Google YouTube Ads Specialist - Remote Asia Job — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role is highly nomad-friendly — it's fully remote and explicitly designed around an Asia-Pacific timezone. Clay operates at UTC+8 (e.g., Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bali, Manila, Perth), making this one of the rare full-time roles where working from Southeast Asia is not just tolerated but structurally preferred.
Timezone reality: Your mornings sync with Clay (UTC+8), and your afternoons stretch to cover UK/EU and US East Coast clients. This likely means a working window of roughly 8am–7pm local time in UTC+8 — manageable but not purely async. You'll need reliable internet for client calls and Monday reporting.
- Bali (Indonesia): A digital nomad visa (E33G) allows up to 60 days extendable, or the new 5-year nomad visa suits long-term stays. Cost of living for a comfortable lifestyle runs $1,200–$2,000/month, making even a modest salary stretch well here.
- Chiang Mai, Thailand: LTR Visa or METV options. Living costs $900–$1,500/month. UTC+7 means a slight morning offset from Clay.
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: DE Rantau nomad visa available. Costs $1,200–$1,800/month. UTC+8 — perfect timezone alignment.
No equipment stipend or coworking budget is mentioned, so budget for those yourself. The paid test task (2–3 hours) is a green flag for respecting candidates' time. This role suits a nomad who wants long-term stability in Asia rather than constant country-hopping.
Headquarters: Remote
URL: http://convertibles.dev
About Us
Convertibles is a CRO and Shopify development agency for 8 and 9 figure D2C brands. We've just brought Google and YouTube ads in-house under the same roof, run by our co-founder Clay. He's been doing Google Ads for ecommerce since 2013: built and exited his own brand on Google Ads and CRO, then ran Google and YouTube for brands spending $50k to $500k+ a month on Google alone. The ads book today is around seven brands across the US, UK, EU and Australia, and it's growing.
The Role
This is an apprenticeship with a real job attached. You work directly with Clay (@ecomclay), learn how he runs accounts, and within 90 days you're running the weekly cycle on your first accounts yourself.
The Weekly Cycle
- Monday: Pull last week's numbers (Google Ads platform side plus the client's attribution tool — Triple Whale, Converge or Northbeam), update the reporting workbook, write the client update, produce the actions list. Exact campaign, exact change, why.
- Through the week: Make the changes, watch pacing, check feeds and Merchant Center, build new campaigns (Search, Shopping, PMax, YouTube / Demand Gen).
- Client calls: Sit in first, then run them.
How We Work
- YouTube and Demand Gen are the main event, not a side channel. We take a brand's winning Meta ads, recut them for YouTube, and scale. Accounts have gone from YouTube at 6–12% of media mix to 13–22%, at a return that held for over a year.
- Attribution-tool numbers decide YouTube, not platform numbers. If you've only ever judged campaigns on what Google Ads says, you'll learn a different lens.
- Everything gets a number. "Performance improved" is not a finding. "NC-CPA went from £38 to £30 on the same spend" is.
- AI is part of the workflow. Reporting workbooks, data pulls and first drafts are built with Claude. You don't need to be a developer, but you need to be comfortable working this way.
- There's a dev, CRO, QA and design team behind the ads. When a landing page or a feed needs fixing, someone fixes it.
Who Fits
- 2–4 years hands-on in Google Ads for ecommerce. Your hands on the account, not managing someone whose hands are.
- You've run Search, Shopping and PMax on real budgets (at least one account at $20k+/month). You've at least touched YouTube or Demand Gen and want to go deep on it.
- Comfortable in Google Sheets / Excel. You can look at eight weeks of campaign data and tell me what changed and why.
- You know what a Merchant Center disapproval is and how to fix it.
- You write clearly in English. You'll be writing to clients by week five.
- Curious, direct, not precious about being told you're wrong.
Not a fit: Agency account managers who relay what the specialist did. Meta buyers who "also do Google". Anyone who needs the basics explained.
Hours
Full-time, 40h/wk. Your morning overlaps with Clay (he's UTC+8), your afternoon overlaps with UK/EU clients and the US East Coast. Flexible beyond that.
First 90 Days
- Weeks 1–4: Shadow. Pull the data, build the workbooks, sit on every call.
- Weeks 5–8: Draft the Monday updates and actions lists for two accounts. Clay reviews before they go out.
- Weeks 9–12: Own the weekly cycle and the check-in call on your first account.
Comp is reviewed at 90 days. The per-account bonus starts when you own an account.
What You Get
Direct training from someone who's done this for 13 years, on his own money and then on clients'. A team behind you. A real path: run accounts, then lead the Google / YouTube lane.
How to Apply
Keep it short. Answer the questions in the form with numbers, not adjectives. Shortlisted people do a paid 2–3 hour test task, then a call with Clay.
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