Paid Media Manager, Amazon PPC (Amazon… at Luminize · San Diego

🚀 A Seat Where Your Optimizations Show Up in the P&L!

📍 Role: Paid Media Manager, Amazon PPC (Amazon Advertising, Sr. Level)
📍 Location: San Diego, CA 92101 (Onsite at Symphony Towers)
💰 Compensation Range: $90,000 - $120,000 DOE

At Luminize, we help brands win, and as one of the top 5 Amazon sellers in the US, we are looking for top performers to grow with us.

On most of our brands we buy the inventory ourselves. That means you aren’t optimizing to a ROAS target a client handed you. Your bids touch what we bought, what’s in stock and what lands in our P&L. We’re looking for a Paid Media Manager, Amazon PPC to run a book of 7 to 10 brands, guide junior strategists, and help shape the future of our ad services.

If you want your next move to mean more with more ownership, more growth, and more impact, we would love to meet you!

🎯 What You’ll Be Doing

• Build and restructure Sponsored Products, Brands and Display campaigns across your brands
• Run waste audits, set negation thresholds and defend them with numbers
• Decide where branded spend is worth it and where organic rank already has it covered
• Take a bad metric and turn it into a good one, then explain in a client meeting exactly what you changed and why
• Mentor junior team members and share your expertise
• Sit in the room with brand management, content, catalog and supply chain teams to collaborate on growth strategies for our brands

✅ What You Bring

• Hands-on management of Amazon Sponsored Products or Sponsored Brands inside Ad Console within the last 12 months. Hands-on Google Ads or Microsoft Ads paid search within the last 12 months also counts - we have hired strong paid search people into this seat and it worked.
• 5+ years in digital advertising, with your most recent platform work no more than 18 months old
• Fluency in negation strategy, match types and harvesting
• Google Sheets & Excel analysis
• Comfortable presenting data and defending a recommendation directly to clients
• Able to work onsite in San Diego 5 days a week

➕ Nice to have, not required

• Agency or multi-brand seller experience
• Perpetua, Helium 10 or similar tooling
• Walmart Connect, Instacart Ads or other retail media breadth
• Experience mentoring junior strategists or owning training content
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business or a related field, or the equivalent in experience

Your office comes with a view, literally.

• Panoramic city and coastline views from your workspace
• Free building gym access, no separate membership
• 24/7 paid downtown parking, blocks from the office, plus secure bike storage
• Exclusive discounts at tower restaurants and cafes
• Steps from 100+ top-rated bars, restaurants, coffee shops and Petco Park
• Ergonomic standing desks and premium workstations
• Fully stocked kitchen, snacks, espresso
• Monthly all-company lunches, and a team lounge with a pool table for when you need twenty minutes away from a bid sheet

🎁 Benefits & Perks

You do great work here and we want to take care of you outside of it, too.

• Comprehensive medical coverage, choose from multiple plans through Anthem Blue Cross
• Dental & vision, including orthodontia and annual exams
• Pet benefits, savings on vet care, products, and services
• Paid Vacation, accrue 120 hours a year, with rollover
• Paid holidays and sick time
• 401(k) with company match, we invest in your future, too

💵 Compensation Transparency

We have listed a broad salary range of $90,000-$120,000/year to account for varying levels of experience, skill sets, and leadership depth. Where you land in the range will depend on how your background aligns with this role.

We are committed to compensating based on value and impact, not just years on paper, and we are happy to have open conversations throughout the process.

📈 Growth & Career Opportunities at Luminize

Above this seat is our Principal advertising role, and above that is advertising leadership. We publish leveling guidelines, so you will know what the next rung requires before you are asked to reach for it. We have a strong track record of promoting from within. Many of our team leads started as individual contributors, and we hire externally only when we have to.

You will also get mentorship from managers in 1:1s and annual reviews, cross-functional exposure to content, brand management, software, supply chain, catalog and operations, and Udemy course access plus additional training.

​About Luminize

Luminize is a full-service Amazon growth partner helping brands achieve next-level success in a competitive digital marketplace. From creative strategy to advertising and analytics, we combine expertise and hustle to fuel results for brands in CPG, health, wellness, beauty and beyond.

We are not your typical agency, and we like it that way. We operate with transparency, celebrate wins often, and treat every brand like it is our own.

👉 If you have been waiting for a seat where your optimizations show up in the P&L, apply now!

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