Paid Media Specialist – Google Ads & Emerging Channels

Location:

Austin, TX or Remote

Type: Contract (fixed-term, transition-scoped)

Duration: ~3 months, Nov 2026 – Jan 2027, with potential to extend

Furnished Finder is the leading two-sided marketplace for monthly furnished rentals, connecting landlords with traveling professionals, remote workers, and relocating families seeking stays of 30 days or more. Trusted by over 7 million travelers each year, the platform offers a growing network of over 300,000 listings and more than 240,000 landlords nationwide — connecting renters to real homes in real communities, without booking fees or hidden costs.

Newsweek named Furnished Finder one of America's Best Online Platforms in both 2025 and 2026, ranking it top 5 in the Real Estate category each year. Founded in 2014, the company continues to redefine flexible housing for the modern renter.

When you join Furnished Finder, you’re joining a leadership team with 70+ years of combined experience across real estate and travel. As we enter our next phase of growth, we’re looking for curious, motivated self-starters who are excited to learn, build, and grow alongside an industry-leading team. With roles based in Austin, TX (our HQ) and remote opportunities available, we’re growing quickly—and we’d love to meet you.

You’ll own the full weekly optimization cycle across our paid media portfolio and run it on repeat:

Google Ads —
Search, You Tube, and App (Universal App) campaigns — is the core of the role and where most of the weekly work lives today. But our channel mix is growing, and we want someone who can carry the same loop into platforms like Reddit Ads, Tik Tok Ads, Stack Adapt, and emerging/AI-native ad surfaces (e.g., ChatGPT and other conversational-search ad products) as we expand and test into them.

Platform-specific tactics differ; the discipline — watch the metrics, diagnose, recommend, execute, measure — is the same everywhere.

This is a hands‑on-keyboard role, but it's more than execution. We want someone who watches the metrics that matter, turns what they see into clear, prioritized recommendations, and then makes the changes in-platform — closing the loop end to end every week. We set the overall strategy, objectives, and guardrails; within them, you own the analysis, the call on what to change, and the change itself.

1. Observe – monitor performance and the metrics that matter

• Monitor performance across every active channel — Google Ads (Search, You Tube, App) today, plus Reddit, Tik Tok, Stack Adapt, and new platforms as they come online — against our KPIs (CPA/CPL, ROAS, spend pacing, conversion volume and quality, impression/share metrics, and marketplace supply/demand signals by geo).
• Keep every account healthy: watch pacing, disapprovals, policy issues, broken links, and conversion‑tracking integrity across platforms.
• Alert proactively — flag anomalies, pacing drift, performance drops, disapprovals, and emerging opportunities before they become problems, with the right urgency and the right people looped in.

2. Recommend – analyze and provide actionable insights (a core part of this role)

• Diagnose why performance is moving — not just that CPA rose, but what's driving it (query or audience mix, competition, creative fatigue, bid/budget, targeting, tracking) — and account for how each platform behaves differently.
• Turn the data into a prioritized, actionable weekly recommendation set
  : specific proposed changes with the rationale, expected impact, and risk level — ready for quick review and sign‑off.
• Spot and size opportunities: new keywords, audiences, and placements; budget reallocation…