Paid Media Buyer

Paid 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 3x more to join the team.

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. We run over 100 active clients with a lean team, and we build and use our own AI tooling so every person does the work of a much larger agency. We’ve doubled in the last three months, and we’re hiring to keep pace.

About the Role

You’ll own performance advertising across our client portfolio, managing Google and Meta ad accounts end to end: strategy, setup, creative direction, optimization and reporting. Our clients are home services, medical, legal and other local businesses trusting us with real budgets and real growth targets.

This isn’t a “set it and forget it” role. You’ll run dozens of accounts across different industries at once, so you need to be systematic, data-driven and comfortable with AI-assisted workflows. You’ll work directly with our Founder & CEO and have a clear path to owning a growing book of 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

• A clear path to lead. Grow into leading paid media for the whole agency as we scale.
• Direct access to our Founder & CEO. No layers of management between you and real decisions.
• Real ownership. You manage your own book of client accounts, not someone else’s plan.
• AI-native from day one. Hands-on with workflows most agencies haven’t built yet.