Associate Director, Paid Search & Feed Strategy

Plano, TX (Remote)

$97K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize paid shopping programs across multiple platforms, translating business priorities into scalable campaign architecture while leading cross-functional collaboration to improve feed health and eligibility.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own strategy, execution, and optimization of Google Shopping, Performance Max, Microsoft Shopping, feed-based Demand Gen, and dynamic remarketing programs.
  • Manage campaign structure, bidding strategy, audience segmentation, budget allocation, pacing, and forecasting.
  • Develop testing roadmaps focused on revenue growth, ROAS, profit, SKU coverage, and customer acquisition.
  • Translate business priorities into campaign architecture, including priority SKU groups, launch readiness, and promotional support.
  • Partner with Feedonomics or internal feed teams to maintain feed health, data integrity, and platform eligibility.
  • Audit and optimize product attributes, titles, descriptions, images, GTINs, availability, pricing, custom labels, promotions, and shipping information.
  • Monitor feed diagnostics and resolve Merchant Center errors, warnings, disapprovals, and product-level coverage gaps.
  • Build feed segmentation and custom-label frameworks to support campaign structure, bidding logic, priority products, margin tiers, inventory status, and business objectives.
  • Partner with SEO, eCommerce, and web development teams to support accurate product, offer, review, availability, and pricing schema.
  • Translate structured data and platform requirements into clear recommendations for engineering, site operations, or feed teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of paid search experience.
  • 3+ years working directly with Shopping campaigns and product feeds.
  • Experience with Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Google Merchant Center, and feed management tools.
  • Strong understanding of product feed architecture, structured data/schema markup, eCommerce platforms, SKU-level reporting, and Performance Max.
  • Advanced Excel, Looker Studio, or BI reporting experience

Preferred

  • Experience supporting enterprise retailers or large SKU catalogs.
  • Familiarity with AI shopping experiences and merchant ecosystems.
  • Knowledge of PLAs, PMax, Dynamic Product Ads, retail media feeds, and social commerce feeds.
  • Experience collaborating with engineering, development, SEO, and eCommerce teams.
  • Ability to simplify technical feed issues into executive-ready business implications.

Benefits

  • The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.
  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • 'Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
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Starcom

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With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With almost 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellanova, McDonald's, Novartis, Samsung, Visa, WK Kellogg Company and more.

Founded in 1936
Chicago, Illinois, USA
6.1K employees (2,084 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
59% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.1%
Direct
41.6%
Referral
9.1%
Social
4.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,983 (33% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
35

Funding

Total Funding
$57.1M
Last Raise
$43.2M
Series A, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Series A • $43.2M
  • Aug 2025
    Series A
  • May 2025
    Series A • $13.9M

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