Media Buyer
Cape Town, South Africa (Remote) | Reports to: Founder & CEO
About Us
SpredX is a full stack AI-native growth agency for local businesses. We provide web development and hosting, an analytics suite, SEO & AEO services, ongoing content production, social media management, ads management, and CRM and leads automation - the whole growth stack, run by one team instead of five vendors.
Our mission is to become the market leader for local business growth, and we're building a team that can carry that mission with us. We run over 100 active clients with a 10-person team and 5% monthly churn, which means every person here owns real outcomes, not just tasks - and we build and use AI tooling ourselves to do the work of a much larger agency.
About the Role
We're hiring a Paid Media Buyer to own performance advertising across our client portfolio. You'll manage Google and Meta ad accounts end to end - strategy, setup, creative direction, optimization, and reporting - for local businesses who are trusting us with real marketing budgets and real growth targets.
This isn't a “set it and forget it” role. You'll be running dozens of accounts across different verticals at once, which means you need to be systematic, comfortable with AI-assisted workflows, and genuinely good at reading numbers and turning them into decisions. You'll work directly with our Founder & CEO and have a clear path to owning a growing book of client
accounts as we scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage Google Ads accounts across Search, Performance Max, Display, and YouTube - from campaign structure and keyword/audience strategy through daily bid, budget, and pacing management.
- Manage Meta Ad accounts, including audience and campaign structure, budget allocation, and ongoing optimization across the funnel.
- Own ad creative strategy: brief creative concepts, write ad copy, test hooks and formats, and use performance data to decide what to scale, refresh, or kill.
- Monitor account health and performance daily, catching underperformance, budget issues, or tracking problems before they cost the client money.
- Build and deliver monthly performance reports for clients - translating spend, CPL/CPA, ROAS, and other KPIs into clear takeaways and next steps.
- Use AI tools to speed up research, ad copywriting, reporting, and account audits, so you can manage a larger volume of accounts without sacrificing quality.
- Flag opportunities to expand or adjust a client's paid media investment based on performance, and help shape account strategy in client-facing conversations when needed.
- Implement SEO keyword research within accounts utilising the service.
What We're Looking For
Required:
- 2+ years of hands-on experience managing Google Ads and Meta Ads with real client or company budgets - not just certifications.
- Proven track record of hitting performance targets (CPL, CPA, ROAS, or similar) and being able to explain, in plain language, why an account performed the way it did.
- Comfortable managing multiple accounts across different industries simultaneously without losing attention to detail.
- Strong grasp of tracking and measurement - conversion tracking, UTM hygiene, and reading data in Google Analytics or similar platforms.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with a talent for fostering teamwork in a small, fast-moving team.
- Genuinely comfortable using AI tools day to day, and excited to keep adopting new ones as our internal stack evolves.
- Self-directed and reliable in a fully remote environment - we move fast and trust people to own their accounts.
Nice to have:
- Experience running paid media for local or service-based businesses (home services, medical, legal, hospitality, etc.).
- Experience with additional channels such as TikTok Ads, Microsoft/Bing Ads, or LinkedIn Ads.
- Prior agency experience managing a portfolio of client accounts rather than a single in-house budget.
What Success Looks Like
- In your first 30 days: you've audited your assigned accounts, understand each client's goals and historical performance, and are managing day-to-day optimizations independently.
- In your first 90 days: your accounts are hitting or beating their performance targets, your monthly reports are clear and client-ready with minimal edits, and you've identified at least one account with a clear opportunity to scale.
- Ongoing: clients trust your recommendations, your accounts are a reason clients stay (not churn), and you're using AI to manage more accounts, better, than a traditional media buyer could.
Why Join Us
- Growth-minded work culture with direct access to our Founder & CEO - no layers of management between you and real decisions.
- Fully remote working environment.
- Real ownership: you'll manage your own book of client accounts, not just execute someone else's plan.
- Significant opportunity for personal and professional growth as you prove yourself and scale with us - including a clear path to leading paid media for the whole agency.
- Hands-on exposure to AI-native workflows most agencies haven't built yet, in every part of the job.