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Digital Marketing/Communications Senior Specialist: Paid Media Activation — Programmatic, Paid Social & Paid Search
Cox Automotive
Atlanta GA; Atlanta, GA - 6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd Bldg A; Remote - Kansas Central Timezone; Remote - New York; Remote - Illinois; Remote-Texas Central Timezone-100; Remote - Florida; Remote - Michigan
Source: Cox Automotive careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $74,000 — $111,000 USD per year
- Employment
- full time
Employer job description
From Cox Automotive's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
Company
Cox Automotive - USA
Job Family Group
Marketing
Job Profile
- Digital Marketing / Communications Sr Specialist
- Management Level
- Individual Contributor
- Flexible Work Option
- Can work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or region
Travel %
Yes, 5% of the time
Work Shift
Day
Compensation
Compensation
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $74,000.00 - $111,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Job Description
*This position is remote/work from home. You need to reside within the Eastern or Central Time Zones (Atlanta is preferred). If you live near any of the office locations listed, the role will be hybrid.
The Digital Marketing / Communications Senior Specialist leads day-to-day activation of paid media campaigns across programmatic display and video, paid social, paid search, and account-based marketing in support of a subset of brands and products. This role builds and launches campaigns in demand-side and self-serve buying platforms, owns quality assurance before every launch, runs in-flight performance checks, and produces the campaign reporting that marketing partners rely on to judge results.
As paid media activation moves in-house, this role owns the operating standards that make the work repeatable: campaign taxonomy, naming conventions, QA checklists, and launch readiness criteria. The Senior Specialist works closely with the Manager on buying strategy and budget, with the Trafficker on creative and tag delivery, with Marketing Analytics on measurement and attribution requirements, and with MarTech on audience activation.
Proactively recommends new platform capabilities, targeting approaches, and optimization tactics based on observed performance.
What You’ll Do
- Campaign Build & Activation
- Builds and launches programmatic display and video campaigns in DV360 and partner demand-side platforms, configuring line items, inventory targeting, frequency caps, and pacing.
- Builds and launches paid social campaigns across platforms including Meta, LinkedIn, and YouTube, configuring objectives, placements, audiences, and delivery settings.
- Builds and launches paid search campaigns including keyword structure, match types, ad copy variants, extensions, negative keyword lists, and bid strategy selection.
- Configures audience targeting across retargeting, lookalike, intent-based, and first-party segments activated from the enterprise customer data platform.
- Leads day-to-day management of campaign activation across all three disciplines, sequencing build work against launch calendars and creative delivery dates.
- Coordinates with the Trafficker and respective teams on creative specifications, tag delivery, and landing page readiness ahead of go-live.
- Quality Assurance, Taxonomy & Launch Governance
- Owns pre-launch quality assurance across all paid media campaigns, verifying targeting, budgets, flight dates, creative rendering, tracking, and landing page function.
- Owns campaign taxonomy and naming standards so spend and performance roll up consistently across platforms, brands, and reporting environments.
- Maintains the campaign launch checklist and enforces completion of tracking, creative, approval, and testing requirements before any campaign goes live.
- Implements version control for campaign assets and audience definitions to prevent errors from outdated materials.
- Documents build procedures and platform-specific configuration guides as the activation function is established.
- In-Flight Monitoring & Optimization
- Runs scheduled in-flight performance checks, monitoring pacing, delivery, and efficiency against plan and flagging variances for resolution.
- Executes optimizations within defined guardrails, including bid adjustments, budget shifts across line items, audience refinement, and underperforming placement exclusions.
- Creates and executes test plans across ad copy, creative, audiences, and landing pages, and applies results to subsequent flights.
- Escalates delivery, inventory quality, or measurement issues to the Manager with a recommended course of action.
- Builds and maintains negative keyword lists and placement exclusion lists to improve efficiency and prevent wasted spend.
- Reporting & Performance Analysis
- Produces recurring campaign reporting by platform, campaign, and audience, and provides written performance commentary to marketing partners.
- Designs and maintains paid media dashboards giving stakeholders visibility into impressions, click-through rate, cost per click, cost per lead, cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, viewability, and video completion rate.
Benefits
- The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
About Us
Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox.
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page.
Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.
EOE, including disability/vets
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.
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