Media Strategist - Remote

We're QRY, a media-buying agency that specializes in scaling retail brands. We connect brand awareness and performance media to unlock growth, use sophisticated data analytics, and employ a full-funnel marketing strategy to help brands reach their most valuable consumers. We’re a high‑performance, high‑ownership team that values candor, curiosity, and results. We’re hiring a Paid Media Strategist to own channel performance across a portfolio of clients. You’ll plan, launch, and optimize social campaigns, keep budgets and pacing tight, and translate data into crisp decisions. This role involves successfully managing client campaigns in the digital advertising space across 4 main sectors:

Media Strategy:
You plan, book, and optimize paid media campaigns (i.e. Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and Reddit) for 6-8 clients, utilizing available media planning tools to develop media plans.
You strategize and implement A/B experiments to test audiences, creative, landing pages, offers, etc.
You facilitate campaign implementation, including asset collecting and trafficking.
Performance:
You act as a strategic advisor and recommend strategic pivots to increase the channel's performance.

You enthusiastically present reports to clients, highlighting the performance of your channels, how it assisted other channels in the funnel, how it affects the client's business, and recommended next steps.
You collaborate with the other media and creative agency team members to ensure the creative specifications of negotiated plans are met.
You consistently identify cross-channel strategies / collaborations with clients to improve performance.
Channel performance: MER/ROAS, CAC/LTV, revenue, efficiency) within budget and platform guardrails.
You run a disciplined test program with documented hypotheses, win rate, rollout decisions, and measurable lift.
Execution: You deliver decks, reports, and campaign launches with low error rates related to QA or data and you ensure QRY quality is represented in every outcome.
We’re a high‑performance culture with high support. We’re serious about setting clear goals, providing direct feedback, documenting our progress, and celebrating our wins. You’ll build trust with client and internal partners, learn each brand’s goals and constraints, and align on how success will be measured. You’ll review current channel setups and performance at a high level and agree on priorities and near‑term wins. After month one: You’ll own steady, predictable performance against plans and keep budgets and timelines on track. You’ll communicate often, surface risks early with options, and highlight opportunities for smart growth. Experience: You have 2-5 years of successful hands-on paid media management experience in an agency environment. You have experience leading and managing large media budgets for retail and e-commerce brands, with hands-on experience across paid media platforms including Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and Reddit. Ideally, you have a bachelor's degree in marketing, science, or a related field.
You have experience turning complex data into digestible reports, seeing the big picture, and breaking it down into an actionable plan that gets results. You also have experience with platform-native reporting, GA4, and Looker Studio.

• Experimentation: You have hands-on experimentation experience, including running A/B tests on audiences, creative, landing pages, or offers and turning results into rollout decisions.
• ​ Remote Work Environment: You understand the importance of a clean and quiet work environment suitable for video conferencing. You respect digital etiquette and ensure smooth virtual collaboration.

Quarterly bonuses. Enjoy quarterly bonuses tied to company revenue.
USA remote flexibility. Choose your ideal workspace, whether it’s your home office or a coffee shop.
Take advantage of our unlimited PTO policy.
We offer exceptional health, dental, and vision insurance, fully covered for employees by QRY. Nurture your learning and development with our investment to L&D, growth opportunities, and tools such as our Learning & Development Philosophy + Policy, role matrices, and skill assessments.
Join us for annual team retreats (we’ve been to Austin, Tennessee, and Utah to name a few), weekly Coffee Chats, and monthly Happy Hours to foster our vibrant culture.