About the role

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, providing expert recommendations on paid and organic search strategy including but not limited to : investment decisions, technology innovation, and general channel strategy
  • Synthesize complex performance data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership, highlighting channel impact on divisional and total business performance.
  • Monitor channel/agency performance and pacing against KPIs (ROAS, CPA, CTR) and hold regular check-ins to review optimizations and results.
  • Continuously identify and implement innovative paid search tactics, leveraging emerging platform features and industry best practices to drive competitive advantage.
  • Translate high-level business priorities into actionable search initiatives, ensuring alignment across brand and divisional strategies
  • Build projections and investment recommendations for allocation and monthly spend pacing, working with the agency to adjust plans and budgets as needed.
  • Lead agency and internal teams with authority and clarity, ensuring flawless execution of paid search campaigns while making data-driven decisions that optimize performance and influence broader marketing strategies.
  • Evaluate and challenge agency and platform recommendations, providing strategic input and ensuring data-driven decision-making.
  • Proactively identify and implement innovative paid search tactics, leveraging emerging platform features and industry best practices to drive competitive advantage and measurable business impact
  • Review and approve agency media plans, keyword strategies, and ad copy, ensuring they meet brand guidelines and performance goals.
  • Ensure accurate tracking and reporting by validating agency implementation of conversion tracking, pixels, and analytics integrations.
  • Ensure regular campaign structure and setting are audited periodically to confirm adherence to best practices and compliance requirements.
  • Contribute to other team projects and initiatives, remaining flexible and willingness to support opportunities to drive the business
  • Champion a culture of testing and learning by designing experiments that inform future strategy and deliver measurable business impact
  • Manage a paid search specialist and organic social team of 2 through fostering career development opportunities and skills growth.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment by collaborating with creative, merchandising, and analytics teams to integrate paid search initiatives into holistic marketing campaigns that support brand and divisional objectives
  • Lead and expand a shopping campaign strategy to drive profitable demand to drive key areas of the business.
  • Work closely with Ad Tech partners, to develop and implement advanced automation and optimization solutions that will drive efficiencies.

Requirements

  • 5 - 7 years’ experience in search marketing – both paid and organic, with emphasis on Paid
  • Expert in paid search platforms and tools
  • Agency and/or consulting experience a plus
  • Expert in PMAX/Shopping Campaign Optimization
  • Experience collaborating with both internal resources, external resources to develop strategies that meet department goals within budget and established timelines
  • Experience in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
  • Experience presenting recommendations and/or test ideas informed by internal and external trends
  • Experience analyzing channel results and laddering channel insights up to business goals
  • SEO experience is preferred
  • High degree of project management skill
  • Medium to High Familiarity with web analytics
  • Passion for search, staying on top of the changing ecosystem including advertising formats, Search AI landscape, and other technologies
  • An innate curiosity and ability to breakdown complex analyses into concise, straightforward recommendations and marketing initiatives
  • A collaborative, ‘team-first’ attitude, leave ego at the door
  • Growth mindset
  • Positive, can-do, problem solving attitude, purposeful, but ability to have fun, etc.

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • PTO
  • generous employee discounts
  • retirement savings and much more!

Job title

Search Marketing Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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