Associate Director, Paid Search & Feed Strategy

Plano, TX (Hybrid)

$97K/yr – $140K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 6 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the strategy, execution, and optimization of Shopping, Performance Max, and feed-based programs, coordinating cross-team efforts to drive revenue growth and profitability.

  • Translate business priorities into campaign architecture
  • Lead feed health, data integrity, and platform eligibility improvements
  • Provide client-ready performance updates and recommendations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own strategy, execution, and optimization of Google Shopping, Performance Max, Microsoft Shopping, feed-based Demand Gen, and dynamic remarketing programs.
  • Manage campaign structure, bidding strategy, audience segmentation, budget allocation, pacing, and forecasting.
  • Develop testing roadmaps focused on revenue growth, ROAS, profit, SKU coverage, and customer acquisition.
  • Translate business priorities into campaign architecture, including priority SKU groups, launch readiness, and promotional support.
  • Partner with Feedonomics or internal feed teams to maintain feed health, data integrity, and platform eligibility.
  • Audit and optimize product attributes, titles, descriptions, images, GTINs, availability, pricing, custom labels, promotions, and shipping information.
  • Monitor feed diagnostics and resolve Merchant Center errors, warnings, disapprovals, and product-level coverage gaps.
  • Build feed segmentation and custom-label frameworks to support campaign structure, bidding logic, priority products, margin tiers, inventory status, and business objectives.
  • Partner with SEO, eCommerce, and web development teams to support accurate product, offer, review, availability, and pricing schema.
  • Translate structured data and platform requirements into clear recommendations for engineering, site operations, or feed teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of paid search experience.
  • 3+ years working directly with Shopping campaigns and product feeds.
  • Experience with Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Google Merchant Center, and feed management tools.
  • Strong understanding of product feed architecture, structured data/schema markup, eCommerce platforms, SKU-level reporting, and Performance Max.
  • Advanced Excel, Looker Studio, or BI reporting experience

Preferred

  • Experience supporting enterprise retailers or large SKU catalogs.
  • Familiarity with AI shopping experiences and merchant ecosystems.
  • Knowledge of PLAs, PMax, Dynamic Product Ads, retail media feeds, and social commerce feeds.
  • Experience collaborating with engineering, development, SEO, and eCommerce teams.
  • Ability to simplify technical feed issues into executive-ready business implications.

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
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Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,719 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
13.5 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
144