyone the truth about what happened. A strategy is only as good as the account it runs in. What makes this different from an agency seat is whose money it is. This is our budget, driving leads into the programs that fund the company. When cost per lead drifts, it is not a client conversation, it is our margin. We also teach paid ads for a living, which means our own accounts should be the strongest example of the work we put in front of students. You will be one of the people who makes that true.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Campaign Execution
• Campaign Build & Launch: Build and launch paid campaigns across Meta, Google, TikTok, Spotify, ChatGPT, and YouTube for challenges, masterclasses, and evergreen funnels, following the targeting, budget, and creative testing plan set by the Senior Paid Ads Coach
• Account Hygiene: Keep every account organized with consistent naming conventions, UTM tracking, and pixel and conversion tracking, working with Tech & Automations to keep data clean
• Campaign Audits: Run recurring audits of active accounts to catch structural, targeting, or budget inefficiencies before they compound
• Recruiting Ads: Post and manage paid recruiting ads when new roles go live
• Performance Monitoring & Optimization Daily Monitoring: Check spend, cost per lead, cost per acquisition, and ROAS daily across all active campaigns Optimization: Pause, scale, or adjust campaigns against the performance thresholds the Senior Paid Ads Coach sets, without waiting to be told
• Platform Awareness: Track Meta, Google, and YouTube platform and policy changes that could affect active campaigns, and flag anything the Senior Paid Ads Coach needs to know
• Curriculum Flagging: Flag when a platform change is coming or occurs
• Early Warning: Flag underperformance or tracking issues the same day, before they burn budget
• Occasional Holiday/Weekend Coverage: During an active launch, monitor campaigns as needed during occasional holidays or weekends when the rest of the team is not working. In exchange, we'll provide flexibility to adjust your schedule and make up that time during the week
• Industry Research: Run ongoing competitive and industry analysis to surface emerging trends, new ad formats, and growth opportunities
• Reporting Recurring Reporting: Build and maintain the weekly and campaign-level performance reports for the Senior Paid Ads Coach and leadership
• Budget Pacing: Track spend against planned budget for every active campaign so nothing overspends or underspends without a reason
• Creative Coordination Creative Briefs: Write the creative briefs for new ad concepts, partnering with Brand & Creative to shape assets and call out iteration opportunities as results come in
• Creative Requests: Partner with Brand & Creative and Funnels teams to get ad creative, copy, and landing pages built, tested, and refreshed on schedule
• Test Planning: Contribute ideas to the A/B testing plan for creative, audiences, and landing page experience, based on what you are seeing in the accounts
• Creative Testing: Run the creative and audience tests the Senior Paid Ads Coach prioritizes, and report back what won and why
• Content Quality Support Curriculum Recommendations and QA: Do a first-pass review of new ad-related training material, checking for accuracy and consistency with current platform behavior and ensure what's in the training aligns with what's working and relevant
• Refresh Tracking: Keep a running list of course content that needs a refresh based on platform or strategy changes

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience: 2 to 4 years of hands-on paid media buying, building and managing campaigns directly in Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads (Search, Performance Max, YouTube). Can confidently manage a 7-figure annual ad budget across multiple platforms.
• Tracking & Attribution: Comfortable with pixels, UTMs, and conversion tracking, and knows how to troubleshoot when the numbers do not add up
• Analytical: Comfortable working in Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Excel, and can read a report and know what to do next, not just pull the numbers
• Detail & Organization: Manages multiple active campaigns and deadlines at once without letting tracking, optimization, or reporting standards slip
• Communication: Flags issues and opportunities early rather than waiting to be asked, and can e