Senior Paid Search Manager (SEM)

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$145K/yr – $175K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize the full paid search program from strategy through automated testing, delivering CAC/CPA/ROAS improvements.

  • Own paid search strategy, execution, and optimization end to end
  • Develop advanced bidding frameworks and AI-driven tooling

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own paid search strategy, execution, pacing, and optimization end to end.
  • Build and refine campaign structure across brand, non-brand, competitor, event, seasonal, and promotional categories, managing keyword coverage, bids, copy, and targets.
  • Manage the account actively, making multiple bidding, budget, and pacing updates per day.
  • Run the tactical craft: search-term mining and negative-keyword hygiene, RSA and asset-level creative testing, and Quality Score diagnostics across landing page experience, ad relevance, and expected CTR.
  • Plan for seasonality around the sharp, predictable spikes of major on-sales, using seasonality adjustments and data exclusions to keep bidding ahead of demand.
  • Develop advanced bidding frameworks beyond platform defaults (tCPA, tROAS, value-based bidding).
  • Build the test-and-learn roadmap for major platform capabilities, including AI Max and other Smart Bidding forms.
  • Build or co-build AI and automation tooling for auditing, bid and budget optimization, and reporting, and own AI or ML integration into the channel.
  • Optimize against CAC, CPA, ROAS, and LTV, connecting channel results to business outcomes.
  • Protect conversion tracking and measurement integrity, including enhanced conversions and value accuracy, since every bidding and budget decision downstream depends on it.

Requirements

  • 5 to 8 years in paid search or performance marketing, with your tactical depth intact, whether you rose quickly and stayed close to the craft or are a more senior operator returning to hands-on work.
  • Deep tactical mastery of Google Ads (Microsoft Advertising a plus). You build and optimize campaign structure and bidding personally.
  • Demonstrated use of AI at a software level. You have built or co-built tools, with a technical partner, a software kit, or on your own, that turn paid-search best practices into automated auditing, bid and budget optimization, and reporting. This is beyond platform-native automation and chat prompting.
  • Advanced bidding fluency (tCPA, tROAS, value-based) and budget management against CAC, CPA, ROAS, and LTV.
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including query-level analysis. SQL and BI tools a plus.
  • Broader paid-acquisition experience (paid social, app install). SEM is the focus, but breadth informs how you build and opens future scope.
  • Experience with Search Ads 360 or third-party PPC tooling.
  • Sports, entertainment, and/or two-sided marketplace experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or the sciences.
  • A hybrid in-office approach, enabling remote work a portion of each week

Preferred

  • Broader paid-acquisition experience (paid social, app install)
  • Experience with Search Ads 360 or third-party PPC tooling
  • Sports, entertainment, and/or two-sided marketplace experience

Benefits

  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan Contribution (401k, IRA)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Holidays)
  • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
  • Training & Development
  • $100 Monthly Stipend to Attend Live Events
  • Employee Outings
  • Free Lunch & Snacks
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Founded in 2011
New York, New York, USA
95 employees (15 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
82% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$867.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.4%
Direct
55.6%
Referral
3%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~95

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (13% of company)
Median Tenure
0.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$290M
Last Raise
$250M
Series Unknown, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2024
    Series Unknown • $250M
  • Aug 2019
    Private Equity • $40M
  • May 2012
    Seed

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