We are hiring for our Paid Media team, looking for a Senior Paid Search Specialist - a performance-driven marketer with a strong mastery of paid search advertising systems, the evolving AI search environment, and a deep understanding of the AI ecosystem and emerging ad platforms. This is not just a tactical role; it requires strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and high standards of execution across digital advertising platforms, particularly Google, YouTube, Bing, and emerging AI platforms like Kontext, Koah, Perplexity, Claude, and OpenAI (some of these platforms don’t have ad services yet). Though primarily focused on Google, the role will require expertise and campaign deployment on other paid search based platforms as well, and a willingness to try new platforms as AI search product evolve.
Perfect candidates will be obsessed with Paid Search Advertising, experts at search buying behavior, with a clear demonstrated history of selling products through paid search advertising, scaling ad accounts upwards of $1M USD per month, and having excellent client relationship management skills. You live and breath ads manager, you are curious about the emerging AI advertising ecosystem, and performance marketing at large. You want to be a part of the best team in the business at scaling brands through digital advertising.
You’ll report to the Managing Director of the department and play a key role in scaling paid media campaigns across a portfolio of high-growth consumer brands. You’ll be responsible for owning creative strategy, campaign builds, optimization, and reporting, while working closely with creative, creator, brand and analytics teams to ensure performance goals are met.
This is a fast-paced, high-accountability environment designed for marketers who are ambitious, curious, and ready to grow. You’ll gain hands-on experience in a broad range of platforms and verticals, while developing the skills needed to lead performance strategies end-to-end.
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This is a fully remote role supporting a team in the EST time zone (9 AM–5 PM EST).