Paid Search Specialist

Chicago, IL

$70K/yr – $90K/yrMid Level3+ years exp

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own paid search execution across Google and Microsoft with a data-driven loop that ties campaigns to lead, sales, and brand outcomes.

  • Own and optimize paid search programs across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, including planning, bidding, and budgeting.
  • Collaborate with analytics, creative, and strategy teams to test ad copy, keywords, audiences, and landing pages while reporting learned insights.

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.
  • 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.
  • Location: Austin, Atlanta, or Chicago. Hybrid working model: 3+ full days in office or at client site.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with Performance Max, Demand Gen, AI Max, or other evolving Google Ads campaign types is a plus.

Prophet Brand Strategy

PROPHET BRAND STRATEGY LIMITED is a management consulting company based out of BROCKBOURNE HOUSE 77 MOUNT EPHRAIM, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, United Kingdom.

Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, GBR
1 employees

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$70K/yr – $90K/yr

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Paid Search Specialist

Prophet Brand Strategy · Chicago, IL