Digital Media Buyer/Media Specialist

Role Overview

Media Cause is an award-winning 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. As of 2025, Media Cause consists of 50+ full-time employees along with a network of talented consultants, with offices in Washington DC, Atlanta, and San Francisco, and many team members who work remotely on a permanent basis.

What You Will Do

Develop strategic media plans & recommendations, own all steps of the ad operations process, use self-managed platforms 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, and more.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate has 1-2 years of digital media buying experience, including paid search, and 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.

Requirements

• 1-2 years related professional experience planning, buying & managing a variety of digital media campaigns (search, display, social)
• 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 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

Benefits

• Family first work environment with flexible work from home options
• Robust health, dental, and vision benefit plans
• 401k & retirement planning
• Agency-wide profit sharing
• Unlimited personal time off
• 2x/year mental health Fridays
• $200/month health & wellness stipend
• $1,000/year individual professional development stipend
• Yearly donations made to employees' nonprofit of choice
• A culture of volunteering and giving back to the communities we work in and to the issues we care about around the world