Sr. Associate, Performance Marketing

Viral Nation Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Viral Nation Inc. is seeking a Sr. Associate to lead media buying across paid social, with opportunities to expand into paid search and programmatic campaigns.

You will own day-to-day optimization, budget pacing, and in-platform troubleshooting while collaborating with teams to execute against strategic plans. The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, creative evaluation, and staying ahead of industry trends.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of media buying experience within paid social.
• Strong command of qualitative and quantitative aspects of paid media.
• Proficiency in the Google / Microsoft Suite and project management tools (monday.com, Asana, or ClickUp).
• Strong collaboration, communication, and organizational skills.
• A keen eye for creative content and current marketing trends.
• Working understanding of marketing analytics, QA, and optimization best practices.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled platform features and automation (Advantage+, Performance Max, smart bidding) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Launch, monitor, optimize, and report on media campaigns across paid social channels, with the potential to manage paid search and programmatic campaigns where clients require.
• Own daily optimization, budget pacing, and in-platform troubleshooting to keep campaigns on plan and on target.
• Build and traffic campaigns accurately, owning self-QA before every launch.
• Analyze performance data to refine tactics, and surface in-platform signals, risks, and opportunities to your Manager.
• Support media planning with actuals, reallocations, and audience execution against the strategic media plan.
• Run campaign experimentation across audiences, creative, and bidding to identify what drives performance.
• Evaluate creative and recommend adjustments aligned to platform best practices and client objectives.
• Join internal and external calls, speaking directly to tactical detail and in-platform campaign structure.
• Be a key contributor in performance platform calls, clearly articulating active and upcoming campaign plans and implementing platform provided recommendations where applicable.

Skills

Media buying

Paid search

Programmatic

Analytics

Google Suite

Project management tools

Communication

Creative awareness

Tools

monday.com

Asana

ClickUp

Job description

Overview

At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands. Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fuelled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started.

While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people. Strong performance leads to high expectations, and we must keep raising the bar!

What You’ll Do Here

• Launch, monitor, optimize, and report on media campaigns across paid social channels, with the potential to manage paid search and programmatic campaigns where clients require.
• Own daily optimization, budget pacing, and in-platform troubleshooting to keep campaigns on plan and on target.
• Build and traffic campaigns accurately, owning self-QA before every launch.
• Analyze performance data to refine tactics, and surface in-platform signals, risks, and opportunities to your Manager.
• Support media planning with actuals, reallocations, and audience execution against the strategic media plan.
• Run campaign experimentation across audiences, creative, and bidding to identify what drives performance.
• Evaluate creative and recommend adjustments aligned to platform best practices and client objectives.
• Join internal and external calls, speaking directly to tactical detail and in-platform campaign structure.
• Be a key contributor in performance platform calls, clearly articulating active and upcoming campaign plans and implementing platform provided recommendations where applicable.

What You Need To Have

• 3+ years of media buying experience within paid social. Strong working knowledge of paid search; programmatic experience a strong asset.
• Strong command of the qualitative and quantitative aspects of paid media.
• Proficiency in the Google / Microsoft Suite and project management tools (monday.com, Asana, or ClickUp).
• Strong collaboration, communication, and organizational skills.
• A keen eye for creative content and current marketing trends.
• Working understanding of marketing analytics, QA, and optimization best practices.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled platform features and automation (Advantage+, Performance Max, smart bidding) is a plus.

Compensation Philosophy

At Viral Nation, compensation is structured, performance-led, and market-aligned. Pay decisions are intentional, based on role requirements, performance, and market alignment by country, and are set to maintain internal pay equity across comparable roles and levels.

Compensation progression is tied to demonstrated performance, expanded scope, and sustained contribution over time, not tenure alone. Employee compensation is reviewed regularly through formal performance reviews and check-ins to ensure alignment with role expectations and impact.

AI in Recruitment

Viral Nation does not use AI-enabled tools to screen, assess, rank, or select candidates – our hiring teams make all hiring decisions. AI note-taking tools may be used during interviews.

DEI Commitment

Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.

EEO and How to Apply

For general consideration, apply online with your resume. This job description focuses on the responsibilities, qualifications, and expectations for the Sr. Associate role. All recruitment processes comply with applicable laws and regulations.