13+ Media Buying Jobs in India

Problem Statement

Communicating our message effectively to the users via the right digital channels.

Responsibilities

● Build and deploy ads through paid channels at the direction of the campaign manager.

● Own and perform diligent and detail-oriented QA throughout the entire campaign process, with an emphasis on campaign tracking and Google Analytics setup.

● Support campaigns through traffic management that includes setup and implementation, testing, quality assurance, deployment, delivery, and optimization of ad campaigns.

● Extract data and insights from the entire lifecycle of digital campaigns that include but are not limited to Display, Social, SEM, Programmatic, Native, etc.

● Partner with internal teams to ensure all ad products are thoroughly vetted for operational use.

● Support channel managers directly with clear communication and delivery workflows that ensure transparency into deliverable timelines and potential delays.

● Troubleshoot technical issues, including malfunctioning tags, ad creative, click-through URLs, and landing pages, etc. and correct problems with client advertising campaigns.

● Proactively seek out new tools and opportunities to improve our advertising efforts.

● Participate in or facilitate special marketing projects as required

Requirements

● 3+ years of experience with Programmatic Ad Planning, Execution & Analysis.

● Experience with App first businesses will be an advantage (travel,

transportation/commute & e-commerce Exp)

● High affinity for people who've worked on targeting US customers.

● You should possess knowledge of Marketing analytics, Attribution, and Planning tools (e.g. Appsflyer, Firebase, etc.)

● Hands-on experience with DV360, Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, Programmatic, Contextual Ads, Native Advertising & affiliates.

● Deep understanding of Google & Facebook paid to advertise. ●Knowledge of SEO will give you a competitive advantage.

● Have proven experience in managing B2C campaigns.

● Hands-on experience in managing the marketing budget at scale along with the business objectives & KPIs like CPA, CPI, CPM, CAC/LTV, Acquisition, Remarketing, Cross-Sell, Up-Sell, etc.

● Exceptional project management and communications skills are essential to collaborating with a remote team.

● Strong process orientation & documentation ethic. Strong analytical skills.

● Growth mindset and willingness to learn.

● Must have experience with Outbrain, Taboola & Other third-party networks

Potential Growth Paths

● Performance Marketing Manager

● Campaign Manager

● Customer Marketing Manager

● Content Marketing Manager

About Airblack

Airblack is India’s largest online skilling academy, helping people become micro-entrepreneurs or get flexible opportunities through innovative “do-it-together” (DIT) courses.

In three years, Airblack's beauty academy has trained over 35,000 students in 200+ cities as Makeup Artists, helping them start their businesses as freelancers, studio owners, or earning influencers. We have also forayed into hospitality and culinary and helped over 500 bakers launch a baking business with our Certified Professional Baking Course

Airblack is backed by marquee investors such as Info Edge Ventures, Elevation Capital, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Blume Founders Fund, Better Capital and Mars Shot Ventures. We have also been recognized by the Beauty & Wellness Sector Skill Council & Skill India as a government-certified beauty skilling partner. Airblack has also been recognized by Forbes as a “Select 200” company with global business potential.

Who are we looking for?

At Airblack, we're entering a path of exponential growth, aiming to grow our revenue tenfold within the next two years while bolstering our profitability. In this pivotal phase, we seek a dynamic Performance Marketer responsible for planning, implementing, and optimizing high-performing advertising campaigns across various online channels, including Google Ads and Meta Ads, to increase company sales and brand awareness. This role requires a combination of analytical, creative, and strategic thinking to develop scalable and efficient campaign structures.

The ideal candidate would be driven by a blend of creative problem-solving and analytical prowess and thrive in a high-ownership environment. If this sounds like you, we would love to meet you.

What would you be doing?

• Performance Marketing: Develop, execute and manage lead acquisition for the Airblack inside-sales team by efficiently planning, executing and scaling up performance marketing campaigns on Facebook, Google and other digital media platforms
• Perform daily account management, check campaign performance, and adjust bids to enhance campaign efficiency.
• Optimize performance across ad channels by testing and tuning ads, keywords, and bid strategies.
• Analytics & Instrumentation: Contribute to the analytics muscle of the Growth function with in-depth data analyses and set-up tech instrumentation to scale operations
• Experimentation & User Insights: Deliver continuous user insights, solutions discovery and experimentations across both 0-to-1 and scale-up revenue initiatives
• Go-To-Market Operations: Execute end-to-end operations on GTM, leads CRM and revenue optimization initiatives.
• Creative Strategy: Be a creative powerhouse in acquisition advertising by ideating and producing best-in-class video and static ad properties, user communications and landing pages
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with the Growth, Design, Brand, Tech, Product and Inside-sales functions to advance cross-function revenue and profitability goals.
• Key Ownership: Own key metrics like ROAS, CAC, Lead Conversion % and Revenue

What makes you a suitable candidate?

