[Hiring] Amazon Advertising Manager @Rockstar

Role Description

Rockstar is recruiting for a marketplace management firm that specializes in operating brands' presence on Amazon, Walmart, Target Plus, and other channels. They are seeking a manager to lead their advertising and media program for a portfolio of client brands.

The position exists because strategy has outgrown a single seat. You'll be the person client leadership talks to about media, and the person their analysts come to when they don't know what to do next.

• Media planning: Annual, quarterly, and event-level plans across Amazon Sponsored Ads, Amazon DSP, Walmart Connect, and Target Roundel.
• Forecasting and budget management: Budget forecasting, pacing, and sales forecasts that connect spend to topline results.
• Analysis: Interrogating search term, placement, product-level, DSP, and business reports.
• Growth and new audiences: Find the demand a brand isn't reaching and build/test audiences in AMC and DSP.
• Team leadership: Lead, coach, and develop the analysts running daily campaign work.
• Client communication: Bring plans, strategy, and performance to client senior management with a recommendation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years creating, managing, and optimizing Amazon Sponsored Ads campaigns and Amazon DSP campaigns.
• Experience leading digital advertising teams — hiring, coaching, reviewing, holding a standard.
• Hands-on experience pulling insights from Amazon Marketing Cloud and acting on them.
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable building your own models and reasoning about incrementality, attribution, and significance.
• Media planning, budget forecasting, and sales forecasting experience.
• Depth in PPC management and optimization, and in programmatic display.
• A track record of new-to-brand acquisition and consistent incremental sales growth.
• Clear writing and speaking, including presenting media plans to client senior leadership.
• Honesty by default: you report the number you wish were different.

Requirements

• Preferred: Google Data Studio / Looker Studio and SQL, particularly for AMC queries.
• Agentic AI workflows — using AI to speed up analysis and build tooling.
• Walmart Connect and/or Target Roundel campaign management.
• Retail fundamentals: Buy Box, inventory health, catalog integrity, promotions, subscriptions.
• Agency or multi-brand portfolio experience.
• Advanced Excel and bulk operations; Python or scripting a plus.

Benefits

• The work is cyclical and the peaks are demanding — Q4 and Prime Day compress a quarter of decisions into a few weeks.
• People who do well here treat a bad month as information rather than a setback.
• Look for ownership, intellectual honesty, client empathy, attention to detail, and a habit of fixing a manual process.

Company Description

The client manages the marketplace business for brands that can't afford to get it wrong. They handle catalog, content, retail operations, and advertising across Amazon, Walmart Marketplace, Target Plus, and other emerging channels.