PAID MEDIA ASSOCIATE (TEMPORARY)

Little Dot Studios; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Little Dot Studios in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Paid Media Associate to join our Paid Media team. This role emphasizes strategy, client communication, and data-driven media planning, with a foundation in hands-on campaign exposure to Google Ads, YouTube, and paid social.

You will support relationships, help build media plans aligned with client KPIs, review creative assets, and guide internal teams through tasks, QA, and reporting to fuel growth for our diverse client portfolio.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience at a digital/social media agency, publisher, or creator network with exposure to paid social strategy and audience acquisition.
• Solid foundational understanding of YouTube channel growth, Google Ads objectives, and video asset specs.
• Demonstrated focus on client success, with a track record of driving campaign goals and testing ideas.
• Attention to detail with a commitment to quality assurance across campaign plans, decks, and creatives.

Responsibilities

• Campaign structuring and media plan creation aligned with client KPIs.
• Communicate with clients and lead regular status updates.
• Translate performance metrics into clear decks and reports with insights.
• Coordinate with internal teams to pivot plans as goals evolve.
• QA across campaign plans, media plans, and creative specs.

Skills

YouTube Growth

Google Ads

Paid Social

Data-Driven Storytelling

Tools

Google Ads Manager

Meta Ads Manager

TikTok Ads

Job description

We Realize Potential in Your Story We are a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network who are currently on a quest to find a Paid Media Associate to join our Paid Media team - Is this your next opportunity? We are looking for an enthusiastic, client-first Paid Media Associate who is passionate about social video strategy, paid social advertising, and audience growth frameworks, with a heavy emphasis on YouTube growth and Google Ads. You will support client relationships, help build data-driven media plans, align Google Ads and paid social campaign objectives with client KPIs, and evaluate creative assets. This is a strategy-first, client-focused role: you will focus on client communication, presentation decks, media planning, and tasking internal media buyers and execution teams rather than managing ad setups directly, though a foundational background in hands-on campaign execution (Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads, etc.) is a huge plus! We need someone highly organized, deeply curious, collaborative, and driven by client success - someone who can hit the ground running, loves testing new ideas, and thrives on helping scale our client partnerships efficiently. This is a temporary role. This assignment is currently anticipated to begin in October 2026 and continue through December 2026, however the length of assignment could change depending on business needs.

How You Will Spend Your Time

Strategy & Media Planning (Core Focus)

• Campaign Structuring: Collaborate with strategists to build media plans and blended campaign structures aligned with client KPIs and audience acquisition objectives.
• Creative & Spec Evaluation: Review client video assets, evaluating aspect ratios, lengths, and messaging against Google Ads objectives to ensure creative aligns with strategy before launch.
• A/B Testing & Innovation: Identify opportunities to test new creative formats, messaging, and audience targeting to uncover fresh avenues for client success.

Client Management & Communication

• Day-to-Day Client Service: Serve as a key day-to-day strategic contact for brand accounts, managing client communications and leading regular status updates.
• Data-Driven Storytelling: Translate performance metrics into clear presentation decks and reports that highlight campaign wins and actionable insights.
• Account Adaptability: Monitor shifting client priorities and work with internal teams to pivot media plans smoothly as goals evolve.

Execution Oversight & QA Process

• Cross-Functional Tasking: Task, delegate, and organize deliverables across internal media buying teams, ensuring projects stay on schedule without directly managing ad platform setups.
• Quality Assurance (QA): Perform rigorous QA across all campaign deliverables, media plans, and creative specs to maintain execution accuracy.
• Scalable Workflows: Execute task delegation in an organized, scalable manner that keeps team output high and eliminates operational bottlenecks.

Insights & Portfolio Growth

• Platform Expertise: Stay current on YouTube and paid social trends, ad formats, and feature updates to share insights with internal teams and clients.
• Account Expansion Support: Assist senior team members in identifying organic growth and campaign expansion opportunities within your client portfolio.

What You Need To Succeed

Skills matter, experience is useful, attitude is everything.

Core Qualifications & Technical Capabilities

• Agency / Publisher Background: 1–2 years of experience at a digital/social media agency, publisher, or creator network with exposure to paid social strategy and audience acquisition.
• YouTube & Google Ads Knowledge: Solid foundational understanding of YouTube channel growth, Google Ads campaign objectives, and video asset specifications (aspect ratios, video lengths, ad formats).
• Client-First & Goal-Oriented Focus: Demonstrated focus on client success, with a track record of driving campaign goals, testing fresh creative/targeting ideas, and identifying expansion opportunities.
• Detail & QA Obsession: Exceptional attention to detail with a strict commitment to Quality Assurance (QA) across campaign plans, client decks, and creative specs.
• Data-Driven Storytelling: Ability to analyze raw performance metrics and translate numbers into clear, compelling visual stories and deck presentations for clients.
• Process-Minded Task Delegation: Process-oriented approach with the ability to follow established workflows, efficiently task internal media buyers, and keep deliverables moving smoothly.

Bonus Skills & Personality Traits

• Collaboration & Agility: Approachable, highly collaborative team player with strong communication skills, fun energy, and the flexibility to pivot quickly when client priorities shift.
• Hands-on Platform Background: Direct experience setting up, launching, or managing campaigns in Google Ads or Meta Ads Manager is a strong plus, though hands-on execution is not a primary duty.
• Multi-Platform Familiarity: Exposure to paid social advertising across additional channels like TikTok, Meta, or Pinterest.

Candidates must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.

USE OF AI IN APPLICATIONS

Please keep it human; we want to get to know you - your thinking, and your originality. Whilst generative AI tools can be helpful for text refinement, we require your application to jobs at Little Dot Studios to be in your own voice and words. AI cannot be used to generate your responses and any applications appearing to be entirely AI-generated will not be progressed.

LITTLE DOT, BIG IMPACT

We're probably the biggest studio you didn't know was fueling your favorite content. We've been one of the top dogs in the digital content space since 2013 (some would say, before its potential was even fully realized). We're proud to work with some of the hottest TV and movie studios, distributors, rights holders, sports federations and brands in the business.

WE ARE COMMITTED

Little Dot Studios is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and does not unlawfully discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, pregnancy, age over 40, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, registered domestic partner status or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation. Please inform LDS if you need assistance to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process. LDS will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

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Learn more about us, our values and our commitments please visit our website www.littledotstudios.com for more information.

We are Little Dot Studios - a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network.

We work across every screen, partnering with some of the biggest names in entertainment, sports, social impact and consumer brands. As leading YouTube and social media specialists, we handle everything from strategy, audience development, content production, monetization, and digital copyright management.

We're disruptive by nature and adaptive by design. We operate a multi-platform, multi-format production company who specialize in creating everything from original broadcast-quality film and TV and award-winning podcast series to short-form social content and live streams that perfectly tap into cultural moments. Whether we're building communities, engaging superfans or driving performance - our aim is to realize the potential in every story.

We also run Little Dot Channels - our global digital media network made up of more than 250 channels across social platforms and seven FAST brands streaming on over 130 feeds. With more than 30,000 hours of premium content, we reach 125 million unique viewers every month and offer access to one of the largest brand-safe, premium advertising inventories across YouTube and CTV.

We're proud to include WING, our specialist sports and branded content agency, and History Hit, Dan Snow's podcast network and SVOD service, in the Little Dot group too.

To top it all off, we're a certified B Corp, have been verified carbon neutral since inception, and are on track to be net-zero by 2030.

Founded in April 2013 and born for the digital entertainment era, we are made up of 500 digital experts across the UK, USA, Germany & APAC. We are part of media and entertainment group, Banijay Entertainment.