Director of Paid Media, Performance Video at Launch Potato | British Columbia, CA | Rezi

Director of Paid Media, Performance Video at Launch Potato

Director of Paid Media, Performance Video

Launch Potato · British Columbia, CA

1 months ago

Director of Paid Media, Performance Video

Launch Potato · British Columbia, CA

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 video-first platforms. This role involves hands-on campaign management, strategy, execution, P&L management, and scaling campaigns while creating systems for growth. The initial focus is on Insurance verticals, with future expansion into streaming, linear TV, Meta, TikTok, and other emerging video channels.

Responsibilities

  • Own P&L and performance for Insurance YouTube campaigns, including spend, pacing, reporting, operations, and profitability.
  • Execute campaigns directly in Google Ads, managing campaign 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 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, offers, formats, and testing priorities.
  • Partner with the creative team and utilize AI/self-serve tools for rapid creative testing.
  • Proactively 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.
  • Depth in Google/YouTube Ads architecture, bidding, audience strategy, conversion events, and analytics.
  • Ability to build and troubleshoot directly in-platform.
  • Experience managing budget at scale against growth, ROAS, and margin goals.
  • Ability to connect customer psychology and funnel stage to creative that performs.
  • Experience buying across multiple distinct customer types and product categories.
  • Experience driving and optimizing inbound call traffic, intent, and quality.
  • Ability to articulate data, recommendations, and POV clearly for leadership alignment.
  • Ability to turn performance data into growth strategies across campaigns, creative, and landing pages.
  • Ability to test, iterate, and run multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • Readiness to grow into building and leading a video team.
  • Ability to build campaigns to scale, even when deviating from standard best practice.
  • Proven success profitably scaling brands across video performance platforms, with deep hands-on expertise in YouTube, Meta, and TikTok.
  • Comfort living in-platform and building campaigns directly.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ability to build strong 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.
  • Exceptional, proactive written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting insights and influencing decisions.

Skills

  • Performance Video Growth
  • YouTube Ads
  • Meta Ads
  • TikTok Ads
  • Campaign Management
  • P&L Management
  • Strategy Development
  • Execution
  • Reporting
  • Growth Targets
  • Creative Testing
  • Operating Cadence
  • Insurance Marketing
  • Lead Generation
  • Call Generation
  • Call Quality Optimization
  • ROAS Optimization
  • Lead Quality Optimization
  • Margin Optimization
  • Creative Strategy
  • AI Tools for Creative Testing
  • Cross-functional Communication
  • Playbook Development
  • Team Building
  • Google Ads
  • Audience Strategy
  • Bidding Strategy
  • Conversion Events
  • Targeting
  • Exclusions
  • Testing Frameworks
  • Multi-Vertical Scaling
  • Affiliate Marketing
  • Financial Services Marketing
  • Health Marketing
  • Marketplace Marketing
  • BI Tools (Looker, Google Analytics)
  • Advanced Excel/Sheets
  • Performance Modeling
  • Video Creative Judgment
  • Customer Psychology
  • Funnel Optimization
  • AI-enabled Speed
  • Cross-functional Partnership
  • P&L Ownership
  • Measurement Sophistication (MMM, incrementality, geo holdouts, brand lift)
  • Competitive Intelligence Tools (SimilarWeb, AdBeat, Ahrefs, SpyFu, Pathmatics)
  • Regulated Marketing Environments

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

About the Company

  • Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company reaching over 30M+ monthly visitors.
  • Brands include 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

  • Committed to having a diverse, inclusive team and culture.
  • Proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company.
  • Value diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • 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.