Head of Paid Social, Insurance
Launch Potato
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Launch Potato is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. This role is suited for executive-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
WHO ARE WE?Launch Potatois the discovery and conversion company. We reach tens of millions of people every month through our brands, including FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState. We turn that attention into real outcomes for our partners, some of the world's leading companies.Our mission: create predictable, high-value customer acquisition at scale by connecting discovery, intent, and performance across category-leading consumer brands in finance, travel, and entertainment.We run profitable and bootstrapped, with a South Florida HQ and a remote-first team across 18 countries.WHY JOIN US?You own outcomes here, not tasks. We measure work by impact, not activity. The pace is real, and change is constant, so the people who do best turn change into opportunity instead of waiting for it to settle. Feedback runs direct and lands with respect. Ordinary people make themselves extraordinary atLaunch Potato.
WHO ARE WE?
Launch Potatois the discovery and conversion company. We reach tens of millions of people every month through our brands, including FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState. We turn that attention into real outcomes for our partners, some of the world's leading companies.
Our mission: create predictable, high-value customer acquisition at scale by connecting discovery, intent, and performance across category-leading consumer brands in finance, travel, and entertainment.
We run profitable and bootstrapped, with a South Florida HQ and a remote-first team across 18 countries.
WHY JOIN US?
You own outcomes here, not tasks. We measure work by impact, not activity. The pace is real, and change is constant, so the people who do best turn change into opportunity instead of waiting for it to settle. Feedback runs direct and lands with respect. Ordinary people make themselves extraordinary atLaunch Potato.
Auto insurance on paid social is one of our highest-potential channels and you would own it end to end taking it to the next level.
This is a hands-on seat. You are in Ads Manager daily, pulling your own numbers, setting the testing agenda with the creative team, and staying with a test through launch, read, and post-mortem. If you are looking to hand a strategy deck to someone else to execute, this is not it.
The honest trade: the channel has proven scale and a real ceiling. Creative fatigues fast, attribution is noisy, and regulation reshapes what you can say and where you can send traffic. Those problems are yours. Nobody is going to solve them above you.
Why This Seat
You own a vertical, not a slice.Meta and TikTok spend for auto insurance, end to end, from budget and bid strategy to the creative roadmap to live margin performance. One owner, and it is you.
Margin is the metric.Not impressions, not a ROAS number handed down without context. You decide when to push into a lower ROAS for contribution dollars and when to pull back, and you are trusted to make that call.
The mandate is scale, not maintenance.The plan is to grow this channel to roughly 2.5x its current monthly spend without giving up margin. That is the job. If you want a channel that is already solved, this is the wrong one.
The interesting part is unsolved.Creative fatigue cycles, attribution noise, and compliance constraints on a vertical with real headroom. You will not be maintaining someone else's playbook. You will be writing the one the rest of the team runs.
Short line to the people who decide.You work directly with the Senior Director who owns paid marketing, the GM of Auto Insurance, compliance, and product. No layers to route a recommendation through.
Profitable and bootstrapped.Spend decisions here get made on margin, not against a burn plan set by someone else's timeline.
What You'll Bring
* Paid social bought at scale in performance marketing, affiliate, or leadgen. Not brand work and not agency-of-record media planning.
* Deep hands-on Meta expertise: campaign structure, bid and budget strategy, audience and placement testing, and diagnosing a performance shift caused by a platform or attribution change rather than by your campaigns.
* Real TikTok scale, not test budgets. You have managed meaningful spend through allowlisting, vertical restrictions, and landing page requirements.
* Direct accountability for CPA, ROAS, or contribution margin on monthly spend of $250,000 or more.
* Experience in a compliance-heavy vertical such as insurance, lending, credit, or health, where creative and landing page claims are constrained.
* Fluency with tracking and attribution: pixel and server-side event setup, postbacks, conversion QA, and the judgment to spot when the data is lying to you.
* Four or more years in a hands-on, in-the-weeds buying role with direct margin accountability.
How we work, and what we look for in how you work:
* Focus and Win.You start from the P&L and the metric, not the tactic, and you are relentless about why performance moved. You do not stop at the first explanati
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
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About Launch Potato
Launch Potato is a company in the Growth industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.