Digital Media Buyer/Media Specialist (Remote)

Media Cause is an award-winning, mission-driven marketing and creative agency that helps nonprofits grow and accelerate their impact. We take a people-first approach to developing powerful creative, scalable growth strategies, and targeted communications that connect with individuals across their entire supporter journey: from awareness and recruitment to fundraising and advocacy, and every touchpoint in between.

As of 2025, Media Cause consists of 50+ full-time employees along with a network of talented consultants. We have offices in Washington DC, Atlanta, and San Francisco, as well as many team members who work remotely on a permanent basis. Our agency has grown in size every year since our founding, landing on the Inc. 5000 list for the fastest-growing private companies in America three times. We have built a strong business, although impact will always be our North Star. In addition to winning a number of creative and effectiveness awards for our client work, Media Cause was also honored by Inc. Magazine with a Best In Business Gold Award for our positive impact on our community, our industry, and society as a whole.


What You'll Do:

  • Develop strategic media plans & recommendations
  • Own all steps of the ad operations process
  • Use self-managed platforms, including Google and Facebook, to build & monitor digital buys 
  • Optimize campaign buys to deliver the most at the highest ROI
  • Cultivate and maintain relationships with digital media vendors, publishers and key technology platforms
  • Bring new ad opportunities, products, and placements to the team to help strengthen creativity and effectiveness
  • Work alongside account strategists and creative leads to support campaign goals
  • Utilize Google Analytics to monitor channel, campaign, conversion & site performance
  • Own all steps of the ad operations process
  • Proactively optimize purchased media through A/B testing, landing page optimization, and targeting
  • Monitor campaigns to ensure they deliver expected results
  • Build, analyze & provide insights for client campaign reports
  • Stay apprised of digital trends & tools
  • Manage client relationships and happiness

Who You Are:

The ideal candidate has 1-2 years of digital media buying experience, including paid search. Management of Google Ad Grant accounts is a plus.  Prior client management experience with a high volume of accounts is desired.   Bonus points if previous work gave you exposure to the nonprofit space.

We're looking for people with a passion for driving meaningful results for clients, a hunger to continue learning in the ever changing digital world, the ability to problem solve to overcome any challenge, a passion for helping teammates succeed and a strong desire to change the world.

Skills & Experience Required:

  • 1-2 years related professional experience planning, buying & managing a variety of digital media campaigns (search, display, social)
  • Have strong relationships with digital media vendors, publishers, and key technology platforms
  • Significant multi-year experience running ad campaigns on a variety of programmatic, direct publisher, search, and social advertising mediums
  • Hold certification in Google AdWords and/or Facebook certified professional
  • Ad server (Google Campaign Manager) experience a plus 
  • Experience planning and executing Direct Response campaigns a plus
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience managing managing multiple clients at once in a fast paced environment
  • Track record of thinking outside the box for innovative ways for nonprofits to use all digital platforms to achieve their goals.
  • An optimistic dreamer who executes efficiently with a positive can do attitude

Company Perks & Culture

  • Family first work environment with flexible work from home options to accommodate personal obligations
  • Robust health, dental, and vision benefit plans for you and yours
  • 401k & retirement planning
  • Agency-wide profit sharing
  • Unlimited personal time off (with an enforced 3 week minimum every year)
  • 2x/year mental health Fridays to reset and recharge
  • Flexible remote work: We're open to candidates located anywhere in the US and support work getting done wherever it works best for the employee
  • $200/month health & wellness stipend to strengthen your body and/or mind
  • $1,000/year individual professional development stipend to cover any education/training that you want to pursue to grow in your role (or as a human!)
  • Agency commitment to building and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive agency (and we hold ourselves accountable)
  • Transparent & equitable career growth opportunities: Clear path for advancement and opportunity for anyone to raise their hand for promotion every 6 months
  • The ability to work with genuinely fantastic humans who care deeply about the work we do and each other
  • Yearly donations made to employees nonprofit of choice to celebrate their Media Cause work anniversaries
  • A culture of volunteering and giving back to the communities we work in and to the issues we care about around the world 


This is a salaried role commensurate with experience. Media Cause is committed to hiring individuals who are traditionally underrepresented in the field of marketing. We strongly encourage all qualified people to apply.


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Skills:
A/B Testing, Ad Serving, Advertising, Advertising Operations, Adwords, Analysis Skills, Campaigns, Channel Strategies, Communication Skills, Compensation and Benefits, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer/Client Research, Digital Media, Direct Response Advertising, Facebook, Field Marketing, Funding, Fundraising, Google Analytics, Grant Administration/Management, Marketing, Marketing Campaign, Media Buying and Planning, Media Campaigns, Nonprofit, Operations Processes, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Procurement Planning, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Retirement Planning, Return on Investment (ROI), Sales Management, Sales Strategy, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Strategic Planning, Vendor/Supplier Relations, Vision Plan, Work From Home, Writing Skills


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