Paid Media Search Strategist

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end paid media engine across search and social, turning strategy into measurable growth with solid measurement, automation, and scalable experiments.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Set up attribution, tagging, and automation to drive consistent ROAS and actionable insights.
  • Demand Generation: Plan and execute integrated search and social programs aligned to seasonal demand and KPIs.
  • Campaign Execution: Build, optimize, and iterate campaigns in-platform with testing and fatigue management to lift efficiency.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Growth: Lead the strategy and execution of paid media campaigns across paid search (Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, app ecosystems) and paid social (Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and other platforms), aligning media investment with client business goals and full-funnel performance.
  • Planning: Plan, build, and manage integrated search and social media plans against growth forecasts to hit the goals and KPIs set with each client. Develop granular keyword architectures and query mapping on search, audience and targeting frameworks on social, and full-funnel roadmaps that tie both to seasonal demand and business objectives.
  • Campaign Execution & Optimization: Build and manage campaigns directly in-platform (keyword and audience segmentation, ad copy and creative rotation, and bid strategy), and run the day-to-day optimization that maximizes efficiency and return on spend across both channels.
  • Automation: Work with Ad Tech and Product teams to implement smart bidding, feed-based automation, and scripts on search, and to get the most from native platform automation like Meta Advantage+ and TikTok Smart Performance campaigns on social, scaling performance while reducing manual lift.
  • Creative Testing: Partner with Creative to brief, test, and iterate on ad creative at the pace paid social demands, treating creative as a primary performance lever, managing ad fatigue, and feeding winning concepts back into the testing cycle to keep the algorithm supplied with fresh, high-performing assets.
  • Conversion Tracking: Own conversion tracking end to end, from implementing tags and events through troubleshooting, partnering with Analytics and Tech to protect data integrity across GA4, GTM, server-side tracking, and the platform pixels and APIs (Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn) that power measurement and attribution.
  • Performance Reporting: Serve as the primary voice for paid media performance, turning campaign data into clear, executive-level narratives that connect metrics to business growth. Lead weekly client meetings and presentations, identify trends and performance drivers, and forecast opportunities, keeping reporting actionable, consultative, and tied to each client’s bottom-line goals.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work alongside Creative, SEO, Analytics, and Account teams so paid search and paid social reinforce each other and complement broader digital marketing efforts.
  • Continuous Learning: Stay ahead of algorithm updates, platform betas, and automation changes across Google, Microsoft, Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn to keep campaigns at the leading edge.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience managing paid search and paid social campaigns, ideally within an agency or performance marketing environment. This is an in-platform execution role, not strategy oversight alone.
  • Deep platform expertise across Google Ads (Search, Display, Youtube), Microsoft Ads, and app ecosystems (Apple Search Ads, Google UAC) on the search side, and Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn on the social side, with Pinterest, Snapchat, or Reddit a plus.
  • Strong command of keyword architecture, query mapping, and bidding models on search, plus audience building, targeting, and creative testing on social.
  • Proven experience managing multi-million-dollar media budgets with accountability for CPA, CAC, ROAS, and ROI performance.
  • Proficiency with automation and campaign-management tools (e.g., SA360, Skai, Marin, Smartly.io, or in-house API-based solutions) and with native platform automation such as Performance Max, Advantage+, and Smart Performance campaigns.
  • Advanced analytical skills, with the ability to translate campaign data into meaningful insights and business recommendations.
  • Hands-on experience designing and running A/B tests across ad copy, creative, landing pages, and bidding strategies.
  • Working knowledge of GA4, Adobe Analytics, Google Tag Manager, conversion APIs and server-side tracking, attribution modeling, and feed-based automation.

Preferred

  • Pinterest, Snapchat, or Reddit a plus.

Benefits

  • Competitive Compensation
  • - Annual base salary range at $110,000-$120,000 commensurate with experience and qualifications
  • - Annual performance based discretionary bonus
  • Robust Health Coverage
  • - 3 Medical plans
  • - Dental and Vision
  • - Life, AD&D and other voluntary insurance
  • Tax-Advantaged Accounts
  • - 401K retirement plan
  • - 4% matching and 100% vested upon enrollment
  • - Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • - Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • - Health, Dependent Care, Commuter
  • Family Friendly Benefits
  • - 100% paid parental leave for all new parents with eligible tenure
  • - Building Healthy Families program if enrolled through Medical plan
  • Time Off to Recharge
  • - Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy
  • - 9 company holidays plus 1 floating holiday
  • Extras that Make Life Easier`,`- College savings and student loan repayment assistance`- Monthly cell phone stipend`- Access to wellness programs at no cost if enrolled through Medical plan, including:`- Gym membership reimbursement`- LiveHealth Online virtual care`- Personalized support from a Well-being Coach`- Employee Assistance Program at no cost`- Free confidential counseling and emotional support services`- On-demand access to Emotional Well-being resources (ranging from relaxation techniques to stress management)
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