Growth Marketing Manager, Paid Media & Audience Growth

Shield AI · Washington, D.C.

$130k - $190k

On-site

Full-time

Mid

Growth Division

Posted September 24, 2026

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AI Summary

Shield AI is hiring a Growth Marketing Manager to expand its paid media function with an audience-first approach. The role involves building and executing paid strategies across highly specialized defense, national security, aerospace, policy, and influencer communities using social, video, programmatic, and emerging channels. It suits someone with hands-on paid media experience who enjoys researching audience behavior and applying proven tactics to a challenging defense-tech context.

Job Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Shield is seeking a marketing manager to expand our paid media function with a dedicated focus on audience-first growth. This role builds on our current paid media efforts with a sharper focus on paid channels, audience targeting, and measurable growth.

This is not a standard demand generation role. Shield's audiences are highly specific, distributed across specialized communities, and often difficult to reach through generic B2B or consumer marketing playbooks. We are looking for someone who is genuinely curious about who these people are, where they spend time, what they care about, what signals indicate intent or influence, and how paid media can help us reach them with precision and credibility.

You will work on paid media strategy and execution across priority audiences, with an emphasis on paid social and video channels such as LinkedIn, Meta, X, Reddit, and YouTube. You will also help us explore DSPs, display, programmatic, out-of-home, and other paid channels that can support more granular talent, stakeholder, and influencer targeting. The right person has real hands-on paid media experience, strong audience instincts, and the ability to apply best practices from other industries to a new and challenging defense technology context.

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