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Paid Acquisition Manager Jobs
Run paid ads at scale. Own CAC, ROAS, and the LTV math.
What is a Paid Acquisition Manager?
Paid Acquisition is the channel that scales fastest and breaks fastest. The role owns Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and increasingly programmatic — running budgets from $50K to $5M monthly. Best-fit candidates can talk LTV/CAC like a CFO and creative-testing like an art director. Most have a primary platform (Meta or Google) plus a secondary they've gotten profitable. The job has gotten harder since iOS 14 — anyone claiming Meta is easy hasn't run paid since 2021. The interesting work right now is in creative testing volume, signal optimization, and incrementality.
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191 open Paid Acquisition Manager roles
Analista de Paid Media - Data y Performance
Grupo Quest • Vicente López, Buenos Aires-GBA
Paid Media Planner
Blacksip • Cali, Valle del Cauca
Gerente de Performance Marketing
Desarrolladora inmobiliaria Spazios • Caseros, Buenos Aires-GBA
Senior Performance Marketing Specialist (B2B)
DoorDash • Mexico City Metropolitan Area
Senior Associate, Merchant Performance Marketing
DoorDash • Mexico City Metropolitan Area
Performance Marketing Manager
Revenue Labs • Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Senior Performance Marketing Manager, B2B SaaS
ClinicPro.ai • Argentina
Paid Media Specialist
Threshold Agency • Desde casa
Senior User Acquisition Manager, Search Ads
Ruby Labs • European Union
User Acquisition Manager - Mobile Games
Voodoo • Paris
Performance Marketing Manager, Paid Search & AI Advertising
Langchain • San Francisco, CA
Head of Performance Marketing
OpenAI • San Francisco
Senior Account Manager, Paid Media (Omnichannel)
DEPT® • US - Remote
Account Manager, Paid Media (Omnichannel)
DEPT® • US - Remote
Senior Performance Marketing Manager
Fingerprint • Chicago, IL
Director of Paid Media
LHH • United States
Senior Manager, Paid Media (Remote)
Alliance Animal Health • Charlotte, NC
Director of Performance Marketing
Inspira Education • New York, NY
Performance Marketing Lead
Nooks • San Francisco
Paid Media Manager, SEA & Social Ads (H/F)
Pickers • Paris, Île-de-France, France
Head of Growth (H/F) - Performance Marketing
Lucca • Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Senior Performance Marketing Manager
Lemfi • London
Performance Marketing Specialist, Meta & TikTok (Milan)
Pillar Srl • Milan
Performance Marketing Specialist, Google Ads (Milan)
Pillar Srl • Milan
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About Paid Acquisition Manager careers
What does a Paid Acquisition Manager do?
Owns paid ad spend across Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and programmatic. Manages budgets from $50K to $5M monthly. Owns CAC, ROAS, and creative testing velocity.
Paid Acquisition Manager salary?
In the US: $95K-$200K base, plus 10-25% bonus tied to ROAS or CAC targets. Senior practitioners running $1M+ monthly budgets at growth-stage companies hit $250K+ total comp.
Is paid acquisition still a good career bet?
Yes, but harder than 2018-2021. iOS 14, signal loss, and platform consolidation made the work more analytical. Pure-buyer roles are getting commoditized; creative-testing-and-attribution roles are not.
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