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# Paid Media Manager (Paid Social/Search) at Brand Knew

- **Company:** Brand Knew
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2017-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/brandknew/50bdf849-0f2b-4773-b5e2-5a2b28943672

## Job description

We're searching for an experienced, entrepreneurial-minded media buyer to strategize and implement digital buys across our client slate. The successful candidate must demonstrate a proven track record of managing paid social campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter Ads, and search campaigns on Google AdWords and Microsoft Bing focused on CPA & ROI. This role calls for a savvy marketer who can take creative ad ideas from conception to fruition and scale appropriate budgets across platforms. This person must be able to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, must be wildly creative, and must display “out of the box” thinking.

NOTE: Applications that are not fully and properly filled out will not be considered.

Responsibilities:

- Work hand-in-hand with our marketing teams in developing strategies for existing and prospective clients
- Implement Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Google AdWords, and Twitter advertising campaigns
- Market-research new product solutions to assist in our overall methodology and approach
- Manage retargeting campaigns and efforts
- Work alongside our creative team to optimize and test new ad creative and landing pages
- Optimize campaign, audience, creative, budgets, and bids across multiple channels to target ROI/Performance goals
- Work with creative, marketing, and sales team to build and test campaign ideas
- Provide reports and updates as needed per client requirements
- Monitor buying strategies and keep abreast of industry trends

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience in launching Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and AdWords campaigns
- Experience in testing and optimizing ad creative and re-targeting campaigns
- Experience setting up A/B split tests and Multi-Variant testing
- Experience with analytics tools and reporting off of each platform
- Experience working with developers to set up Google Analytics events and pixels across platforms to properly fire
- Strong communication, oral and written skills
- Strong creative skills
- You should have high attention to detail, be composed under pressure, and be cooperative, adaptable and willing to take on new projects
- Self-motivated; can learn quickly and work independently
- Extremely organized, systematic, and able to identify and address issues
- Punctual, can meet deadlines in a timely manner
- Have an analytical and data-driven mindset

Perks:

- Significant opportunity for growth in the company
- Work alongside an incredible slate of clients and team members
- Fun, creative and collaborative company culture
- Unlimited Stumptown cold brew
- Hybrid & Remote work options

Compensation:

- Commensurate with experience, salary range ($72k-$90k)
- Longterm disability insurance
- Health care offering, including dental and vision
- At the 1 year mark: 401k

## About Brand Knew

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brand Knew is a performance marketing agency that builds scalable acquisition systems for direct-to-consumer brands, real money gaming operators, and financial services, with a dedicated impact division serving nonprofit organizations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Zach Suchin (Founding Partner & CEO) and Jason Schutzbank (Founder and President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Performance marketing, digital advertising, creative strategy, data analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise clients in direct-to-consumer (DTC), real money gaming (iGaming, sports betting, daily fantasy), financial services (fintech, prediction markets), and nonprofit/social impact organizations.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Great work and good values aren’t a tradeoff." The agency focuses on clarity over noise, converting attention into measurable business outcomes while maintaining a people-first culture.

## Products & Services
Brand Knew offers a full-stack growth partnership model across three verticals plus a dedicated impact division:

- **Real Money Gaming Practice**: User acquisition for betting operators, iGaming platforms, daily fantasy sports, and social casino products. Works alongside P&L owners on first-time depositor acquisition, retention, and player value optimization.
- **Direct-to-Consumer Practice**: Strategic growth partnership for DTC brands, focusing on efficient customer acquisition, retention strategy, and profitable scaling across digital channels.
- **Financial Services Practice**: High-value user acquisition for fintech companies, prediction markets, trading platforms, and consumer financial products, navigating regulated environments.
- **Impact Division (Nonprofit Marketing)**: Awareness, donor acquisition, and fundraising efficiency for mission-driven organizations like Stand Up To Cancer, Mayo Clinic, and Goodwill.

**Core capabilities**: Branding, audience development, paid media (Meta, TikTok, Snap, Google, Apple Search Ads, Moloco, TVScientific, AppLovin, Rokt), creative production, influencer/creator identification, partnership ads, analytics infrastructure, full-funnel growth strategy, customer acquisition/retention/LTV optimization, email marketing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, bootstrapped)
- **Key Metric**: Total employees – reported as 13 on LinkedIn (with +4.0% monthly growth) and 32 total employees on Built In; annual revenue not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clients include Stand Up 2 Cancer, Nike, Verizon, Mayo Clinic, Goodwill, Bubble Skincare, Netspend, Hilarity for Charity, and Betr. Named "most innovative agency of the year" by TikTok.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across marketing and creative roles; expanding its gaming and impact practices; strong client roster with recognizable brands.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialization in regulated gaming**: Widely recognized as the leading performance marketing agency for real money gaming in the U.S., with deep expertise in player value optimization and compliance.
- **Integrated impact division**: Unique ability to serve both for-profit and nonprofit clients under one roof, leveraging the same data-driven acquisition systems for social good.
- **Data-driven, full-funnel approach**: Combines media buying, creative strategy, and data science into unified growth systems, emphasizing clarity and measurable outcomes.
- **Longevity and reputation**: Operating since 2009 with a track record of high-retention client relationships and industry recognition.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the real money gaming practice as the U.S. market continues to legalize sports betting and iGaming.
- Deepen partnerships with DTC and fintech clients by expanding analytics infrastructure and creative production capabilities.
- Grow the impact division to serve more nonprofit organizations, leveraging the agency’s performance marketing expertise for social impact.
- Continue investing in people and culture to attract top talent in a competitive agency landscape.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "creative collective" of curious, analytical individuals who believe great work and good values go together. Emphasizes collaboration, continuous education, and genuine work/life balance.
- **People-first organization**: "The people we hire define our culture. The people we work with define our reputation." Invests heavily in career building over job growth.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid – Los Angeles office with on-site workspace; roles posted as hybrid or full-time in LA.
- **Notable perks**: Intimate sessions with thought leaders and industry pioneers; a focus on clarity and precision in a fragmented media environment.
- **Engineering/creative culture**: Small, nimble team (13–32 employees) where individuals have broad ownership and impact across client work.

## Sources
1. [brandknew.com](https://brandknew.com/)
2. [brandknew.com/company/](https://brandknew.com/company/)
3. [jobs.lever.co/brandknew](https://jobs.lever.co/brandknew)
4. [builtin.com/company/brand-knew](https://builtin.com/company/brand-knew)
5. [linkedin.com/company/brand-knew](https://linkedin.com/company/brand-knew)

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