About Keen :
At Keen, we don't just deliver services — we embed ourselves into the heart of our clients' businesses. From digital marketing and creative to customer experience, we craft bold, high-performance digital experiences for global brands. Keen helps some of the most exciting U.S. and international brands scale smarter by embedding expert teams that drive results across marketing, creative, customer experience, and sales. We're not a legacy agency. We're a partner in growth — and that's where you come in.
About the Role :
We are hiring a Paid Media Manager, Paid Social to build, launch, and manage paid acquisition across Meta, Pinterest, TikTok, and Axon by Applovin.
You will play a critical role in campaign execution and performance, from uploading creatives and verifying QA to pacing, optimizing, and managing daily channel health.
This is a hands-on role that requires precision, strong workflow management, and the ability to execute a high volume of ad uploads while staying aligned with overall growth strategy. You will also support analysis, creative testing, and reporting to help the team scale efficiently and profitably.
If you are detail-oriented, proactive, and energized by a fast-paced environment of launching, optimizing, and improving paid social performance, this is the role for you.
Requirements
What You’ll Do
- Build, launch, and manage campaigns across Meta, Pinterest, TikTok, and Axon by Applovin, ensuring flawless execution and proper naming conventions, targeting structures, creatives, and UTM tracking
- Take day-to-day ownership of select channels including setup, pacing, optimizations, and performance monitoring
- Perform detailed QA using internal checklists to ensure accuracy across ad copy, landing pages, audiences, formats, and platform requirements
- Upload and organize a high volume of weekly ads (50 plus per week) across multiple formats (1 : 1, 4 : 5, 9 : 16), ensuring deadlines are met
- Maintain organization within project management and creative tools such as Asana and Air
- Support reporting and analysis by monitoring performance in Motion, Northbeam, and analytics dashboards and surface insights to improve efficiency
- Partner with the Growth Marketing Manager and Creative Strategist to implement creative testing, identify winning combinations, and refine performance
- Track platform updates and test new formats, features, placements, and creative approaches to stay competitive
- Contribute to process improvements that help the team move faster and scale campaigns effectively
What We’re Looking For
1 to 3 years of experience in paid social ad operations, media buying, or digital marketing executionHands-on experience with Meta Ads Manager is requiredExperience with Pinterest, TikTok, or Axon by Applovin is strongly preferredStrong understanding of paid social campaign structures including audiences, placements, naming conventions, and budget pacingExceptional attention to detail with the ability to spot errors before campaigns go liveComfortable working in analytics tools such as Motion, Northbeam, and GA4, and supporting insight generationStrong project management and communication skills with the ability to manage deadlines and collaborate in a high-volume environmentSelf-starter capable of owning campaign execution and maintaining organization across multiple workflowsExperience with Asana, Air, Motion, and Google Sheets is preferredBenefits
What’s In It for You
Competitive salary based on experienceHybrid schedule — collaborative office-based in Woodstock, Cape TownCollaborate with a fast-growing international brand and a globally-minded teamAutonomy to lead and innovate in your domainCareer growth opportunities in a fast-moving organizationBirthday leave + professional development budgetJoin a team that values ownership, creativity, and results