Paid Search Supervisor

Plano, TX (On-site)

$75K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid search strategy and operations for client campaigns, including budgeting, measurement, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Own daily workflow and optimization of search campaigns
  • Must-have: 3+ years of hands-on in-platform biddable media with Google & Microsoft Search (SA360 preferred)
  • Standout: Leadership in client-facing reporting and cross-functional collaboration

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • Direct and manage the daily workflow of all paid search campaigns, including proposal development, campaign activation & maintenance, and post-buy recaps
  • Lead paid search analysis, reporting and presentation on an ad-hoc, weekly, monthly & quarterly basis
  • In-platform paid search management including budget management, pacing, spend & performance forecasting, campaign creation, campaign optimization, ad copy creation, audience building, bidding strategy management
  • Collaborate with direct reports, colleagues, and peers across the organization
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and quickly adjusts thinking and actions should the realities of a situation shift
  • Drawing on previous experiences, uses a variety of approaches to identify client needs
  • Partner with clients to ensure their needs are met and their expectations surpassed
  • Understands the complex cause and effect patterns that may underlie issues and/or opportunities and thinks beyond the obvious to come up with creative solutions
  • Optimization and management of search campaign performance recommendations for existing campaigns based on reporting and analysis
  • Budget and performance projections for testing new search partners or technology
  • Provide recommendations for using search to support new client objectives or campaigns
  • Conduct monthly client billing audits
  • Partner with Associate Director to develop processes for improved work flow within Starcom and between agency partners and vendors
  • Maintain stellar relationships with the vendor partners to further advance Starcom as a preferred client partner
  • Provide formal training to new team employees
  • Working to master, identify, and communicate trends in search and in client industries
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in marketing, advertising, business or equivalent
  • 3+ years of hands-on in platform biddable media management experience with a focus on Google & Microsoft Search (preference to SA360 experience)
  • Experience leading paid search reporting, dashboarding, analytics & presentation to high level client stakeholders
  • Experience in applying search to brand-building & direct response initiatives
  • Understanding of traditional and interactive media planning elements
  • Strong analytics, organizational, and communication skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with intermediate to advanced understanding of Excel
  • Resourceful, curious, and motivated individual with an ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team setting
  • Strong organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills
  • Previous leadership/management experience is preferred
Preferred
  • Preference to SA360 experience
  • Previous leadership/management experience is preferred
Benefits
  • The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.
  • Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
  • 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)
  • Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances
  • The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.
  • We also offer medical and voluntary benefits to our freelancers and temporary employees. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance.
  • You must be actively employed for 90 consecutive calendar days in order to be eligible for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits.
  • You will also be eligible to participate in the Publicis 401(k) Plan after you complete 1,000 work hours in a consecutive 12-month period.
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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)
34

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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