Plan, implement, and optimize paid search campaigns across Google and Bing Ads to achieve business growth targets. Lead key category accounts and develop data-driven testing roadmaps to refine performance marketing initiatives.
Responsibilities:
Performance
- Work within our in-house PPC team to plan, implement, and optimize paid search campaigns across platforms including Google Ads, Bing Ads, and others.
- Take ownership of channel performance, achieving targets and explaining any variance to leadership and stakeholders in management commentary or other forums as required.
- Develop and execute best-practice PPC strategies to meet business goals, including keyword and audience opportunities, campaign structuring, targeting, and display network strategies.
- Define both short-term and long-term strategies and execute them, providing recommendations for campaign optimization and audience growth.
- Provide guidance and support to team members in determining the optimal tactics and approaches to deliver commercial priorities.
- Build and manage a testing roadmap for your categories, ensuring successful experiments are scaled quickly and communicated to the wider team.
- Leverage data-driven insights to identify opportunities, make informed recommendations, and optimize campaign performance.
- Generate innovative ideas to challenge and reshape existing best practices.
- Stay up to date with search engine updates and PPC industry trends.
- Build strong collaborative relationships with teams across Business Development, Product, Data, Engineering, Compliance, and Finance to drive growth and improve owned categories.
- Communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders to align on objectives and ensure the successful delivery of performance goals.
Capability:
- Lead key category accounts with full ownership
- Strategically scale performance marketing initiatives
- Full responsibility for growing own verticals
- Initiating and owning high impact projects across owned categories
- Deliver clear, data-driven insights and recommendations
- Experiment with and refine new campaign techniques
- Leading by example where appropriate.
- Determining the mix between short-term commercial BAU and long-term capability development (e.g., roadmap/testing)
Professional Competencies:
- Passion for Search and digital marketing.
- Highly motivated individual with a proven track record for exceeding expectations.
- Outstanding ability to think creatively and identify and resolve problems
- Attention to detail and the ability to effectively multi-task in a deadline-driven atmosphere
- High levels of autonomy and self-motivation
- Excellent analytical, organizational, project management, and time management skills
- Deep expertise in Google Ads
- Proven track record of strategic growth and optimizations
- High-quality client communication and storytelling
- Cross-functional collaboration skills
- Fail Fast or double down approach
Requirements:
- Proven 8+ years’ experience in PPC/SEM, working on Google Ads and Microsoft Ads.
- In-depth knowledge of Google Ads and Bing Ads, including smart bidding strategies.
- Experience managing large-scale PPC accounts.
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in data analysis tools.
- Experience with website analysis using analytics platforms, including Google Analytics and internal reporting tools.
- Experience using external competitive research tools such as SEMrush, Adthena, or similar.
- Highly motivated with a proven track record of exceeding expectations.
- Enthusiastic about search marketing, with a desire to develop PPC and people management skills while growing professionally.
- Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment and supporting the business in achieving goals.
- Bachelor’s Degree is required.
Perks:
- Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month)
- Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being
- Monthly Office Commutation Reimbursement Program
- Paid paternity and maternity leaves