Media Buyer - Creative Testing & Optimization
New York · USD 150,000-250,000 / year · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- New York
- Salary
- USD 150,000-250,000 / year
About the role
- Kalshi is seeking a hands-on Media Buyer to help scale paid acquisition through disciplined creative testing and daily campaign optimization across Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, X, and demand-side platforms (DSPs).
- You will own daily execution by launching over 200 ads each week, identifying winning concepts, moving them into scale campaigns, and directing spend toward top performers.
- Working closely with creative and compliance teams, you will keep campaigns fresh and translate performance data into clear recommendations for future testing.
Responsibilities
- Launch 200+ ads each week accurately and on schedule using an established testing framework, with consistent naming, accurate tracking, and correct targeting and campaign settings.
- Evaluate acquisition cost, conversion volume, and spend to determine when an ad has enough data to move into scale campaigns.
- Monitor performance, pause underperforming ads once they meet agreed decision thresholds, and direct spend toward the strongest performers.
- Track what launched, what worked, what didn’t, and what should be tested next so results inform future decisions.
- Give actionable feedback on the hooks, formats, messages, and concepts driving performance, helping the creative team develop stronger briefs and iterations.
- Work with creative and compliance teams to ensure assets are approved, correctly formatted, and ready to launch.
- Check copy, links, tracking, placements, targeting, and assets before every launch, catching mistakes before they affect performance.
Requirements
- Proven experience buying media and optimizing direct-response campaigns, with strong hands-on skills in Meta and TikTok.
- Experience running campaigns on Snapchat, X, and/or DSPs.
- A track record of managing high-volume creative testing and turning winning ads into scaled campaigns.
- A strong understanding of customer acquisition cost (CAC), cost per acquisition (CPA), and return on ad spend (ROAS).
- Sound judgment about when an ad has enough spend and conversion data to scale, continue testing, or pause.
- Strong organizational skills and comfort managing hundreds of ads across multiple platforms.
- Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to execute quickly while maintaining accuracy.
- The ability to turn campaign data into clear recommendations for creative and growth teams.
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
Skills
- Meta
- TikTok
- Snapchat
- X
- DSPs