Campaign Trafficking, QA & Execution
• Own end-to-end trafficking, setup, and quality assurance of Google Search and Shopping campaigns, ensuring flawless execution across all campaign types, match types, bidding strategies, and feed configurations.
• Maintain rigorous QA standards across tracking implementation, UTM structures, audience targeting, and creative copy — ensuring every campaign goes live to spec.
• Oversee Shopping feed health and structure in close coordination with data and product feed partners, proactively identifying and resolving feed issues.
• Manage campaign naming conventions, account structure, and budget organization to ensure operational clarity and reporting accuracy across all accounts.
• Serve as the team’s escalation point for complex trafficking and execution challenges, driving fast and effective resolution.
Optimization & Performance
• Lead ongoing optimization of Search and Shopping campaigns across bids, budgets, keywords, audiences, ad copy, and landing page alignment — always connecting tactical actions to strategic KPIs.
• Design and execute structured testing programs across keyword strategy, bidding approaches, ad copy, creative formats, and audience segmentation, documenting and communicating learnings clearly.
• Monitor campaign performance daily, identifying trends, anomalies, and opportunities and translating them into actionable recommendations for the Paid Search Director and broader team.
• Implement Smart Bidding, Performance Max, and other automation-forward strategies with a disciplined, test-and-validate approach.
• Champion the use of AI and automation tools to streamline workflows, reduce manual overhead, and drive operational efficiency at scale.
• Build and maintain performance reporting frameworks that clearly communicate Search and Shopping investment, efficiency, and business impact to internal stakeholders.
• Contribute to regular performance reviews, monthly recaps, and ad-hoc analyses, translating complex data into clear, executive-ready narrative.
• Develop a strong working understanding of attribution methodology and contribute to cross-channel measurement conversations in partnership with data and analytics teams.
• Maintain accuracy and consistency across all performance data pipelines, tagging, and measurement tooling for owned channels.
Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership
• Directly manage one Analyst, providing day-to-day direction, structured feedback, and ongoing development support to help them grow as a paid search practitioner.
• Partner closely with the Paid Search Director to ensure tactical execution is fully aligned with channel strategy and business objectives.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with creative, product, data, and growth teams to ensure search and shopping programs are well-integrated and operationally sound.
• Contribute to broader Growth team initiatives including new channel testing, measurement strategy, and paid media best practice development.