Associate Paid Social Specialist

Posted 23 Days Ago
Easy Apply
Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
Remote
1-3 Years Experience
Fintech • Mobile • Social Impact • Software • Financial Services
Self helps underserved and credit invisible people build and establish their credit.
The Role
The Paid Marketing Specialist manages day-to-day optimization of paid marketing campaigns, focusing on user acquisition and improving cost per action (CPA) and return on ad spend (ROAS). The role requires collaboration across teams for campaign planning, execution, creative production, and performance reporting, leveraging various paid media platforms.
Summary Generated by Built In

Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.

We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.

Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

As part of the performance marketing team, the Paid Media Specialist is primarily responsible for managing the day-to-day optimization of paid marketing campaigns to improve CPA and ROAS, while driving increased user acquisition volume.  


You will drive the day-to-day campaign management and optimization of core social  channels and be responsible for a meaningful portion of our user acquisition budget. You will be constantly analyzing campaign data to drive increases in KPIs through a test and iterate approach.


As part of a fast-growing, yet lean, venture-backed financial technology startup, you will need to be able to make decisions quickly while learning from others on your team.  You will work closely with others in marketing, product, and analytics. 


You will also participate in our creative production process through in-house and agency partners for design and copy. This includes competitive research, brainstorming, ideation, feedback, collaboration with compliance teams, live testing, and ongoing iterations.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Help manage the planning and execution of paid user acquisition campaigns across Facebook, Tik Tok, Snapchat & other media partners
  • Grow purchasing users across both mobile app and web properties, focusing on hitting CPA & ROAS targets, all while assessing user quality, churn, and LTV
  • Collaborate with internal teams, and/or agency partners to grow campaigns
  • Create campaigns and execute bid, optimization, audience, and creative tests to improve campaign performance
  • Collaborate with in-house and external designers to iterate on and create ads to drive creative testing working within a highly-regulated environment and industry to ensure all best practices are met with compliant ads
  • Improve post click conversion through landing page optimization utilizing standard web page testing best practices and landing page design tools
  • Identify fluctuations in performance across campaigns and assess and execute tactics to rightsize issues in KPIs leveraging a wide variety of measurement methodologies
  • Report on performance to key marketing and company stakeholders
  • Continually leverage new tools and industry best practices     


Requirements:

  • B.S. or M.S. degree and 1-2 years experience in paid media and user acquisition,  preferably for a cross-platform direct to consumer brand.
  • Experience in A/B testing to drive KPI improvement
  • Analytical/Data driven mindset (SQL knowledge is a plus!)
  • Strong Microsoft Excel and Google Workspace skills
  • Experience with project management tools like Jira or Trello
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment
  • Organization, planning, and prioritization skills are a must

Base salary range: $58,500-71,500 annually.  Individual pay is based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, and other job-related reasons.

Benefits and Perks:

We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many companies cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. We have a Do the Right Thing ethos in all that we do, and we hope you value that approach, too. 

Our perks include:

  • Company Equity in the form of Stock Options
  • Quarterly performance-based bonuses
  • Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Educational assistance
  • Free gym membership
  • Casual dress code
  • Team building events and activities
  • Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
  • Paid parental leave 

Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Top Skills

Facebook Ads
Google Ads
Snap Ads
Tik Tok Ads

What the Team is Saying

Elizabeth
Gabriela
Joanna
Kristin
Tim
Brett
Jorge
The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
350 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

At Self, we are committed to building affordable financial products for all individuals. Our flagship product is called a credit builder account which helps people establish and build credit in a safe and responsible way.

Why Work With Us

It's not every day you have the opportunity to work for a for-profit company with a strong mission that has meaningful impact on people's lives. If you're searching for a higher purpose and you're passionate about helping to improve people's financial situation, then Self is just the place.

Gallery

Gallery
Gallery
Gallery
Gallery
Gallery
Gallery
Gallery
Gallery

Self Financial Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We offer a remote and hybrid work environment to adapt to our changing world, including unlimited time off when you need it.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQAustin, TX
Our company is in the heart of downtown Austin overlooking the world-famous sixth street district and the Texas State Capitol building.

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account