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Tier 11 over 2 years ago
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Title: Media Buying Team Lead

If you’re looking for 100% remote work with flexible hours, doing what you love

alongside a highly successful, international team of over 60 entrepreneurs (and rapidly growing)

then this is a really good day for you.

Imagine

  • Being in a company that is quick to recognize your talents and contributions and is eager to promote from within
  • Working in a culture where egos are set aside, and everyone pulls for each other’s success (think of it as the digital marketing version of CrossFit)
  • Being a valued part of a highly skilled and erse team
  • Solving one online challenge after another with some of the smartest marketing minds you’ll find anywhere
  • Helping scale brands in over 50 businesses across dozens of industries
  • The opportunity that comes with managing $100M+ in ad spend every year
  • Whose CEO and Founder, Ralph Burns, co-hosts Perpetual Traffic podcast, with over 8 million downloads, and is in the top 0.5% of all podcasts in the world

If this fires you up, then you should do yourself a solid and find out more about this new exciting role below:

About this role

As the Media Buying Team Lead you will oversee the people management of a team of world class media buyers running paid media on Facebook, Instagram, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn plus other platforms. You will take ownership of 3 overarching responsibilities

(1.) Performance management goal setting, career development and planning, 90 day reviews

(2.) Overseeing the training of the media buying team to ensure peak performance

(3.) Capacity management, including hiring to expand capacity

You will report to the Head of Performance. The candidate for this role will have experience managing and leading teams and has a proven history of managing paid media within the Direct Response marketing space.

Core Talents and Attributes

  • Smart (EIQ): You practice empathy and demonstrate deep respect and patience for others you thrive in collaborative, team-based environments. Personable/cool common sense, able to prioritize, intuitive, collaborative first principle thinker, mentally flexible (Considering function over form), Self-awareness, healthy challenger.
  • Initiative: You bring a strong desire to learn, develop and overcome obstacles as they arise for you and your team. Finds solutions to solve problems, wants more (improvement and/or advancement), constant learning mindset (self-improvement), confident in abilities, willing to pay the price in the short term, grit driven. Action-Taker, improviser, adapt & overcome, no excuses, assertive, sees opportunities and acts on them, dependable.
  • Healthy Ego: You leave your ego at the door everyone is equal, and you treat everyone with limitless respect. Proactively engages the team for support and improvement, takes extreme ownership, admits mistakes and learns from them, gives credit to others for their success, has allegiance to the team, takes direction, adaptable, absorbs criticism well doesn’t immediately push back.
  • Precise: Demonstrates a high attention to detail and decisiveness in decision making. Detail oriented, analytical (not necessarily math, but can understand a picture from numbers), clear and simple communicator written and verbal (especially in light of virtual team), pursues perfection, excellent follow-up & follow-through skills, finish what you said you would, works within constraints e.g. brand guidelines, customer requests, policy, trustworthy.
  • Radical Candor: You show genuine care and respect towards others, and practice communication that is direct, considerate and honest whilst not being afraid to make assertions and challenge others on their thoughts, approach or position on a subject. Radical Candor is Caring Personally while Challenging Directly. At its core, Radical Candor is guidance and feedback that’s both kind and clear, specific and sincere.

Core Knowledge & Skills

  • Conflict management. Ability to identify and handle conflicts sensibly, fairly, and efficiently.
  • Management & Leadership. Proven experience in the leadership and management of teams.
  • People Skills. Highly empathetic, genuinely thrives on nurturing people & getting the best out of them
  • Project management. Excellent time and personal management. Highly organized and able to work to monthly, quarterly & yearly deliverable deadlines
  • Digital Marketing. Awareness of online marketing best practices and understand the latest trends for direct response marketing.
  • Self-starter. Capable of creating solutions and solving problems. Ability to juggle multiple priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail.

Core Responsibilities

  • Leadership. You are a strong leader that sets and upholds high standards. You’ll drive a culture of a high performance team, not afraid to have tough conversations and hold your team accountable to meet established expectations.
  • Performance Management. You’ll ensure 90-day reviews are completed for the team and ascension planning is done for those wanting to move into new roles. You’ll handle both performance & welfare issues with compassion. You’ll be proactive in developing initiatives to get the most out of our people (in consultation with HR and Head of performance)
  • Training. You’re responsible for ensuring team members complete any required training for their role and assisting them with issues. You’ll work collaboratively with the Platform Leads & Growth Strategists to ensure their teams are equipped to achieve the best performance for our customers.
  • Hiring. You’ll support the Head of People & Culture in assessing & hiring new media buyers for both FB & Google.

Additional Details

  • This position is flexible (part/full time) and 100% remote.
  • Includes 3 weeks of paid leave per year.
  • We offer and encourage Flexible hours working set business hours is preferred, but if you’re proficient with communicating and getting stuff done, then we’re flexible.
  • You will be providing your own computer & internet access to complete this work.
  • This is a 1099 contractor arrangement. If you’re not in the US just ignore this part.
  • Unfortunately, Tier 11 does not currently offer medical or retirement benefits. If you need them, then we’re just not quite ready for each other yet
  • Important: This is NOT a freelance project you will be hired as an independent contractor.