Paid Digital Account Manager

Ardent is on the lookout for a gun Paid Digital Account Manager to join our high-performing digital team!

This is a hands-on performance role for someone who lives and breathes Google Ads, Meta Ads and paid media performance. You’ll manage campaigns, optimise results, work directly with clients, and collaborate across SEO, creative, PR, web and strategy teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

We’re not looking for someone who just presses buttons.

We want someone hungry to grow, commercially minded, motivated to learn, and excited by performance marketing and client results.

About Ardent

Ardent is one of Australia’s leading boutique full-service marketing agencies, delivering integrated campaigns across Paid Media, SEO, PR, Creative, Web, Social, Traditional Media and Marketing Strategy.

Our clients include Best Restaurants, Megasealed, Howards Storage World, Gregory Jewellers, Whiddon, Corn Thins, World Business Forum, Raymond Weil, Humpty Dumpty Foundation, Tradiespec and more.

We operate in a fast-moving, collaborative environment where good people, strong culture and performance matter.

About the Role

You’ll be responsible for managing and optimising paid media campaigns across a portfolio of clients, acting as their day-to-day paid digital lead.

This role is heavily focused on implementation, optimisation and performance delivery — with strong growth opportunities into strategy and senior client leadership over time.

Key Responsibilities

Setup, manage and optimise campaigns across:

• Google Ads
• Meta Ads
• LinkedIn Ads
• TikTok Ads
• + other paid social channels
• Manage campaign performance across lead generation and eCommerce clients.
• Own campaign execution, optimisation, pacing and reporting
• Analyse performance data and identify growth opportunities
• Conduct A/B testing and conversion optimisation initiatives
• Coordinate internally with creative, SEO, PR and web teams to execute campaigns effectively
• Act as the primary day-to-day contact for your clients
• Prepare reports, insights and performance recommendations

Bonus Skills (Highly Regarded)

Experience or exposure to:

• DV360 & CM360
• Programmatic media (RTB House, Criteo, StackAdapt)
• AI tools for paid media (automation, creative generation, and campaign scaling)
• Building AI agents or apps to streamline workflows or enhance performance
• GA4 / Google Tag Manager
• Feed management platforms
• CRO and landing page optimisation

What You Bring

• 2+ years hands-on experience managing Google Ads and Meta Ads campaigns
• Strong understanding of paid media performance metrics and optimisation
• Experience across awareness, consideration and conversion campaigns
• Understanding of pixels, tracking, catalogues, feeds and attribution
• Strong attention to detail and time management
• Excellent communication and client management skills
• Commercial mindset with a proactive attitude
• A genuine desire to learn, improve and grow your career
• A technical curiosity for emerging tech, specifically in how AI can aid pad media management, automate reporting or creative testing.

Most importantly cultural fit matters to us. We want good people who care about clients, take ownership, contribute to the team, and want to build something long term.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary package
• Career progression in a growing agency
• Ongoing training and development support
• Annual professional development allowance
• Annual personal goals allowance
• Extra paid birthday leave
• Additional annual leave after 2 years
• 2 mental health days per year
• Quarterly events, Friday drinks and annual retreats
• A genuinely supportive and collaborative team environment
• Large modern North Sydney office with:
• Barista coffee machine
• Beer taps
• Table tennis
• Relaxed breakout zones

If you’re passionate about paid media performance and want to work with a team that values growth, results and culture equally, we’d love to hear from you.