Performance Media Buyer, Native Ads (Taboola / Outbrain), D2C Skincare & Supplements, DACH Market

We're a Berlin-based company running multiple D2C brands in skincare and supplements/wellness for the DACH market. We're looking for an experienced, hands-on native media buyer to own our paid acquisition on native platforms: scale what's working profitably, kill what isn't, and help us launch new brands from zero. This is not a "set up a campaign and walk away" role. You'll live in the native accounts daily, work closely with our creative and advertorial side, and own the numbers. What you'll do: - Scale existing native accounts profitably. Take over live Taboola and Outbrain campaigns, manage budgets and bids, optimize at the publisher and site level (whitelists/blacklists), and grow spend while protecting ROAS/CAC, not just chasing volume. - Run structured creative and advertorial testing. Test headlines, thumbnails, angles, and advertorial/pre-lander pages systematically. Brief our creators and copywriters on what to make next, identify winners, and scale them. - Own tracking and reporting. Keep S2S/conversion tracking (native pixel, CAPI, Voluum or RedTrack) clean and trustworthy. Deliver clear weekly reporting on spend, ROAS, CAC, EPC, and what you're learning. No vanity metrics. - Launch new brands. Set up accounts, build advertorial funnels and testing frameworks, and take new/younger brands from cold to profitable. - Think in strategy, not just tactics. Flag where the next growth lever is: network, creative, advertorial angle, offer, or placement. What we're looking for: - Proven native media-buying experience with real, scaled accounts you can speak to (spend levels, ROAS, what you changed and why). - Native platforms (Taboola and Outbrain, ideally also RevContent, MGID, or Yahoo Native) are your home turf. Campaign structure, bid strategy, publisher/site-level optimization, dayparting. This is our primary channel. - Strong on advertorial-led performance. You think about headlines, thumbnails, and angles, not just bids. You can brief writers and creators clearly. - Comfortable with clean S2S tracking (native pixel, CAPI, Voluum or RedTrack, basic attribution sanity) and honest reporting. - Works across multiple brands without dropping balls. - Proactive. You flag problems and opportunities before we have to ask. Nice to have: - Meta (Facebook/Instagram) or Google Ads / YouTube (Search, PMax, Discovery) as a secondary scaling channel. - Programmatic / DSP experience, or advanced Taboola/Outbrain tooling. - Experience in beauty, skincare, or supplements/wellness specifically. - German is a plus (our market is DACH), but the role itself runs in English. Hours & setup: Ongoing, roughly 15 to 20 hours per week to start, flexible schedule with some overlap with European business hours. Room to grow as we scale and add brands.