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Senior Meta Ads Expert Needed — Sports Betting / Picks / Restricted Advertising Specialist

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Profit Beasts is an established paid sports picks/community business. We are looking for a VERY experienced Meta/Facebook Ads specialist who has direct experience with sports betting, sports picks/handicapping, iGaming, fantasy sports, or similarly restricted Meta advertising categories.

This is NOT a beginner media-buying job. We are NOT looking for a general Facebook Ads freelancer.

Our business has already successfully scaled with Meta in the past. At our peak, our acquisition system was generating approximately 100 new VIP joins per day.

Our monetization system works. We have multiple membership tiers, high-ticket products, upsells, a free community, established social proof, historical winning creatives, substantial customer data, and significant budget available to scale.

Our current bottleneck is acquisition.

Our Meta advertising environment has changed significantly. We are now experiencing:

  • Very high creative rejection rates
  • Ads that previously would have been approved now getting rejected
  • Difficulty getting aggressive/direct-response sports-picks creatives approved
  • Compliant creatives sometimes getting approved but converting significantly worse
  • Major reduction in new-member acquisition
  • Difficulty determining whether the primary issue is creative, advertiser/account standing, Meta authorization, landing pages, offer positioning, destination, policy classification, or some combination of these factors

We have examples of competitors in the same industry currently running Meta ads with sports-picks messaging, performance claims, free-picks offers and direct Whop/Instagram destinations.

We need someone who understands WHY competitors can run these campaigns and what legitimate changes we need to make to build a scalable Meta acquisition system again.

What we want you to do

The first engagement will be a paid professional audit and strategy project.

You will review

  • Our Meta Business Manager / advertising setup
  • Ad-account history and current standing
  • Our rejection history
  • Historical winning creatives
  • Currently approved creatives
  • Currently rejected creatives
  • Meta policy issues affecting our category
  • Gambling/gaming authorization requirements, if applicable
  • Whether our business is being classified correctly by Meta
  • Landing pages and Whop destinations
  • Instagram-profile vs direct-landing-page acquisition
  • Tracking / Pixel / CAPI setup where relevant
  • Offers and funnel structure
  • Competitor ads currently active in Meta Ad Library
  • Our historical acquisition performance

We want you to identify specifically what is preventing us from scaling Meta again and what you would change.

We do NOT want a generic PDF explaining Facebook Ads.

We want an actionable plan such as

What is wrong → why it is happening → what needs to change → what creatives/offers/destinations we should test → how you would structure the campaigns → how we legitimately increase approval consistency → how we scale once profitable acquisition is found.

Creative strategy

We can produce large amounts of creative quickly using designers, editors, UGC creators and AI.

Therefore, simply telling us to “make more creatives” is not valuable.

We need someone who understands the intersection between:

META COMPLIANCE + SPORTS BETTING/PICKS + DIRECT RESPONSE + CREATIVE STRATEGY + SCALING

We specifically want help developing creatives that can both:

1. Get approved consistently

AND

2. Actually convert customers

If you have personally solved this problem for sports betting, iGaming, sports-picks, fantasy, financial, crypto, or another heavily restricted Meta category, we want to hear from you.

IMPORTANT — DO NOT APPLY UNLESS YOU CAN PROVE EXPERIENCE

Your application MUST answer these questions

1. What restricted Meta advertising categories have you personally worked in?

2. Have you personally managed Meta Ads for sports betting, sports picks, handicapping, iGaming, fantasy sports or a closely related business? Explain exactly what you did.

3. Have you dealt with unusually high Meta ad rejection rates before? What caused them and what did you change?

4. What experience do you have with Meta gambling/gaming authorization or advertiser approval processes?

5. Can you provide screenshots, case studies, references or other evidence showing results from relevant accounts? You may redact client-sensitive information.

6. If competitors are currently running aggressive sports-picks ads while our similar advertisements are rejected, what areas would you investigate FIRST?

7. Are you comfortable reviewing our historical winning ads, rejected ads and competitor ads and explaining the differences before recommending a strategy?

We are NOT looking for

We are not interested in

  • Generic Meta Ads freelancers
  • Beginners
  • People whose only experience is normal e-commerce
  • People who simply know how to use Ads Manager
  • Generic AI-generated audits
  • Someone promising guaranteed approval
  • Cloaking
  • Fake documents
  • Purchased/rented Facebook accounts
  • Disposable-account strategies
  • Circumventing Meta enforcement

We want a legitimate, durable advertising operation that can scale significant spend.

Opportunity

We have significant advertising budget available immediately if you can demonstrate a legitimate acquisition strategy that works.

This can become a long-term engagement involving

strategy + creative direction + campaign management + optimization + scaling.

However, we will begin with the audit/strategy engagement first.

If you are genuinely experienced in this exact area, start your application with the words:

“RESTRICTED META”

Then answer all seven questions above.

If you cannot demonstrate direct experience with restricted Meta advertising, please do not apply.

Job Type

Job Type
Contract
Location
Anywhere(Remote)

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