We would love to hear from you if you meet the qualifications below:

• Experience: 1+ years in digital performance marketing with a high-growth startup preferably in the education / ed-tech space
• Understanding of custom audiences and lookalike audiences.
• Ability to generate and install the Facebook pixel, and Google Analytics.
• Strong understanding of bidding techniques (AutoBid, CPC, CPM, oCPM)
• Expertise in creating ads and ad copies.
• Education: A bachelor's degree in any discipline is required from a tier 1 college
• You have managed upwards of 20 Lakhs in ad spending
• You are a marketing geek and can come up with creative ideas at scale
• You are thoroughly data-driven in decision-making; with good Excel skills. Experience in SQL is a bonus!
• You have a proven track record of taking high ownership and willingness to execute hands-on when needed
• You have a knack for driving 0-to-1 rapid experimentation initiatives and 1-100 standardized operational initiatives

Why should you join Airblack?

• Empowering Entrepreneurs: We cultivate a culture of entrepreneurship where individuals are employees and owners of their work.
• Experimentation & Build: Our Growth team fosters a culture of rapid experimentation, freedom to fail & iterate, and owning scale-up through process building.
• Unrestricted Autonomy: When confronted with a challenge, you have the authority to take charge, exhibiting determination and resilience to overcome obstacles and ultimately succeed.
• Drive for Success: Embrace challenges head-on, applying your skills and expertise to accomplish tasks precisely and excellently.
• Thriving Market Opportunity: Join us on an exhilarating journey as we pioneer India's inaugural platform for passion skills, offering a unique and vibrant market to shape and build upon.
• Work with a stellar team: Great missions require great people - and we are fortunate to have some of the smartest and nicest people support us in our journey. Our team comprises ex-entrepreneurs, VCs, and operators from places such as Goldman Sachs, Paytm, Oyo, Bain & Co., BCG, Urban Company, top IITs and universities such as DU and NIFT.

About the role

We are looking for a skilled Performance Marketer for Insane Marketers who can optimize ad exposure and add Insane value to the campaign strategies. Responsible for growing revenue through digital media by executing marketing campaigns, and extracting and analyzing data across multiple channels.

Responsibilities

• Conducting market research and analyzing demographics, media usage, psychographics, and buying patterns to define the target audience and campaign requirements.
• Proofreading advertising material before launching campaigns.
• Coordinating and overseeing the development and launch of campaigns
• Run Google Ads, and FB ads and manage complete responsibility of Google and Social media ads with an advanced understanding of marketing, and funnels, and comfortable with Google and Facebook Campaigns Strategy, optimization, and Analytics.
• Creating and managing Multiple Campaigns with the Right Ad Copy, optimizing the ad copy, and landing pages for the best quality leads
• Identifying the target audience for a particular media campaign and deciding how best to communicate to that audience
• Analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of the campaign and using this data to inform future campaigns
• Collaborate with cross-functional team to develop creative solutions to address client’s business challenges
• Well aware of segmentation of Budget across the funnel, and ensure the right ads are shown to the right audiences.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a media buyer.
• Prior Experience running Google or Facebook Advertising campaigns
• Good understanding of media analytics tools such as Google Analytics, and strong computer skills with programs such as MS Office, Google Suite
• The ability to collaborate with others and work as part of a team.
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills.
• Strong communication and networking abilities.

Benefits-

• Health insurance.
• All books ordered in the domain that Insane works in will be reimbursed.
• The freedom to manage your own time, location, and schedule (we have no physical office or set working hours).
• 5 days working.
• In-house training to grow your skills
• The opportunity to work with an innovative team of people with an awesome company culture
• The chance to grow, be challenged, and develop with Insane marketers
• Day shift.
• Willing to relocate to Bangalore or be based in Bangalore for this position

About you

• You’re numbers-driven.
• You love data.
• You're passionate and driven.
• You have a sharp eye for detail.
• You're proactive and reactive.
• You have 2+ years in paid media buying.

• Company  Activation Specialist team is accountable for tactical Buying and implementation for a set of clients.
• WM Activation Specialist team to understands clients’ brand identity. Agency’s deliverables and campaign KPI’s.
• Understand the campaign brief received from Agency Specialist lead, and provide benchmarking/ planning rates / final negotiation in line with SOP.
• Coordination with other stakeholders, mainly the WM Planning team for deal closures
• Negotiate with Vendors for your activation plan including campaign value adds, FCT management, campaign execution etc.
• Optimize the activation plan to achieve the objectives/ KPI.
• Close the optimized plan with Activation Specialist lead.
• Track the live campaigns on daily/ weekly basis in terms of spot implementation, campaign performance, mid- evaluations etc.
• Campaign management including performance and corrective measures. Campaign inflight optimization is compulsorily done for every single campaign
• Follow end to end process for Campaign execution and Campaign management.

Responsibilities will include:

• Define the brand’s marketing strategy, deliver against app brand objectives
• Drive the development and execution of integrated marketing campaigns at national/regional levels
• Develop, manage, and analyzes branding campaigns across marketing channels - offline and online
• Coordinate with agency and internal design team to execute the campaign
• Analyze campaigns and provide strategic recommendations

Attributes we value:

• Strong analytical foundation with meticulous attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong intellectual curiosity
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented
• Proficiency in Excel

Requirements:

• Graduation/Post-Graduation from a tier-1 institute
• Demonstrative experience in executing brand campaigns
• Work-ex: 4 - 8 years