Launch2
Lead, Paid Marketing, Make & Manage Money
Los Angeles, CA (remote); Portland, OR (remote); San Diego, CA (remote); Seattle, WA (remote). Posted 2 days ago
The role
This person will own and run the paid media portfolio for the Make & Manage Money business across Google and Microsoft. They will set the plan, build campaigns, manage budget and profitability, and push partner teams for needed changes.
What you will do
- Set strategy and execute across Google Search, Demand Gen, YouTube, and Microsoft audience and native inventory, including MSN.
- Manage budget allocation, pacing, forecasting, reporting, and profitability for the portfolio.
- Build a prioritized growth plan naming the biggest constraints and the tests most likely to move the business.
- Make the case to Sales, Account Management, Yield, Creative, Product, and Analytics, and follow through until changes land.
- Handle campaign architecture, bidding, targeting, conversion signals, exclusions, tracking, and testing discipline.
- Test new inventory and platforms with a clear hypothesis and a defined stopping point.
- Build playbooks that help the broader paid team.
Required qualifications
- Profitably scaled affiliate or consumer lead generation, with direct ownership of $10M or more in annual media spend.
- Experience buying traffic to competitive affiliate listicles, comparison pages, or multi-offer marketplaces.
- Hands-on depth in Google Ads or Microsoft Ads, and the range to own a portfolio across both.
- Experience scaling across Search, Display, Demand Gen, YouTube, and native placements.
- Working knowledge of affiliate economics: partner payouts, revenue per click, conversion rates, offer mix, traffic quality, ROAS, and margin.
- Ability to identify the actual constraint (buying, creative, landing page, offer, payout, or measurement) and bring a clear ask to the owning team.
- Clear, direct communication, including short performance updates.
Nice to have
- Running across several consumer categories or variable-payout partner programs.
- Using AI and self-serve creative tools to speed up analysis and asset iteration.
- Working with competitive intelligence tools and in regulated consumer categories.
- Building playbooks or mentoring other media buyers.
Benefits
- Profit sharing annual bonus based on company and personal performance.
Before you apply
- Only apply if you have directly owned and profitably scaled $10M or more a year in paid media for affiliate or consumer lead generation.
- Claude is part of the daily workflow, with room to automate analysis, concepting, and creative iteration.
About the company
Launch Potato is a discovery and conversion company that reaches tens of millions of people monthly through brands including FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState. It runs profitable and bootstrapped, with a South Florida HQ and a remote-first team across 18 countries.