Paid Media Manager

Fountain Digital; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fountain Digital is seeking a Paid Media Manager in Cleveland, OH, with responsibility for strategy, execution, and performance across paid search, paid social, and programmatic campaigns. You will guide a team, manage client relationships, and own reporting and optimization roadmaps.

The role requires senior-level expertise, cross-channel proficiency, and the ability to translate analytics into down-funnel results, with a bias toward data-driven decision making in a fast-paced agency setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of paid media experience.
• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• GA4 and Google Tag Manager experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads strategy, activation and management of paid media campaigns across multiple clients.
• Owns strategy across paid search, paid social, and programmatic channels.
• Mentors and reviews work of junior team members for quality and client-readiness.

Skills

Paid media strategy

Team leadership

Client communication

Analytics

GA4

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Google Ads

Microsoft Ads

Meta (Facebook)

GA4

Google Tag Manager

Job description

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• Cleveland, OH
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Overview

The Paid Media Manager owns paid media strategy, execution, and performance for a portfolio of client accounts. Reporting This role sets data-driven strategy across paid search, paid social, and programmatic, ensures the work is polished and accurate, and is accountable for results. Acting as a primary client contact, a manager of more junior strategists, and the lead of one of our client pods, the Paid Media Manager is a passionate digital marketer who guides team output while remaining hands-on in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Leads, sets, and owns the strategy, activation and management of paid media campaigns for assigned clients—including tactics, budgets, projected impact, targeting, ads and keywords—based on client need and opportunity.
• Owns strategy across paid search, paid social, and programmatic/display, with the depth to guide execution in each channel.
• Manages and develops the Paid Search Strategist and Associate team members; reviews and approves their work for strategic quality, accuracy, and client-readiness.
• Ensures ongoing optimizations and campaign adjustments across the pod’s portfolio align with client business goals and overall campaign strategy.
• Owns the quality of final deliverables across the team and presents them effectively to clients.
• Builds and oversees campaigns in platforms such as Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and Meta; owns the QA process and final review for accuracy across the team.
• Reviews campaigns weekly across the portfolio and sets the strategic and tactical optimization roadmap.
• Oversees weekly campaign management and optimization across the portfolio—budget pacing, SQR review, performance check-ins, and execution against the optimization roadmap.
• Leads monthly client reporting, owns the performance narrative, and sets the go-forward strategy for paid campaigns.
• Occasionally supports new business through media planning, forecasting, and contributions to pitches and scoping.
• Stays current on platform betas and industry trends and disseminates best practices to the team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience
• 2+ years managing or mentoring direct reports preferred
• Expert-level knowledge in paid search required; proficiency in paid social preferred
• Conversant with paid media terminology and major platforms (Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta, etc.)
• Comfortable looking beyond platform level metrics to tie campaign performance to down-funnel success
• Agency experience highly preferred
• Experience managing a portfolio of accounts and multi-channel budgets
• Experience presenting to senior client stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Google Tag Manager preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or Google Workspace tools (Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets), with intermediate to advanced Sheets/Excel skills
• Ability to communicate with a variety of subject matter experts and clients
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Very strong ability to organize work and adhere to deadlines, including the work of junior team member
• Highly accountable and proactive