Senior Manager, Paid Search - Sportsbook

New York, USA (On-site)

$140K/yr – $165K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid search strategy and optimization for Fanatics Sportsbook with cross-team collaboration and full-budget ownership.

  • Own day-to-day strategy, execution, and optimization of paid search campaigns.
  • Must-have: 6+ years in paid search with hands-on Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, or similar tools.
  • Standout: OSB-economics focus (CAC/CPA/LTV) and cross-functional alignment across Promotions, CRM, and Brand.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day strategy, execution, pacing, and optimization of paid search campaigns for Fanatics Sportsbook.
  • Build and refine campaign structures across brand, non-brand, competitor, state, event, promotion, and app acquisition search demand.
  • Manage budgets, bid strategies, keyword coverage, ad copy, landing pages, and performance targets to support acquisition, first deposit, active customer, revenue, and payback goals.
  • Optimize campaigns against OSB-specific economics including CAC, CPA, deposit quality, handle contribution, net gaming revenue, payback, and lifetime value.
  • Translate weekly and monthly performance data into actionable insights, budget recommendations, test learnings, and executive-ready readouts.
  • Partner with Promotions, CRM, Trading, Brand, Product, Creative teams to align campaigns with sports moments, market priorities, offers, and customer lifecycle initiatives.
  • Manage agency workflows and platform partner relationships to ensure accurate builds, timely optimizations, and clear accountability for performance outcomes.
  • Lead testing across match types, bidding automation, creative messaging, landing pages, audience signals, app campaigns, and emerging search products.
  • Maintain rigorous QA across ad copy, tracking parameters, destination URLs, state eligibility, responsible gaming requirements, and compliance approvals.
  • Mentor and provide direction to the Search Associate Buyer on campaign trafficking, reporting, pacing, and optimization tasks.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in paid search, performance marketing, growth marketing, or a related digital media role.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Search Ads 360, Apple Search Ads, Google Analytics, and campaign management tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage performance budgets against CAC, CPA, ROAS, revenue, payback, and LTV goals.
  • Experience building campaigns, analyzing query-level performance, optimizing bid strategies, and developing structured testing roadmaps.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to connect channel-level results to broader business outcomes.
  • Experience working with agencies, platform partners, creative teams, analytics teams, and compliance stakeholders.
  • Strong presentation skills across internal and external stakeholders.
  • Detail oriented, deadline focused, observant, adaptable, and innovative.
  • Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices in New York City and Denver as well as other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Preferred

  • Experience in sports betting, gaming, daily fantasy, fintech, subscription, marketplace, or other regulated performance marketing environments preferred.
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Fanatics

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Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

Founded in 2002
New York, New York, USA
14K employees (1,648 in marketing)
50% recommend to a friend
55% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
167.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.8%
Direct
43.9%
Referral
10.1%
Social
1.8%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~13.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
880 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
3.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$4.9B
Last Raise
$700M
Private Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Private Equity • $700M
  • Mar 2022
    Private Equity • $1.5B
  • Jan 2022
    Series Unknown • $10M

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