Sr. Manager Paid Search

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$115K/yr – $165K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize paid search strategy across major engines, lead experimentation and attribution programs, and drive cross-functional alignment on budget, bidding, and audience decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own paid search strategy across Google Ads, Bing, and other engines, managing seven figures in monthly media spend
  • Build and scale a non-brand experimentation program, designing structured tests to unlock incremental, profitable growth
  • Design and run experiments such as geo tests, holdouts, and bid and budget tests to measure true incrementality, not just last-click wins
  • Set account strategy across budget allocation, bidding, audience targeting, impression share, and quality score
  • Lead campaign structuring, keyword and audience strategy, and large-scale keyword architecture across search and display
  • Guide ad copy and creative testing, driving rapid iteration to improve performance
  • Partner with analytics to define reporting frameworks and turn weekly and monthly performance into clear strategic recommendations
  • Apply rigorous analytical thinking to attribution and measurement, pressure-testing what is actually driving results
  • Move quickly in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment, reprioritizing as new data lands
  • Serve as the team's subject matter expert on paid search and PPC trends

Requirements

  • 5 to 7+ years in SEM and Paid Search (PPC), with a track record managing, optimizing, and scaling seven figures in monthly media spend
  • Proven experience scaling paid search and expanding beyond brand into non-brand growth
  • Strong experimentation mindset, with hands-on experience designing and reading tests (incrementality, geo, holdout, A/B)
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills, comfortable reasoning through attribution, incrementality, and basic statistics to separate signal from noise (no coding or SQL required)
  • Expertise across major PPC platforms (Google Ads, Bing Ads, and others)
  • Experience with Google Analytics and internal reporting tools
  • Proven ability to work independently while influencing and aligning multiple teams and stakeholders
  • Ability to work quickly and flexibly, staying effective as priorities shift
  • Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
  • BS/BA degree preferred

Preferred

  • Google Ads / Bing certification
  • Experience in financial services

Benefits

  • Our Core Benefits Include:
  • Generous PTO
  • 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
  • 1 Service Day Annually
  • 401k with 3.5% Company Match
  • Paid Parental Bonding Leave
  • Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
  • Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader
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Founded in 2004
Chicago, Illinois, USA
449 employees (43 in marketing)
86% recommend to a friend
90% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.3%
Direct
58.2%
Referral
4.6%
Social
1.1%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~449

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
36 (8% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
1.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2020
    Private Equity

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