Paid Media Strategist II – APAC

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What You'll Do

• Develop and execute the regional paid media strategy across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, and newer platforms such as OpenAI ads.

• Monitor campaign performance daily, adjusting bids, budgets, targeting, and creative to meet KPIs.

• Build full-funnel campaigns, from awareness to lead generation and conversion. Tailored to regional audiences and go-to-market priorities.

• Lead audience strategy including segmentation, targeting, and retargeting across platforms.

• Design and run A/B tests on creative, copy, bidding strategies, and landing pages to continuously improve performance.

• Partner with regional marketing, sales, and product teams to align campaigns with launches, seasonal initiatives, and market-specific needs.

• Help establish reporting frameworks and deliver regular performance insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

• Stay up to date on competitive activity, platform changes, new features, and paid media trends, and share relevant findings with the team.

• Share best practices and help build a consistent paid media framework across the global team.
  

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing paid search and paid social campaigns.

• Deep platform expertise in Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, LinkedIn Campaign Manager and Meta Ads Manager.

• Proven ability to manage significant media budgets and deliver against pipeline and revenue KPIs.

• Ability to operate independently, set priorities, and drive projects forward in a global, complex organization.

• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to translate data into clear narratives for marketing and sales leadership.

• Strong analytical skills with experience in Google Analytics 4, Looker Studio, or similar reporting and analytics tools.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience planning and managing paid media for B2B industrial brands.

• Familiarity with regional digital marketing nuances, audience behaviors, and media landscapes across the APAC region, particularly countries such as Vietnam, India, and Malaysia.

• Familiarity with SEO tools such as SEMrush or Google Search Console, and the ability to use organic search data to inform paid campaign targeting and messaging.

• Familiarity with attribution modeling and multi-touch measurement approaches.

• Comfort working with CRM and marketing automation data to inform campaign strategy.

• Experience working across multiple time zones and cultures in a global organization.

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