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Senior Paid Social Buyer

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Los Angeles, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 8/15/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/12/2026

Rare opportunity


Our client runs one of the largest Meta operations in the world: a nine-figure, Meta-first paid engine spanning five countries, built by a global fintech that has already proven its model internationally and is now pointed at the US.


They are hiring the deep Meta specialist who still wants to operate the platform every day. The trader who knows account structure, signal and scaling mechanics inside out, and who wants to apply that craft at a scale very few accounts anywhere can offer.


What you’ll own

  • Hands-on Meta campaign management at scale. Structure, bidding, pacing, testing, scaling, troubleshooting, landing-page feedback.
  • The agency and the platform. The working relationship with the incumbent media buying agency and with Meta itself: manage them, drive them, and challenge assumptions through independent analysis and rigorous account-level oversight.
  • Internal buying capability in a key international market. Reverse-engineer the affiliate acquisition machine across offers, funnels, creative, audiences, tracking, unit economics and scaling patterns.
  • The playbook that comes out of it. Turn that deep dive into an actionable internal playbook, testing roadmap and repeatable operating capability the company owns.
  • New channels, earned on the economics. Launch TikTok, then other paid-social channels where the numbers justify the investment.
  • The full conversion journey. Tight partnership with creative strategy, CRO, analytics and technology teams, fueled by an in-house content studio operating at top-1% volume, velocity and variation.
  • The US market. Primary focus, with occasional global time-zone coverage when a material account issue demands it (rare).


What we’re looking for

  • Roughly 4 years actively trading Meta, with the platform as a genuine specialist strength.
  • Real spend, actually scaled. First-hand evidence of scaling large DTC or direct-response accounts and deploying several million dollars or more a year, having lived the journey from early spend to real scale.
  • Deep command of modern Meta mechanics. Signal interpretation, creative feedback loops, account structure, the post-Andromeda landscape. You’ve been hands-on in the platform recently.
  • Channel range without dilution. Launching TikTok or another paid-social channel is valuable, provided it never came at the cost of your Meta depth.
  • Agency pedigree welcome. Experience with rapidly scaling brands is attractive. Practical operating evidence matters more than broad marketing credentials.
  • Show, don’t tell. Comfort walking through real dashboards, workflows and decision logic during the interview process.


What success looks like

  • Internal Meta judgment improves quickly, so the team can verify agency decisions independently.
  • Acquisition in that market becomes repeatable, while TikTok and other channels launch through disciplined, economics-led tests.


Mindset and approach

  • A quant-driven trader who genuinely loves the platform. You want to go deeper, not sideways into management.
  • Organized, autonomous, decisive. Comfortable managing stakeholders and the platform relationship without hiding behind process.
  • A craft seat, not a management seat. High-autonomy individual contributor: no team to manage, maximum ownership of the work itself.


About the company

Our client helps millions of families access an essential financial product by making it simple, affordable and fast.

  • A trillion-dollar category with almost no disruption. They built a new model for a product that had resisted change for decades: no paperwork maze, no waiting weeks, an answer in minutes.
  • A $1B-exited founder. The founder built and sold a comparable business in another market for roughly $1 billion, then ran the same play again. The model is proven across several countries.
  • World-class creative infrastructure. An in-house studio turns out creative at a volume, velocity and variation only the top sliver of Meta advertisers can match. You will not be starved of assets.
  • A real business, not a hype brand. Profitable, founder-led, privately owned, growing roughly 40% a year. No decks, no committees, no approval chains.


Why now

Our client has proved the model internationally and is now pointing it at the biggest market in the world. Meta is the engine that got them here, and today that engine runs through an outside agency. This seat brings the craft in-house, at full scale, from day one.

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