Paid Search Marketing Manager

San Diego, CA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the paid search program by aligning internal stakeholders with the agency, shaping strategy, and guiding testing, tooling adoption, and continuous optimization across bid management and keyword strategy.

  • Lead governance between teams and ensure clear direction.
  • Set testing agendas and roadmap priorities to deliver against business goals.
  • Drive optimization efforts and adoption of AI-powered features to boost performance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary point of contact between internal stakeholders and the agency partner, ensuring the PPC program stays aligned to business goals and priorities.
  • Interpret business objectives, growth targets, and marketing strategies, translating them into clear, actionable direction for the agency.
  • Contribute to the paid search roadmap, setting priorities, defining testing agendas, and ensuring the agency executes against the right strategies at the right time.
  • Partner with the agency to achieve performance targets, timelines, and quality standards, reviewing and providing feedback on campaign strategy, structure, ad copy, and landing page recommendations.
  • Leverage hands-on PPC knowledge to ask the right questions, identify gaps, and push for continuous improvement across bid management, keyword strategy, and campaign optimization.
  • Evaluate AI-powered tools and platform-native features (such as Smart Bidding and Performance Max) and collaborate with partners on when and how to adopt them.
  • Analyze campaign performance data and synthesize insights for internal stakeholders, translating PPC metrics into clear business implications and recommendations.
  • Work with the SEO team to ensure paid and organic search strategies are complementary and coordinated.
  • Collaborate with analytics, creative, and web teams on landing page testing, conversion tracking, and audience segmentation.
  • Lead project management for key PPC initiatives, defining timelines, aligning stakeholders, tracking milestones, and ensuring on-time delivery.

Requirements

  • 3–4 years of hands-on PPC experience, with a focus on Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and other search platforms.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience interpreting campaign data to inform strategy (Google Ads, SA360, Adobe Analytics, or similar).
  • Solid working knowledge of bid management, keyword strategy, ad copy best practices, quality score optimization, and A/B testing.
  • Familiarity with AI-powered advertising tools and a willingness to adopt emerging technologies to drive efficiency and performance.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple workstreams, align stakeholders, and keep initiatives on track.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to distill complex PPC concepts for non-technical stakeholders and provide clear direction to agency partners.
  • Comfortable operating in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment where priorities can shift and strong judgment is required.
  • Collaborative and proactive team player who takes ownership and drives results.
  • Bachelor Degree in Marketing

Preferred

  • Experience managing enterprise-scale paid search programs.
  • Prior experience working directly with external marketing agencies.
  • Experience translating business goals into measurable PPC performance.
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Catapult Federal Services

Catapult Federal Services is headquartered in Plano, TX, with its primary business operations office located in the greater Washington, D.C. area. We provide nationwide technical services and solutions to federal agency customers, commercial industry partners and non-profit organizations. Our service delivery is tailored to align with each customer’s unique needs and to empower our clients to achieve their objectives. We design solutions that will optimize technical environments, increase cost efficiencies and reduce operational risk. Our ability to deliver creative solutions, leveraging proven and award winning technical SME's, help Catapult clients successfully design, implement and maintain mission critical technology solutions. Catapult’s ability to understand and prioritize each client's mission, while consistently achieving measurable results, translates ordinary business relationships into trusted partnerships.

Founded in 2017
Plano, Texas, USA
15 employees

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.9%
Direct
36.3%
Referral
31.3%
Social
9.6%

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Current headcount: ~15

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