[Hiring] Senior Media Buyer @Quintessa Marketing

Role Description

I want to hire you… and pay you a lot of money. But this role isn't for most media buyers. If you're a senior media buyer based in the U.S. who is already actively managing accounts spending 7 figures per month on Meta and/or Google, keep reading.

Because if you're genuinely elite at media buying, obsessed with performance, and want to operate at a scale where small improvements can have massive impact, this could be the opportunity you're looking for. We operate at serious scale. You'll be working across 7-figure monthly advertising budgets, multiple platforms, multiple states and markets, and a creative operation capable of producing and testing a massive volume of new ads.

We don't need someone to simply maintain what we've built. We want someone who can help us make it significantly better.

The Role

This is not a traditional media buyer role. We don't need someone who waits for instructions, adjusts budgets, turns off bad ads, and calls it media buying. And we definitely don't need someone who requires leadership to constantly tell them where the next opportunity is.

We're looking for someone who can take real ownership over performance. Someone who can look across Meta, Google, states, campaigns, and hundreds of creatives and quickly determine:

• Where should we spend more?
• Where should we spend less?
• What's starting to work that we haven't fully capitalized on yet?
• Why is this state underperforming?
• What winning ads haven't we expanded yet?
• What creative are we missing?
• What should we test next?

Then actually execute. You won't just optimize campaigns. You'll help determine where the next level of growth comes from.

What You'll Actually Own

1. Performance & Scaling
   • Manage and optimize high-spend campaigns across Meta and Google, including YouTube, Search, and Performance Max.
   • Identify scaling opportunities, budget reallocation opportunities, performance inefficiencies, underperforming markets, testing gaps, and new strategies worth implementing.
   • Understand where our money is going, what it's producing, and where the next dollar should be spent.
   • Work with other media buyers and leadership on cross-platform and state-level budget strategy to hit our volume and profitability goals.
2. Creative Expansion
   • Know our best-performing ads and angles.
   • Capitalize on concepts that are starting to gain traction.
   • Bridge the gap between performance data and the creative team.
3. Underperforming Markets
   • Identify why a state isn't producing enough volume.
   • Determine if the issue is creative, campaign structure, budget allocation, lack of creative diversity, platform mix, audience, offer, or landing page.
   • Build and execute a plan to improve performance.
4. Media Buying Operations
   • Own the operational side of running advertising at scale.
   • Manage weekly and monthly spend planning and pacing, cross-platform and state-level budget allocation, campaign launches, and creative launches.
   • Ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
5. Account Monitoring
   • Check campaigns over weekends when necessary.
   • Ensure nothing is broken, spend is behaving correctly, and volume remains healthy.
   • Make critical changes outside normal business hours when directed by Quintessa leadership.
6. Innovation
   • Pay attention to what other elite advertisers are doing, new strategies, creative trends, and opportunities we're currently missing.
   • Challenge existing assumptions and run tests.

The Standard

This is not a “set it and forget it” media buying role. We move fast, spend aggressively when something works, cut things when they don't, and test constantly. We expect people to communicate quickly and make decisions.

Who This Is NOT For

• You're not based in the United States.
• You've never actively managed 7-figure monthly ad spend.
• You don't genuinely love media buying.
• You're primarily looking for a comfortable 9-to-5.
• You need someone else to identify every opportunity for you.
• You spend more time reporting problems than solving them.
• You default to “let's wait for more data” every time a decision needs to be made.
• You just want to optimize campaigns and push buttons.
• You don't understand creative diversity.
• You don't understand how creative impacts media buying performance.
• You rarely bring new ideas to the table.
• You're afraid to make decisions.
• You lack urgency.
• You aren't constantly trying to improve your craft.
• You want responsibility without accountability.

Who This IS For

• You've actively managed $1M+ per month in ad spend.
• You're highly experienced with Meta and/or Google.
• You live and breathe media buying.
• You can look at large amounts of performance data and quickly identify what matters.
• You can spot potential winning ads early and know how to expand them.
• You understand budget allocation at scale.
• You think beyond individual campaigns and understand performance across platforms, markets, and creatives.
• You understand creative diversity and how it impacts performance.
• You naturally think in angles, patterns, distribution, and opportunities.
• You're comfortable making decisions with imperfect information.
• You're extremely analytical without becoming slow.
• You're proactive rather than reactive.
• You bring solutions, not just problems.
• You're constantly bringing new ideas and tests to the table.
• You're competitive with yourself and want to get better every week.
• You want your decisions to actually matter.
• You want exposure to massive budgets, an elite creative operation, and real decision-making authority.
• You want your income and responsibility to scale with your impact.

What You Get

• Massive budgets to work with.
• A creative team capable of producing and iterating on ideas quickly.
• Enough data to make meaningful decisions fast.
• The ability to test ideas without fighting for tiny budgets.
• Direct access to leadership.
• Real influence over media buying strategy.
• The ability to see your decisions translate into millions of dollars of spend.
• An environment that rewards performance and initiative.
• The opportunity to build systems and strategies that operate at serious scale.

Compensation & Growth

We want exceptional people, and we're willing to pay for them. $8,000-$14,000/month ($96,000-$168,000/year) depending on experience and skill level.

• Monthly performance-based bonuses.
• Clear opportunities for increased compensation.
• Increased ownership as you prove yourself.
• Opportunity to take on greater leadership within the media buying department.

Final Note

We're building something serious here. If your goal is to find the easiest media buying job possible, this isn't it. But if you're obsessed with advertising and want to operate at a level where you're working with massive budgets, huge amounts of data, an elite creative team, and real responsibility, pay attention.