Director of Paid Media, Performance Video at Launch Potato | Arlington, VA, US | Rezi

Director of Paid Media, Performance Video at Launch Potato

Director of Paid Media, Performance Video

Launch Potato · Arlington, VA, US

1 months ago

Director of Paid Media, Performance Video

Launch Potato · Arlington, VA, US

2 months ago
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About the Role

Launch Potato is seeking a performance video growth leader to take full ownership of the company's video business, starting with YouTube and expanding to other platforms. This role involves hands-on campaign management, strategy, execution, P&L management, growth target achievement, and creative testing, with an initial focus on insurance verticals and future expansion into other video channels.

Responsibilities

  • Full ownership of spend, pacing, reporting, operations, and profitability for Insurance YouTube campaigns with a target of 2x annualized run rate in year one at a minimum 110% ROAS.
  • Directly manage Google Ads campaigns, including architecture, audience strategy, bidding, budget allocation, conversion events, targeting, exclusions, and testing frameworks.
  • Scale campaigns across insurance verticals, tailoring strategy to each customer journey and economics, and expanding into new insurance and financial services verticals.
  • Build campaigns to drive both leads and inbound calls, understanding call quality, conversion rates, advertiser feedback, and downstream monetization.
  • Own creative strategy from a performance lens, including audience selection, messaging, funnel stage alignment, hooks, offer positioning, formats, and testing priorities.
  • Partner with the creative team and utilize AI/self-serve tools for rapid creative testing.
  • Proactively and clearly communicate performance, insights, and decisions to stakeholders, teams, and executives daily.
  • Build repeatable operating systems for video buying, creative testing, audience expansion, call-based campaigns, and multi-vertical scaling.
  • Generate learnings to advance the entire paid media team.
  • Build and lead a video-first team as investment scales.

Requirements

  • 8+ years managing high-growth performance marketing portfolios.
  • 3+ years managing and scaling YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and/or other video-first portfolios with budgets of $20M+/year.
  • Experience scaling performance video in at least one major lead gen niche: affiliate, call-based, insurance, financial services, health, or marketplace.
  • Proven success profitably scaling brands across video performance platforms, with deep hands-on expertise in YouTube, Meta, and TikTok.
  • Comfortable building campaigns directly in-platform (campaign architecture, audience and bidding strategy, conversion event setup, testing design, budget pacing, daily optimization).
  • Strong grasp of monetization dynamics, advertiser quality metrics, funnel optimization, and scaling traffic profitably across variable-payout partner ecosystems.
  • Experience buying across multiple verticals at once, adapting structure, audience, creative, and messaging to distinct customer journeys.
  • Proficiency in BI tools (Looker, Google Analytics) plus advanced Excel/Sheets (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, regression, correlation, performance modeling).
  • Strong understanding of what drives high-performing video and how to adapt creative per platform.
  • Ability to move quickly on creative testing using AI and self-serve tools to develop concepts and iterate.
  • Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships across analytics, sales/account management, leadership, vertical stakeholders, creative, product, and external vendors.
  • Demonstrated experience owning P&L, hitting aggressive growth and profitability goals, and building repeatable playbooks that scale wins across brands and verticals.
  • Exceptional, proactive written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting insights and influencing decisions.

Skills

  • Google Ads
  • YouTube Ads
  • Meta Ads
  • TikTok Ads
  • Performance Marketing
  • Video Marketing
  • Campaign Management
  • P&L Management
  • Growth Strategy
  • Creative Testing
  • Data Analysis
  • BI Tools (Looker, Google Analytics)
  • Excel/Sheets
  • AI Tools for Creative Testing
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Problem-Solving
  • Adaptability
  • Leadership

Location

  • South Florida (Headquarters)
  • Remote-first

Work Type

  • Remote
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 8+ years managing high-growth performance marketing portfolios
  • 3+ years managing and scaling YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and/or other video-first portfolios with budgets of $20M+/year

Salary/Compensations

  • $150,000 to $170,000 per year

Benefits

  • Profit-sharing bonus
  • Competitive benefits

About the Company

  • Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company reaching over 30M+ monthly visitors through brands like FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState.
  • Mission: To connect consumers with the world’s leading brands through data-driven content and technology.
  • Headquartered in South Florida with a remote-first team spanning over 15 countries.
  • Culture: High-growth, high-performance culture where speed, ownership, and measurable impact drive success.

Equal Opportunity

  • We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company.
  • We value diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.