Media Buyer

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Canada
Mid level
AdTech
The Role
The Media Buyer plans, executes, and optimizes paid media campaigns to achieve measurable results, ensuring alignment with client goals.
Summary Generated by Built In

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!

Position Overview:

The Media Buyer will be responsible for planning, executing, and optimizing paid media campaigns across multiple platforms to drive measurable results for clients. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of audience targeting, bidding strategies, and performance metrics. Working closely with the strategy and creative teams, the Media Buyer ensures campaigns are aligned with brand goals and deliver maximum ROI. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, data-driven, and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What you’ll do here:
  • Launch, manage, and report on paid media campaigns across social, search, and programmatic platforms.
  • Collaborate closely with the Manager, Paid Media and others Media Buyers to communicate campaign needs, performance insights, and optimization opportunities.
  • Oversee daily monitoring and optimization to ensure campaigns meet performance goals and align with broader media strategies.
  • Maintain quality control and ensure all campaigns adhere to client objectives, budgets, and timelines.
  • Assist in preparing and presenting internal and external materials, including reports, strategies, and client updates.
  • Participate actively in agency initiatives such as ideation sessions, training, and new business pitches.
    Confidently speak to campaign strategies, performance, and rationale when engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of paid media buying experience within a performance marketing or media agency.
  • Strong understanding of paid media from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives, including Paid Social, Paid Search, and Programmatic is highly preferred.
  • Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate clearly—both verbally and in writing.
  • Proficient in Google Workspace.
  • Experience managing workflows via project management tools (e.g., Monday.com, Asana, ClickUp).
  • Strong creative sensibility and awareness of current marketing trends.
  • Highly organized with strong accountability for timelines, deliverables, and campaign performance.
  • Deep understanding of marketing best practices, testing methodologies, and optimization strategies.
  • Fluent in English, both spoken and written.

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.

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Google Workspace
Monday.Com
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The Company
Mississauga, Ontario
386 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Viral Nation is a global digital and social agency group driving growth and connection through performance and innovation.

Our mission is to close the distance between brands and consumers and create tighter bonds.

Using real time data, first-hand insight, and collaborating with people who know their audiences intimately, we help brands find smarter ways in to deliver better value to their communities.

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