Director of Paid Media

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Walnut Creek, CA, USA
In-Office
140K-190K Annually
Senior level
Marketing Tech
The Role
Lead and execute paid social and native advertising for Home Services, building strategy, campaigns, experimentation, measurement (Meta Pixel, Conversions API, CRM audiences), AI-driven workflows, cross-functional alignment, team and playbook development to scale qualified lead volume and optimize channel economics and ROI.
Summary Generated by Built In

Buyerlink is looking for a hands-on performance marketing leader to own and scale paid social and native advertising for our Home Services business. This role will set strategy, build and optimize campaigns, improve lead quality and volume, and create a repeatable growth model that can expand across Buyerlink’s broader portfolio. 

The Director of Paid Media will lead with both strategy and execution: managing meaningful budgets, developing test-and-learn programs, partnering cross-functionally, and building the systems, team, and reporting needed to make paid social a scalable customer acquisition engine & playbook. 

High level responsibilities:  

  • Own paid social & native display advertising for the Home Services vertical 
  • Build and scale Buyerlink’s paid social capability 
  • Own channel economics and investment 
  • Build a rigorous experimentation program 
  • Strengthen measurement and attribution 
  • Integrate AI into the paid media workflow 
  • Lead cross-functional execution 

What You’ll Do 

  • Own paid social and native advertising strategy for Buyerlink’s Home Services vertical, with Meta as the primary platform. 
  • Build, launch, manage, and optimize campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, native, display, and emerging social platforms. 
  • Increase qualified lead volume while improving CPL, CAC, ROAS, lead acceptance, contact rates, revenue, and margin contribution. 
  • Create a disciplined testing program across creative, audiences, offers, landing pages, bidding, campaign structure, categories, and markets. 
  • Partner with Creative, Product, Analytics, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Home Services leadership to align media strategy with business priorities. 
  • Strengthen measurement and reporting across Meta Pixel, Conversions API, offline conversions, CRM audiences, attribution, and downstream lead quality. 
  • Use AI tools to improve campaign planning, research, creative iteration, analysis, forecasting, reporting, and experimentation speed. 
  • Develop the paid social playbook, operating model, processes, and team structure needed to scale the channel across Buyerlink. 
  • Share clear performance insights, risks, recommendations, and investment plans with senior leadership. 

What You’ll Bring 

  • 7+ years of performance marketing experience, including substantial hands-on paid social ownership. 
  • Deep expertise in Meta Ads Manager, including campaign setup, optimization, measurement, and scaling across Facebook and Instagram. 
  • Experience in Home Services, local services, lead generation, marketplaces, or another high-volume performance marketing environment. 
  • Strong understanding of local-market acquisition, service-area constraints, seasonality, consumer intent, and lead-quality economics. 
  • Proven ability to manage meaningful paid media budgets and scale investment based on business performance. 
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort working with performance data, financial metrics, attribution, and business KPIs. 
  • Experience designing creative, audience, conversion, and market-testing programs. 
  • Ability to translate campaign performance into clear insights, decisions, and recommendations for senior stakeholders. 
  • High ownership, rigor, organization, and accountability. 
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. 

The Leadership Opportunity 

This is an opportunity to define Buyerlink’s paid social capability from the ground up. You will own the Home Services Paid Social marketing strategy, prove the model, build the operating infrastructure, and help establish paid social as a meaningful, scalable growth engine for the company. 

Compensation Range $140,000- $190,000 USD

Compensation will be determined by factors including knowledge and skills, role-specific qualifications, market location, and experience. 

Hiring Location 

Preference will be given to candidates who can report to one of our North American offices, though this role is open to candidates across the U.S. and Canada. 

We have offices in the following stunning locations: 

  • Walnut Creek, CA 
  • Los Angeles, CA 
  • American Fork, UT 

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of performance marketing experience, including substantial hands-on paid social ownership.
  • Deep expertise in Meta Ads Manager, including campaign setup, optimization, measurement, and scaling across Facebook and Instagram.
  • Experience in Home Services, local services, lead generation, marketplaces, or another high-volume performance marketing environment.
  • Strong understanding of local-market acquisition, service-area constraints, seasonality, consumer intent, and lead-quality economics.
  • Proven ability to manage meaningful paid media budgets and scale investment based on business performance.
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort working with performance data, financial metrics, attribution, and business KPIs.
  • Experience designing creative, audience, conversion, and market-testing programs.
  • Ability to translate campaign performance into clear insights, decisions, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
  • High ownership, rigor, organization, and accountability.
  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
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The Company
HQ: Walnut Creek, CA
115 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

Buyerlink operates the leading marketplace for locally targeted and category-specific consumer demand online. A One Planet Group company. Our patented technology allows our platform to conduct millions of auctions striving to connect consumers to perfectly matched service providers. We currently serve the automotive, real estate, insurance, home services, solar, and home warranty industries, and our category agnostic platform offers us the capability to quickly launch new verticals as necessary. As a fully integrated technology platform, Buyerlink simplifies online marketing, empowering businesses of all sizes to gain access to in-market locally-targeted consumer demand at scale. While Buyerlink is focused on providing a massively effective, locally targeted marketing solution, as a One Planet company our true fulfillment stems from operating a mission-driven business with a measurably positive impact on the world. Our fundamental values place love at the center of every facet of the business. We stand for social justice, women's rights, racial justice, and unity. Buyerlink provides the means to uphold our unwavering commitment to universal philanthropy.

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