Media Buyer

Media Buyer

Cape Town, South Africa | $2,500–$3,000 USD/month / Fully-Remote

We’re scaling every department at SpredX, and there’s a seat with your name on it. After welcoming our latest Media Buyer, we’re looking for another to join the team. Our South African team has already grown to five, and we’re just getting started.

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 Meta Ad accounts, including audience and campaign structure, budget allocation, and ongoing optimization across the funnel.
• 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.
• 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.