Paid Search Marketing Manager

Atlanta, GA (Remote)

$105K/yr – $135K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid search strategy and execution across LawnStarter's portfolio as an IC, optimizing spend and ROAS.

  • Own paid search strategy and daily execution across LawnStarter, Lawn Love, and Home Gnome.
  • Must-have: Deep experience with RSA/DSA, PMax, and bidding strategies.
  • Standout: IC role managing multi-brand spend and cross-brand optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You'll own paid search strategy and execution across our entire portfolio. This is an IC role; you're not managing people, you're managing millions in ad spend. You'll work directly in the accounts daily while also thinking strategically about how to scale efficiently.
  • Responsive Search Ads & Dynamic Search Ads: Own RSA and DSA strategy for core mowing across Google and Bing — creative testing, feed coverage, campaign structure, and bidding
  • Performance Max, AI Search Max & Demand Gen: Run and optimize PMax, AI Search Max, and Demand Gen campaigns alongside core search — understanding where each campaign type fits in the funnel and how they interact
  • Smart bidding strategy: Define and manage tCPA, tROAS, and portfolio bid strategies across brands and campaign types; audit alignment between bid strategy, goal type, and funnel stage
  • Attribution & conversion infrastructure: Own attribution tracking setup, event tracking implementation, and conversion loop QA — ensuring every touchpoint is measured accurately and the data feeding smart bidding is trustworthy
  • Landing page & customer journey optimization: Drive landing page testing, QA the full customer experience from click through first service complete, and identify where the funnel leaks between ad click and completed job
  • Multi-brand strategy: Manage LawnStarter, Lawn Love, and Home Gnome campaigns with clear positioning and minimal cannibalization
  • Budget allocation: Decide where dollars go across brands, markets, and campaign types to maximize ROAS
  • Testing roadmap: Run structured experiments on bidding strategies, ad copy, landing pages, and audience segments
  • Reporting & insights: Build dashboards, surface insights, and translate data into action

Requirements

  • AI-native. You use AI tools to move faster, whether that's generating ad copy variations, analyzing keyword data, writing scripts, or automating reporting. You're experimenting with AI-powered bidding and creative tools. This is unlikely to be a good fit if you're skeptical of AI or prefer doing everything manually.
  • Deep in the data. You're happiest inside Google Ads, spreadsheets, and dashboards. You spot patterns others miss and make decisions based on evidence, not intuition. This is unlikely to be a good fit if you prefer high-level strategy without getting into the numbers.
  • Systems thinker. You don't just optimize individual campaigns; you think about how campaigns interact, how to structure accounts for scale, and how to build processes that don't break as complexity grows. This is unlikely to be a good fit if you prefer ad-hoc optimization over systematic approaches.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity. You'll often make decisions with incomplete data. You know when to analyze more and when to just run a test. This is unlikely to be a good fit if you need certainty before taking action.
  • Strong communicator. You can explain what's working and why to people who don't live in Google Ads. You write clear reports, flag risks early, and advocate for your recommendations. This is unlikely to be a good fit if you struggle to translate technical details for non-specialists.
  • Conversion-tracking fluent. You understand how event tracking, tag management, and attribution models actually work — not just how to read the report, but how to QA the implementation, spot broken conversion loops, and correct data before it corrupts smart bidding. This is unlikely to be a good fit if you rely entirely on platform-reported numbers without questioning whether they're right.
  • Bias for action. You'd rather launch a test and learn than debate hypotheticals. You ship fast, measure, and iterate. This is unlikely to be a good fit if you need extensive approval processes or prefer lengthy planning cycles.

Benefits

  • Base salary: $105,000-$135,000 depending on experience
  • Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision
  • Fully remote: Work from anywhere in the US. This role requires focus time for analysis and flexibility across time zones
  • Unlimited PTO: Results matter, not hours. Take what you need
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LawnStarter

4.1 Glassdoor

LawnStarter is a marketplace for outdoor home services. We offer the simplest and most effective solution for ordering and managing outdoor home services, with operations in more than 3,000 cities across the United States. With incredibly high ratings from consumers and providers, it is easy to see why we have industry-leading retention on both sides of the marketplace and are poised to build a multi-billion-dollar consumer brand.We have successfully raised over $35M from some of the leading technology and growth investors.

Founded in 2013
Austin, Texas, USA
437 employees (65 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
83% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
388.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$150.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
58.5%
Direct
35.1%
Referral
4.3%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~439

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
56 (13% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$17.6M
Last Raise
$10.5M
Series Unknown, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2019
    Series Unknown • $10.5M
  • Jun 2015
    Series A • $6M
  • Jan 2015
    Seed • $1M

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