Manager, Search Marketing

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Serving as primary contact for day-to-day clients
• Spearheading the development of program strategies and analyses for clients (e.g., target audience recommendation, geographic targeting, timing/scheduling strategy)
• Overseeing day-to-day internal team's work on bid strategy optimization and testing
• Establishing and driving paid search best practices for team to assimilate across tactics and activations
• Maintaining a level of quality assurance and holding the team accountable for delivering campaigns and executions with precision
• Writing and delivering media strategies, and overseeing the translation of these strategies into final media recommendations
• Ensuring that media deliverables meet and align with client goals and objectives
• Prioritizing teamwork, delegating responsibilities, and implementing a task management system that is universally accepted and applied
• Developing team for advancement through positive mentoring, providing critical feedback, and exuding a genuine interest in professional success of others
• Ensuring that analysts are effectively developing and optimizing campaigns for added value
• Overseeing performance forecasting, budgeting process and allocation with client and internal stakeholders
• Providing creative solutions to client challenges
• Fostering relationship with internal teams (Media, S&A and other capabilities) and external teams while managing multiple client stakeholders
• Understanding big picture implications and how insights can be applied in other programs and environments
• Active knowledge sharing with capability and broader agency

Requirements

• A four-year degree and five to seven years of digital media experience
• Four years of SEM experience
• Prior experience managing direct report(s) preferred
• Strong familiarity with the digital environment and a clear understanding of media planning and buying process (multi-channel knowledge and DoubleClick search expertise preferred)
• Strong understanding of media research tools - you know their strengths/weaknesses, and when and how to effectively use them
• Keen attention to detail and an analytical approach to achieving objectives

Nice to Have

• Experience managing direct report(s)

Qualifications

• A four-year degree
• Five to seven years of digital media experience
• Four years of SEM experience

Benefits & Perks

• Medical coverage
• Dental
• Vision
• Disability
• 401K
• Parental and family care leave
• Family forming assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible time off