Beacon’s Digital Advertising Team has an immediate opening for a Digital Marketing Paid Search Analyst managing paid ads on Google or social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. Training will be provided, so prior experience managing paid campaigns is a plus, but not required. Candidates should also possess the technical experience, business acumen, marketing and people skills to successfully manage customer accounts and contribute to the exciting growth and knowledge of our digital marketing team.
We are primarily seeking candidates that live in the Greensboro or Wilmington, NC area. We will consider very strong candidates that live outside the area, but no relocation assistance will be available.
The Digital Marketing Paid Search Analyst will

• Setup, monitor and tune pay-per-click (PPC/SEM) campaigns on Google, Bing, and social media
• Utilize Google Analytics to shape digital strategies and maximize ROI
• Provide creative and innovative marketing ideas, concepts and designs to support customer goals and objectives
• Conceptualize, define and initiate marketing tests (A/B, multivariate, keyword bids, ad copy, and landing pages) in order to continually improve key metrics (click, search, convert) across campaigns
• Manage search campaigns and analyze underlying data to continuously improve performance
• Perform research and analysis to gain data-driven insights about search engine visitor behavior from website data on traffic patterns, order volume, conversion funnel, navigation behavior, pathing, and product selection
• Create custom reports and ad-hoc traffic analyses based on site goals to measure website performance
  

Requirements

• Strong analytical and marketing skills
• Confident with written & oral communication, especially as it pertains to customer management
• Experience analyzing and presenting data
• Self-motivated, positive personality with excellent interpersonal skills
• Past Sales or Project Management experience a plus
• Ability to work on numerous concurrent projects while still hitting deadlines
  

A Great Place to Work
Since 1998, Beacon has focused on providing high-quality web solutions for its customers and building a work environment that supports a great work/life balance. Consistently named as one of the best places to work, our employees enjoy flex-time schedules, work from home options, health club membership, casual work environment, a company-wide profit-sharing bonus program, 100% insurance coverage (health, dental, vision), 401(k) plan with a generous company match, 10 paid holidays which includes your “birthday holiday”, an ample supply of PTO, semi-annual employee meetings so everyone is “in the know”, weekly trivia contests, and fun monthly social events.
Community service is very important to Beacon as well - feeding hungry families, donating gifts for children during the holidays, raising money for the United Way and through its Weaving Hope mission to build preschools in Rwanda. And of course, we offer highly competitive compensation, as well as educational and travel opportunities.
The Beacon team genuinely enjoys working together and helping its customers fully utilize web technology to maximize the growth of their businesses. If you meet the qualifications above and believe you would thrive in this environment, please check out our website and send us your resume.
About Beacon
For nearly 25 years, Beacon shines as a nationally recognized, full-service web solutions firm through its comprehensive web design, digital marketing and web hosting services that focuses on Higher Education, Multi-Family Residential Property Management and Retail/Wholesale. The majority of Beacon’s work is with colleges and universities around the country, with customers across 45 states. We work together as a team to build stunning and highly effective websites, coupled with digital marketing and hosting services to drive admissions and student engagement. Our multi-family property services support hundreds of properties to market and fill open apartments for large-portfolio property management companies. Beacon has direct partnership arrangements with some of the leading, best of breed, technology companies, including Google (as one of the longest active Google Analytics Certified Partners in the US). Beacon is also recognized locally as one of the top managed IT services providers, with our staff monitoring and supporting desktops, servers and networking of many companies within the Triad.
We are a tight-knit team of experts across a wide range of technical, creative, marketing and professional skills that love working together to provide a direct and valuable impact to our customers. Entry level employees get firsthand experience with industry experts. Experienced employees expand and share their knowledge while making an immediate impact. Beacon is really all about teamwork, helping others use technology effectively and work/life balance.

• Compensation includes a competitive salary and full benefits.
• Interviews will be scheduled based on qualified resumes. Please, no walk-ins or phone calls
• No Relocation Assistance available.