UFCU - Paid Media Manager Temp

Digital Marketer is needed in Austin, United States.

Client: UFCU

Location: Austin, TX

Contract: Temporary

Job Description

The Temporary Paid Media Manager is responsible for leading UFCU’s paid media strategy across digital and traditional channels, including performance marketing, local media buys, and publisher partnerships. This hands-on, collaborative role also involves media planning, execution, and optimization while translating business objectives into actionable strategies. It requires close partnerships with Product Marketing Managers and the Creative team to ensure alignment on media strategies, messaging, and creative deliveries. The Paid Media Manager also oversees spend tracking, creative delivery, and performance outcomes, ensuring the efficiency and compliance of media investments.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Analytics, or a related field.
• 3 to 5 plus years of experience managing paid media across digital and/or traditional channels.
• Experience working with and coordinating multiple agencies or media partners.
• Experience analyzing performance data and contributing optimization recommendations.
• Experience tracking media spend, pacing, and performance reporting.
• Experience supporting transitions from agency-led to in-house media management.
• Must be bondable.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience placing media buys directly with publishers or vendors.
• Financial services or regulated-industry marketing experience.
• Familiarity with GA4, attribution tools, or media mix modeling concepts.
• Bilingual in Spanish.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Knowledge:

• Paid media strategy across digital and traditional channels.
• Media buying principles, vendor negotiations, and publisher partnerships.
• Paid media platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, and LinkedIn, and non-digital channels including print and local media.
• Media performance measurement, attribution concepts, and ROI analysis.
• Compliance and regulatory considerations for financial services advertising (a bonus).

Skills:

• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, manage agencies, and drive outcomes through influence.
• Hands-on paid media execution and optimization across multiple channels.
• Strong skills in spend tracking, pacing management, and performance reporting.
• Analytical skills to evaluate performance trends and support optimization recommendations.
• High attention to detail, particularly related to creative QA, rotations, and execution accuracy.
• Clear written and verbal communication for presenting insights and collaborating across teams.

Abilities:

• Manage multiple campaigns, agencies, and media partners simultaneously.
• Support agency to in-house transitions for paid media execution.
• Balance strategic planning with hands-on execution.
• Collaborate effectively in shared decision-making environments.
• Maintain accountability for performance quality, accuracy, and media stewardship.

Core Competencies

• Demonstrating Member Obsession: Puts themselves in the Member’s shoes, looks for friction points, makes it personalized and easy.
• Demonstrating Performance Excellence: Sets standards for elevating excellence, ensures elevated quality, takes responsibility, conducts continuous improvement.
• Demonstrating Innovation: Challenges current thinking, approaches change with a positive mindset.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee, with or without accommodation, to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must regularly sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will make extensive use of the telephone and virtual communications requiring the ability to explain complex information effectively and accurately.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This position requires working onsite three days a week at UFCU Plaza in Austin, Texas. It may involve periodic stressful conditions, and an adjusted work schedule, overtime, and evening/weekend hours may be required. Frequent computer use at a workstation of up to two hours at a time is expected, with a usual moderate noise level in the work environment.

Additional Information

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