About Alpha Key Digital
Alpha Key Digital is a Cleveland-based digital marketing and advisory firm working with a focused roster of high-trust, expertise-driven businesses — primarily in aesthetic medicine. We’re not a volume agency. We take on fewer clients, go deeper, and tie our work to outcomes that actually move the needle: booked consults, recovered revenue, and growth our clients can feel. The bar for the work we put our name on is high, and we keep our team lean on purpose.
The Role
We’re looking for a paid media manager who lives and breathes PPC — someone who can take full ownership of Google Ads and Meta campaigns for our clients and run them like the budget is their own. This is a results-accountable seat, not a task seat: we hand you a goal and a budget, and we expect you to run with it. You’ll work directly with the founder and alongside our existing media contractor, but you won’t be managed task-by-task — we’re hiring you precisely so we don’t have to. We care about cost per acquisition, lead quality, and revenue, not impressions or activity reports.
What You Actually Do
You’d Be a Great Fit If You Were…
- The kind of person who opens an ad account and immediately starts hunting for what’s leaking money — wasted spend, bad match types, a landing page killing conversions — before anyone has to ask
- Someone who takes a goal and a budget and just runs, without needing a queue of tasks or a manager checking in
- Genuinely energized by a CPA dropping or a campaign finally cracking profitability, and a little obsessed with the numbers behind why
- Comfortable owning a budget and being measured on the result, rather than hiding behind activity reports
- The type who reads the data first and forms an opinion second — you test, you don’t guess
- Honest when something isn’t working, and quick to flag it with a recommendation attached rather than letting it ride or waiting to be asked
- Detail-obsessed about tracking and attribution — you don’t trust a campaign you can’t measure cleanly
- Reliable without being reminded — deadlines, pacing, and reporting happen because you own them, not because someone follows up
- Current on platform changes because you actually find this stuff interesting, not because someone told you to
Qualifications
Required
- 3+ years managing Google Ads and Meta Ads at a professional level (agency or in-house)
- Demonstrated mastery of PPC — a track record of profitably scaling paid campaigns with real CPA/ROAS results you can speak to
- Hands-on proficiency with Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, Google Analytics (GA4), and Google Tag Manager
- Strong grasp of conversion tracking, attribution, and pixel/tag setup
- Proven ability to run accounts independently with minimal oversight
- Ability to work as an independent contractor (own equipment, own taxes, reliable availability)
Preferred
- Google Ads and/or Meta certifications
- Experience with local or service-area businesses, lead generation, or aesthetic medicine / medspa / healthcare verticals
- Familiarity with call-tracking tools (e.g., CallRail) and CRM/booking platforms
- Experience with landing page conversion optimization
Key Skills & Abilities
- Mastery-level paid search and paid social campaign management
- Analytical fluency — comfortable living in the data and drawing the right conclusions from it
- Self-direction and ownership — you manage yourself and the account
- Sharp copywriting instincts for ad creative and testing
- Clear, no-fluff communication and reporting
- Strong organizational and budget-management discipline
How to Apply
- Send a short note about your PPC experience along with 1–2 examples of accounts you’ve managed and the results you drove. Include any relevant certifications.
