Senior Search Engine Marketing Manager, Apartments.com

Atlanta, GA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize a full-funnel SEM program across Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, driving ROI with budget pacing, experiment-led improvements, and cross-functional collaboration to scale paid search impact.

  • SEM Ownership: manage budgets, bids, keywords, creatives, and structure to maximize ROI.
  • Data-Driven Growth: build dashboards, deliver actionable insights, and coordinate with analytics, product, and external teams to ensure data integrity.
  • Innovation: test new features and AI-assisted optimization to lift performance while monitoring the competitive landscape.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute SEM strategy across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, and emerging platforms
  • Own budget allocation, pacing, and optimization to maximize ROI and scale
  • Drive performance improvements across bids, keywords, creatives, and campaign structure
  • Build reporting frameworks and deliver actionable insights through dashboards and presentations
  • Lead testing and adoption of new features, automation, and growth opportunities
  • Partner with analytics, creative, product, and external teams to ensure data integrity and drive performance
  • Monitor competitive landscape and provide insights to sales and marketing teams
  • Explore and test ways to improve program performance utilizing AI techniques

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited , not-for-profit, in person University or College in Marketing or other relevant field .
  • 7 + years of work experience in business, marketing , search (SEM/SEO ) or related professional area .
  • Experience managing and optimizing $50MM+ annual digital marketing budgets across major performance marketing platforms and channels .
  • A track record of commitment to prior employers
  • Deep expertise in Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, including advanced campaign types .
  • Significant e xperience managing and scaling paid search budgets to drive measurable business impact , including managing a program within an organization in-house .
  • Strong analytical skillset with experience in Google Analytics (or similar), and advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets.
  • Proficiency with conversion tracking, attribution models, and ensuring data integrity across platforms .
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting performance insights and strategy to senior leadership and drafting written summaries .

Preferred

  • MBA preferred
  • Knowledge/experience of multifamily industry a plus
  • Experience with marketing mix modeling (MMM) and applying model outputs to inform budget allocation and channel strategy
  • Experience working with large datasets and querying databases (e.g., Google BigQuery )
  • Experience with enterprise bid management platforms such as Search Ads 360
  • Experience leveraging business data and feed-based signals to power automated bidding and campaign optimization
  • Hands-on experience with tagging and tracking implementation
  • Familiarity with AI tools to automate workflows, generate insights, and enhance campaign efficiency

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
  • Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
  • Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
  • Commuter and parking benefits
  • 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid time off
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent)
  • Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups
  • Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
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CoStar

Discover what the gold standard in commercial real estate means for you. Reliable tools, resources, trend forecasts and thought leadership every real estate professional needs to make data-driven decisions.Through a deep understanding of over 6 million commercial real estate properties in today’s market, we'll help you find relevant information, meet the right people, and make the deals that are critical to your success.Our highly trained research associates verify the accuracy of hundreds of details on the properties in CoStar's database. By interviewing everyone from brokers to owners and property managers, we make sure our data is up-to-date, trusted and reliable.

Founded in 1987
Arlington, Virginia, USA
213 employees (24 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$103.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
19.4%
Direct
74.9%
Referral
4.2%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~213

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
16 (8% of company)
Median Career Experience
40 years
Median Tenure
4.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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