Director,
Paid Media

We’re a remote-first team trusted by category leaders like AWS, ClassPass, PitchBook, AG1, and Skyscanner. At Intrepid, you’ll do the best work of your career with people who care about craft, impact, and each other.

What we offer

• Fully remote work from anywhere with flexible hours
• Unlimited holidays
• Above-market compensation
• Incredible clients and complex, meaningful problems
• A high-caliber team that shares knowledge, ships, and wins together

In return, we look for people who go the extra mile when it matters and work smarter than most: owners who pair sharp thinking with crisp execution.

This is a client-facing leadership role. As our Director, Paid Media, you will be comfortable presenting complex strategies to clients and able to think on your feet in meetings. Clients will look to you to explain what we are doing, why it works, and what comes next, and you’ll answer questions and adapt in the moment.

You are a generalist, not a single-channel specialist. You have experience across search, social, and programmatic, and you know how to combine them into a plan tied to each client’s goals. You’ll own paid media strategy and performance across a portfolio of accounts, lead and support our Senior Media Buyers, and collaborate with strategy, creative, and analytics.

• Lead the client conversation: Present complex paid media strategies, performance, and recommendations to clients clearly and with confidence. Think on your feet in meetings, answering questions and adjusting the plan in the moment.
• Own paid media strategy across channels: Set channel and campaign strategy across search, social, and programmatic based on client goals, audience, offer, and funnel, and decide where each channel earns its budget.
• Own performance: Take accountability for results on key accounts. Manage spend efficiently against ROAS/CAC/MER targets and proactively flag issues before they become problems.
• Lead and support the team: Guide Senior Media Buyers and the paid media team on campaign structure, testing plans, and optimization, and keep accounts clean, organized, and consistently documented.
• Build a testing discipline: Create and maintain testing plans for creatives, audiences, bids/budgets, and landing pages. Log tests and outcomes in shared documentation so learnings are visible across the team.
• Make the numbers meaningful: Ensure tracking is properly set up (pixels, events, conversions, UTMs, GA4, etc.) and build performance reports that highlight the “so what,” not just a dump of numbers.
• Collaborate across teams: Work with account leads, strategy, creative, and analytics. Brief new assets with feedback rooted in performance data, and weigh in on landing pages and funnels where they materially impact paid performance.

• Client-facing, first and foremost: You are comfortable presenting complex strategies to clients and able to think on your feet in meetings. You can explain the “why” behind a plan in plain language, field questions as they come, and adapt on the spot while keeping clients’ trust.
• A generalist across paid channels: You have hands-on experience across search, social, and programmatic, with the judgment to know where each channel fits and how they work together.
• Performance at scale: You have a proven record of scaling spend while maintaining or improving efficiency (ROAS/CAC).
• Multi-account leadership: You are at ease working across multiple client accounts at once and helping others do the same.
• Funnel thinking: You understand customer journeys and funnels, and how paid traffic fits into the bigger picture.
• Hypothesis-driven: You think in terms of hypotheses, tests, and learnings, not random tweaks.

Nice to have

• Experience in ecommerce / B2B / Sports & Ticketing / Real Estate
• Experience with creative testing at scale (e.g., UGC, hooks, angles, concept iterations)
• Familiarity with The Trade Desk or similar DSPs
• Basic understanding of CRO principles

• Remote-first & async-friendly: We optimize for deep work and clear written communication.
• Outcome-driven: We value results over hours; we show our work and our impact.
• High trust, high standards: We support each other and hold a high bar for quality.

• Fully remote + flexible hours
• Unlimited holidays
• Above-market remuneration
• World-class client roster (AWS, ClassPass, PitchBook, AG1, Skyscanner, etc.)
• Smart, supportive teammates and real career growth
• Learning budget and modern tooling

For US-based employees

• Generous health benefits
• 401K matching program