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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.