Paid Media Manager — Strategic Multi-Channel Lead (Remote)

narrativestrategies; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Narrative is seeking a mid-level Paid Media Manager to translate client goals into smart media strategy across programmatic, paid social, and other digital channels. You will work with client teams and buyers to plan, launch, and optimize multi-channel campaigns, balancing timelines, budgets, and performance.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years of hands-on experience, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to move fast in dynamic environments while surfacing ideas that improve campaigns.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on paid media experience across planning, management and reporting.
• Experience across programmatic and paid social channels.
• Strong ability to connect paid tactics to broader campaign goals.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account teams to develop media plans and budgets reflecting goals and resources.
• Connect broad strategic picture to tactical execution and reporting.
• Translate client objectives into actionable paid media recommendations with channel selection and budgets.
• Launch and traffic campaigns with media buyers, ensuring on-time delivery.
• Monitor pacing and performance across channels and communicate optimizations.
• Identify opportunities to enhance paid media using data and platform trends.
• Produce performance reports with data-driven insights for future planning.
• Manage multiple campaigns and workflows across channels.
• Serve as a reliable point of contact for internal teams, clients, and partners.
• Support process improvement and best practices for the paid team.

Skills

Paid media planning

Campaign management

Performance reporting

Strategic thinking

Client communication

Collaboration

Job description

Narrative is seeking a mid-level Paid Media Manager to translate client goals into smart media strategy across programmatic, paid social, and other digital channels. You will work with client teams and buyers to plan, launch, and optimize multi-channel campaigns, balancing timelines, budgets, and performance.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years of hands-on experience, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to move fast in dynamic environments while surfacing ideas that improve campaigns.