Integrated Activation Specialist-Paid Search

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$67K/yr – $90K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end paid search activation for pharma campaigns across Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, including campaign setup, QA, trafficking, optimization, and reporting. Collaborate with Center of Excellence and brand teams, ensure compliance, and test AI-driven features within guardrails.

  • Campaign activation, structure, and optimization
  • Daily trafficking, QA, and performance monitoring
  • Cross-functional collaboration and results documentation

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign Activation
  • Build and traffic paid search campaigns across Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, including account structure, keywords, ad copy, extensions, and conversion tracking
  • Apply established SEM best practices and pharmaceutical compliance requirements to every build
  • Run pre-launch QA on all campaigns using the team's standard checklist, covering match types, negatives, budgets, bids, landing page URLs, tracking parameters, and required disclaimer/ISI elements
  • Manage day-to-day trafficking and change requests, turning them around within agreed timelines
  • Use platform AI and automation tools such as automated bidding, responsive search ads, and audience signals where they improve efficiency, within compliance guardrails
  • Stay current on Google and Microsoft platform releases and flag features worth testing to the Paid Search Supervisor
  • Maintain working familiarity with how AI-driven results (e.g., Google AI Overviews) affect search behavior and campaign performance
  • Support pilots of new tools and tactics by handling setup, tracking, and results documentation
  • Monitor pacing and performance daily across Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, adjusting bids, budgets, keywords, and negatives to hit target KPIs

Requirements

  • 2+ years of paid search experience
  • Hands-on proficiency in Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising; working knowledge of SA360, Google Analytics, and SEM tools (e.g., SEMrush, AdThena)
  • Hands-on experience activating paid social and programmatic campaigns is a significant plus, given the integrated nature of the role
  • Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and building recurring performance reports
  • QA discipline, especially in a regulated environment
  • Familiarity with pharmaceutical advertising regulations and MLR review, or and work within compliance requirements
  • Comfortable using AI tools
  • Commitment to staying informed about platform updates, industry trends, and regulatory changes, and a passion for continuous learning

Preferred

  • Hands-on experience activating paid social and programmatic campaigns is a significant plus, given the integrated nature of the role

Benefits

  • Inizio Evoke offers a fully remote work environment and outstanding company-paid benefits, including medical, dental, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Inizio Evoke

Inizio Evoke is a global health marketing, communications, and transformation platform unlocking growth through data-driven insights and human centricity. We are purpose-built to make health more humanTM. With core expertise and specialty brands in Marketing, Comms, Transformation, Access, and Media, we serve as a premier partner for the world's most ambitious healthcare organizations. Proudly part of Inizio – the market-leading commercialization partner for health and life sciences. From early-stage development to loss of exclusivity, we simplify complexity, unlock value, and make collaboration seamless at every pivotal moment – unlocking growth through human insight and transformative creativity.

Founded in 2009
New York, New York, USA
1.2K employees (383 in marketing)

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$67K/yr – $90K/yr

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Integrated Activation Specialist-Paid Search

Inizio Evoke · Chicago, IL · Remote