Paid Media Lead

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.

The Marketing team at Snap articulates and brings to life who we are as a brand, why we exist, who we serve, and what value we have to offer. We are on a mission to build a best-in-class international marketing organization. With functions spanning global business and consumer marketing, consumer insights, creative, brand marketing, and marketing operations, the team enables and activates marketing initiatives across the entire Snap Inc. ecosystem.

We’re looking for an exceptional Paid Media Lead with deep experience developing, executing, and optimizing integrated paid media campaigns across the full marketing funnel. The ideal candidate is both a strategic media thinker and a hands-on practitioner who is comfortable working directly within advertising platforms to launch, manage, and optimize campaigns.

This role will help shape paid media strategy across consumer and business marketing initiatives, translating business objectives into effective channel strategies, investment recommendations, and measurable results. The ideal candidate has extensive experience across paid search and paid social, a strong understanding of measurement and optimization, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop paid media strategies and plans that translate marketing and business objectives into channel, audience, budget, flighting, and optimization recommendations
• Own campaign planning, activation, optimization, and performance across key paid media channels and platforms, with a particular emphasis on Google Ads (Paid Search/YouTube/PMax), Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn
• Work hands-on within advertising platforms to build campaigns, manage bidding and targeting strategies, troubleshoot performance issues, and identify optimization opportunities
• Lead paid search strategy, including keyword development, account structure, bidding, audience strategy, negative keyword management, ad copy testing, and ongoing optimization
• Manage media budgets and pacing across campaigns and channels, ensuring investments are deployed efficiently and aligned with business priorities
• Analyze campaign performance and translate data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for Marketing and cross-functional partners
• Partner with Marketing Analytics and Data Science teams to develop measurement frameworks, assess incrementality, improve attribution, and evaluate media effectiveness
• Design and execute testing roadmaps across audiences, creative, bidding strategies, platforms, placements, and other media variables
• Partner closely with Brand, Creative, Product Marketing, Decision Sciences, and other cross-functional teams to ensure paid media strategies align to broader business and marketing goals
• Build and maintain relationships with key media platform partners, staying current on new products, capabilities, betas, and industry developments
• Identify emerging opportunities within search, AI-driven discovery, and evolving digital media behaviors that could improve marketing effectiveness
• Establish paid media best practices, processes, and reporting standards that enable the organization to operate efficiently and scale successful approaches

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in media planning, buying, and campaign management, either at an agency, in-house, or a combination of both
• Extensive hands-on keyboard experience building, managing, and optimizing campaigns within:
  • Google Ads, with significant experience in Paid Search/YouTube/PMax
  • Meta Ads Manager
  • TikTok Ads Manager
  • LinkedIn Campaign Manager
• Demonstrated experience developing integrated, multi-channel media strategies and translating business objectives into actionable media plans
• Strong understanding of paid media optimization, bidding strategies, audience targeting, conversion tracking, attribution, and performance measurement
• Experience managing and pacing significant paid media budgets across multiple platforms and campaigns
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret campaign data, diagnose performance drivers, and make clear optimization recommendations
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in a fast-paced, highly cross-functional environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing paid media for both B2C and B2B marketing
• Experience developing B2B demand generation and/or lead generation media strategies
• Experience managing mobile app install and app acquisition campaigns, including campaign optimization against installs, in-app actions, and downstream performance
• Experience with Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), AI search, or other emerging search and discovery channels
• Strong knowledge of search engine marketing beyond campaign execution, including search behavior, keyword strategy, landing-page experience, and conversion optimization
• Experience with brand and performance media across the full marketing funnel
• Familiarity with media incrementality testing, brand lift, attribution models, and marketing mix measurement
• Experience working within the technology, consumer electronics, mobile, or digital media industries
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex media performance into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
• Scrappy and resourceful approach to work, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, move quickly, and prioritize the opportunities most likely to drive meaningful business impact

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week. 

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):

The base salary range for this position is $142,000-$214,000 annually.

Zone B:

The base salary range for this position is $135,000-$203,000 annually.

Zone C:

The base salary range for this position is $121,000-$182,000 annually.This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

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