Senior Media Buyer & Ecommerce Growth Specialist

Senior Media Buyer & Ecommerce Growth Specialist

Ecomm Growth Collective - ecommgrowthcollective.com

If you live and breathe eCommerce and Meta Ads - and you're just as comfortable talking brand growth strategy as you are inside Ads Manager - read on.

FULLY REMOTE PERMANENT FULL-TIME ROLE

This role is tied to the NZ time zone - you must be able to work 6+ hours per day between 9am and 5pm NZT to ensure crossover with team and clients.

About Us

Ecomm Growth Collective is a small, high-performing agency built around two co-founders and a tight team of experts. We work with a select group of high-growth ecommerce brands and pride ourselves on delivering the very best creative strategy and growth strategy advice in New Zealand. We're not trying to be the biggest agency - we're trying to be the best, and we only want to work with the best people in the industry to do it.

The Role

You’re already very good at Meta and Google. Now you want a role that challenges you to become exceptional at ecommerce growth strategy.

You want more than campaigns to optimise and ROAS targets to hit. You want ownership. You want to work with ambitious ecommerce brands, get under the hood of their businesses, influence creative and commercial strategy, and be trusted to make big decisions.

And you want to do it alongside other seriously good people who will challenge your thinking and make you better at what you do.

That’s the opportunity at Ecomm Growth Collective.

We’re looking for an ambitious, commercially minded Senior Paid Media & Ecommerce Growth Strategist to take ownership of a small portfolio of just 4–6 high-growth ecommerce brands.

This is a fully remote, permanent, full-time role, built around autonomy, trust and outcomes - not where you live or how many hours you spend online. You’ll have the freedom of remote work while being deeply embedded in a small, highly collaborative team of ecommerce specialists.

You won’t simply be the person running Meta and Google Ads. You’ll be the growth lead for your accounts - going deep into the numbers, understanding what’s really driving performance, shaping creative direction and helping clients make smarter decisions about where their next stage of growth will come from.

You’ll run paid media across Meta and Google Ads end-to-end, while working closely with our Creative Strategist and creative production team to connect the dots across channels, creative performance and the wider commercial picture.

This is a role for someone who wants to be challenged, wants their ideas to matter and wants the opportunity to become one of the best ecommerce growth strategists in the industry.

If you’re looking for a comfortable media buying role where you inherit some accounts, optimise what’s already there and send out monthly reports, this probably isn’t it.

If you’re ambitious, commercially sharp and slightly obsessed with figuring out why brands grow, you’ll probably fit in well here.

On a day-to-day basis, that means you will

• Own the growth strategy for 4–6 ecommerce accounts, acting as the single point of accountability for their performance and direction
• Run Meta and Google Ads media buying end-to-end, including campaign strategy, setup, implementation, optimisation and reporting
• Develop a joined-up paid media strategy, defining the role of each channel and allocating budgets based on commercial goals and performance
• Analyse channel, account and creative performance data and translate it into strategic recommendations, rather than only tactical changes
• Coordinate closely with our creative strategy and production team to brief, shape and evolve creative direction based on performance data
• Own the client relationship, from strategic briefings and reporting through to becoming a trusted advisor on their account
• Monitor pacing and delivery across Meta and Google Ads to ensure campaigns remain on track against budget and growth targets
• Deliver insight-led reporting that goes beyond platform metrics, sharing commercial learnings and evolving the strategy for each account

Requirements

• Deep, proven strategic experience in ecommerce - you understand what actually drives growth for DTC brands, beyond clicks and platform-reported performance
• A strong track record running Meta Ads for 7- and 8-figure ecommerce brands
• Hands-on experience managing Google Ads for ecommerce brands, with a strong understanding of how Meta and Google work together to drive profitable growth
• Highly analytical - you make decisions based on data and can go deep into the numbers to understand the story behind performance
• Experience developing and owning cross-channel account strategy, rather than simply executing against a brief
• A strong understanding of creative performance, with the ability to translate data into clear creative direction
• Comfortable building a joined-up Meta and Google Ads strategy, including budget allocation, channel roles and performance measurement
• Excellent communication skills - able to distil complex performance data into clear, strategic advice for clients
• Self-motivated and comfortable with a high degree of ownership - this role is for someone who wants full accountability for a small number of accounts, rather than oversight of many

Why this role is different

• True ownership - 4 to 6 accounts, full strategic control, not a rotating list of campaigns to optimise
• Work directly with a tight, senior team - including both co-founders - rather than inside a large account hierarchy
• Be part of an agency built around doing the best strategic work in the New Zealand ecommerce market, not the most volume
• Work with a select group of genuinely high-growth ecommerce brands
• Close collaboration with a dedicated creative strategy and production team so you're never carrying channel strategy alone