Paid Search Specialist

Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $90K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize paid search programs across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, driving leads, sales, and brand visibility while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

  • Own day-to-day campaign execution and optimization
  • Drive insights through data analysis and testing
  • Coordinate with analytics, media, and creative teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage the day-to-day execution and optimization of paid search campaigns across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, supporting goals such as lead generation, ecommerce sales, qualified traffic, pipeline growth, and brand visibility.
  • Support campaign planning and setup, including keyword research, account structure, audience strategy, ad copy, bidding, budgets, and trafficking.
  • Monitor campaign performance and compile data for reporting, surfacing trends, risks, insights, and optimization opportunities.
  • Analyze results across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, GA4, and reporting dashboards to identify patterns and recommend improvements.
  • Contribute to testing across ad copy, keywords, audiences, bidding strategies, landing pages, and campaign structure.
  • Maintain organized campaign documentation, budgets, timelines, pacing trackers, and optimization records.
  • Support conversion tracking, UTM governance, and tagging QA in partnership with analytics and operations teams.
  • Write clear, performance-minded search ad copy tailored to user intent, funnel stage, and client goals.
  • Collaborate with media, analytics, creative, and client strategy teams to support integrated campaign execution.
  • Use AI tools independently to improve analysis quality, accelerate research, support ad copy development, and enhance personal work output.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Business, Analytics, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience managing paid search campaigns across Google Ads and/or Microsoft Ads — agency or multi-client experience preferred.
  • Working knowledge of paid search setup, optimization, and reporting, including keyword strategy, match types, Responsive Search Ads, extensions, bidding strategies, audience targeting, and budget pacing.
  • Familiarity with Performance Max, Demand Gen, AI Max, or other evolving Google Ads campaign types is a plus.
  • Comfort with GA4, conversion tracking, UTM strategy, and basic tagging concepts.
  • Comfort with data and reporting tools; proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, required.
  • Experience with or willingness to learn AI-powered tools for analysis, research, workflow efficiency, and message development.
  • Strong attention to detail, effective communication skills, and the ability to produce polished, client-ready work with limited revisions.
  • A proactive, curious mindset with a team-first approach and a willingness to ask questions, test new ideas, and improve how work gets done.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities across clients, timelines, and deliverables in a fast-paced agency environment.
Prophet logo

Prophet

3.8 Glassdoor

Prophet is the Uncommon Growth Company—accelerating impact for business and marketing leaders through consulting, experience, and creative services. With 15 global offices and 500+ strategists, analysts, creatives, marketers, digital experts, and change agents, Prophet has worked with the world’s most successful companies, including CVS Health, Home Depot, Marriott, Netflix, Electrolux and UBS, partnering with them from strategy to in-market execution. Our teams are committed to partnering with clients to develop solutions that drive lasting impact and help move society forward. Prophet is an equal-opportunity employer and strives to build a firm of many voices. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment, promotion and evaluation decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

Founded in 1992
San Francisco, California, USA
725 employees (149 in marketing)
70% recommend to a friend
89% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$70K/yr – $90K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($80K) is 13% above the median base salary for Paid Search Specialist roles in the United States ($71K).

Paid Search Specialist median pay in the United States

$71K/yr

Most earn $65K to $80K. Based on 32 salaries, including bonus and equity.

See all Prophet salaries

Funding

Total Funding
$10.8M
Last Raise
$1.1M
Debt Financing, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2019
    Debt Financing
  • Aug 2018
    Series Unknown • $1.1M
  • Aug 2012
    Series Unknown • $1.2M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
114.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$48.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.7%
Direct
49.9%
Referral
6.5%
Social
3.1%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~724

Recent News

Prophet logo

Paid Search Specialist

Prophet · Atlanta, GA · Hybrid