About the Role
The Media Optimization Manager is a senior, hands-on role responsible for optimizing IBKR’s paid media across a broad mix of digital-first channels, including AI-driven and automated campaigns, video, display, and other high-impact formats. This role sits at the intersection of platform execution, experimentation, and measurement, working directly in ad platforms and partnering closely with media partners to ensure campaign efficiency and performance.
Responsibilities
- Own hands-on optimization across paid media platforms, with a strong emphasis on digital channels
- Manage and optimize AI-driven and automated campaigns, as well as video, display, and other scaled media formats
- Work directly within ad platforms to manage campaign structure, bidding, targeting, creative testing, and pacing
- Partner closely with Google and other platform teams to design and execute experiments and beta tests
- Support optimization across both online and offline media, in partnership with analytics and media teams
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in paid media optimization or performance marketing
- Deep hands-on experience managing digital media campaigns, especially within Google’s ecosystem
- Strong understanding of automated bidding, AI-driven optimization, and performance analysis
- Experience optimizing video, display, and other digital formats at scale
- Comfort working with large budgets and complex campaign structures
- Strong analytical skills and ability to turn data into action
- Self-motivated and able to handle tasks with minimal supervision
- Superb analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent collaboration and communication (Verbal and written) skills
- Outstanding organizational and time management skills
Skills
- Paid media optimization
- Performance marketing
- Digital media campaign management
- Google's ecosystem
- Automated bidding
- AI-driven optimization
- Performance analysis
- Video optimization
- Display optimization
- Large budgets management
- Complex campaign structures
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Collaboration skills
- Communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Time management skills
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid (4 days in office / 1 day remote)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 to $250,000 per year
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Stock grant
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Stock grant
- Retirement plan 401(k) with competitive company match
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Company paid medical healthcare premium
- Wellness screenings and assessments
- Health coaches
- Counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Daily company lunch allowance
- Fully stocked kitchen with healthy options for breakfast and snack
- Corporate events including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities and company sports teams
- Education reimbursement
- Learning opportunities
