Brand Paid Media Manager
Cursor · New York City, New York · San Francisco, California
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.
BRAND PAID MEDIA MANAGER
We're looking for a Brand Paid Media Manager to build awareness, shape perception, and introduce our brand to new audiences at scale. You'll lead top-of-funnel media across channels such as television, podcasts, out-of-home, streaming audio and video, and other high-impact brand placements. This role blends strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You'll determine where and how we show up, negotiate and manage media investments, and partner with creative and brand teams to develop campaigns that resonate with technical and business audiences.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and execute a top-of-funnel paid media strategy across television, podcasts, out-of-home, streaming, audio, video, sponsorships, and emerging channels; own media planning, budgeting, forecasting, and allocation across brand campaigns; identify the markets, audiences, programs, creators, and cultural moments where our brand can have the greatest impact
- Manage relationships with media agencies, networks, publishers, podcast partners, and other vendors; lead media buying and negotiations, securing effective placements, pricing, added value, and contract terms
- Partner closely with brand, creative, content, communications, and product marketing teams to develop memorable campaign concepts; translate campaign strategy into clear creative briefs, channel plans, audience recommendations, and production requirements
- Ensure creative is tailored to each medium while maintaining a consistent brand narrative; build testing plans across markets, audiences, messages, formats, frequency, and media mix; establish measurement frameworks for brand awareness, consideration, reach, frequency, share of voice, branded search, direct traffic, and downstream demand
- Use brand-lift studies, geographic testing, incrementality analysis, and other methods to evaluate campaign impact; monitor campaigns, surface insights, and adjust investment based on performance, audience response, and business priorities
- Communicate campaign plans, results, and recommendations clearly to cross-functional partners and company leadership; stay current on shifts in media consumption, advertising technology, measurement, and emerging brand opportunities
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Hands-on experience in paid media, with a focus on brand advertising, media planning, and buying across top-of-funnel channels.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Hands-on experience planning, buying, and optimizing brand campaigns across channels such as TV, connected TV (CTV), podcasts, out-of-home (OOH), streaming audio, and digital video.
- Proven ability to manage large media budgets, develop media plans, allocate investments, and negotiate directly with publishers, networks, and media partners.
- Strong understanding of media planning fundamentals, including reach, frequency, audience targeting, market selection, and cross-channel media mix.
- Experience measuring brand advertising effectiveness through brand-lift studies, incrementality testing, media mix modeling (MMM), geographic experiments, and other analytical approaches.
- Strong creative instincts and experience collaborating with brand, creative, and marketing teams to develop campaigns that resonate with target audiences.
- Highly analytical, organized, and comfortable owning campaigns end-to-end, from strategy and execution through measurement, optimization, and communicating results to leadership.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- The ability to work in person from our San Francisco office
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
Annual Salary:
$180,000 - $220,000 USD
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.