UFCU - PAID MEDIA MANAGER TEMP

The Role

The Temporary Paid Media Manager is responsible for leading UFCU’s paid media strategy across digital and traditional channels, including performance marketing, local media buys, and publisher partnerships. This hands-on, collaborative role also involves media planning, execution, and optimization while translating business objectives into actionable strategies. It requires close partnerships with Product Marketing Managers and the Creative team to ensure alignment on media strategies, messaging, and creative deliveries.

Responsibilities

• Leading paid media strategy across digital and traditional channels
• Media planning, execution, and optimization
• Translating business objectives into actionable strategies
• Close partnerships with Product Marketing Managers and the Creative team
• Spend tracking, creative delivery, and performance outcomes
• Ensuring efficiency and compliance of media investments

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Analytics, or a related field
• 3 to 5 plus years of experience managing paid media across digital and/or traditional channels
• Experience working with and coordinating multiple agencies or media partners
• Experience analyzing performance data and contributing optimization recommendations
• Experience tracking media spend, pacing, and performance reporting
• Experience supporting transitions from agency-led to in-house media management
• Must be bondable

Preferred Requirements

• Experience placing media buys directly with publishers or vendors
• Financial services or regulated-industry marketing experience
• Familiarity with GA4, attribution tools, or media mix modeling concepts
• Bilingual in Spanish

Skills

• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, manage agencies, and drive outcomes through influence
• Hands-on paid media execution and optimization across multiple channels
• Strong skills in spend tracking, pacing management, and performance reporting
• Analytical skills to evaluate performance trends and support optimization recommendations
• High attention to detail, particularly related to creative QA, rotations, and execution accuracy
• Clear written and verbal communication for presenting insights and collaborating across teams

Core Competencies

• Demonstrating Member Obsession
• Demonstrating Performance Excellence
• Demonstrating Innovation

Physical Demands

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee, with or without accommodation, to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must regularly sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will make extensive use of the telephone and virtual communications requiring the ability to explain complex information effectively and accurately.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This position requires working onsite three days a week at UFCU Plaza in Austin, Texas. It may involve periodic stressful conditions, and an adjusted work schedule, overtime, and evening/weekend hours may be required. Frequent computer use at a workstation of up to two hours at a time is expected, with a usual moderate noise level in the work environment.

Additional Information

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