Manager, Paid Social

Location

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Remote US

Employment Type

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Full time

Location Type

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Remote

Department

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Marketing

Compensation

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* $120K – $140K • Offers Equity

OverviewSmalls is on a mission to make nine lives ten, building a brand that genuinely improves the lives of cats and their people. Today, many of the cat people who find Smalls find us on Meta. It's our largest acquisition channel and we’re looking for someone to fully own it.

You will fully own Paid Social performance from top to bottom. You’ll drive profitable growth by setting a sharp channel strategy and executing it in platform. You’ll be expected to run a highly efficient engine, make smart bets, and communicate performance insights clearly at all levels of the business.

This isn't a role for someone who wants to direct an agency from a dashboard, and it isn't a first time job.This is a hands-on, in-platform role for a seasoned operator who treats Meta as a craft: you know how the auction actually behaves, you have strong opinions about account structure and placement mix, and you can tell the difference between real performance signals and noise.

What you'll do

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• Own the channel end to end. You’ll drive budget, pacing, forecasting, campaign architecture, in-channel creative strategy, bidding, audiences, placement mix — the full stack of decisions that drive our largest paid channel. You'll be accountable for acquiring high quality customers at efficient CACs.
• Optimize for customer quality, not just cost. You'll be responsible for driving against both volume & quality targets — conversions, customer retention, LTV — and you'll tune targeting, creative selection, and bidding toward cohorts that stay, even when that makes the topline CAC number look worse in the short run.
• Bring the channel in house. Lead the transition from our hybrid agency model to f