About this role
Your new role:
In this role, you’ll lead the strategy and optimisation of paid acquisition channels across Google Ads, Meta Ads and other digital channels, using data-led insights to improve conversion, shape acquisition activity and maximise return on ad spend.
Key responsibilities include:
Own paid acquisition strategy across Google Ads, Meta Ads and other digital channels, aligning activity to commercial, audience, brand and acquisition goals.
Brief, guide and partner with the media agency on campaign setup, targeting, bidding, creative testing, channel mix and optimisation priorities, ensuring strong execution and performance outcomes.
Review campaign performance, budget pacing and key metrics to identify opportunities for stronger conversion, acquisition growth and return on media investment.
Write, review and refine ad and SEM copy, providing creative direction that is clear, compelling, compliant and aligned to campaign objectives.
Analyse campaign performance across CPC, CPL, CPA, ROI and full-funnel conversion, maintaining dashboards and reporting routines that support commercial decision-making.
Use platform AI and automation, including Google Performance Max, Smart Bidding and Meta Advantage+, alongside AI tools for creative testing, analysis and reporting.
Partner with Digital, Product, UX, Data, Legal, Compliance, design and agency teams to improve tracking, landing-page conversion and compliant campaign delivery.
What we’re looking for
You’re a commercially focused performance marketer with a growth mindset, strong strategic judgement and a genuine passion for data. You’re confident using insights to optimise performance, partner with agency teams and connect campaign activity to measurable acquisition, conversion and return on media investment. If you bring the following, we’d love to hear from you:
3+ years’ experience in performance marketing across Google Ads and Meta Ads, with strong knowledge of campaign strategy, optimisation levers, performance metrics and effective agency execution.
Strong experience in campaign reporting, analysis and data interpretation to improve performance and ROI.
Hands-on experience with GA4, Google Tag Manager and dashboarding tools such as Looker Studio or Supermetrics.
Demonstrated campaign optimisation experience across bidding, audience segmentation, creative A/B testing and real-time performance decisions.
Experience using AI tools and platform automation to improve efficiency, scale testing and support analysis.
Experience developing or owning paid-media strategy and managing external media agencies or partners is highly regarded.
B2C performance marketing experience in financial services, and exposure to programmatic, native content or emerging platforms, is highly regarded.
What’s in it for you
A competitive salary, including short-term and long-term incentives including access to an Employee Share Plan
Hybrid work arrangements
Wellbeing program that includes an extra 4 days of leave per year
Birthday leave
Purpose aligned volunteer days
20 days paid annual leave with an additional 3 paid days of annual leave between Christmas and New Year
Want to know more about what it's like to work at Australian Ethical? Check out our LinkedIn Life Page here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/australian-ethical-investment/life/ or our Careers and Culture page here: https://www.australianethical.com.au/work-with-us/
At Australian Ethical we embrace diversity in our people and thinking. We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital or disability status.
Join the Team
If this role interests you and you'd love to join the Australian Ethical team, apply here. We look forward to hearing from you!
Please note
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Applications or approaches via recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Background checks will be conducted for the successful candidate, as per our regulatory requirements as a financial services organisation