Responsibilities

• Lead Amazon PPC strategy and manage complex advertising campaigns
• Partner with enterprise clients, solving high-impact challenges and delivering measurable results
• Analyze campaign data to craft insights and action plans that drive growth
• Mentor junior strategists and shape internal best practices
• Stay ahead of industry trends and leverage AI to optimize performance
• Design tools and templates that improve efficiency across the organization
• Restructuring campaigns in Ad Console, pulling the Search Term Report, setting negation thresholds and defending them, and deciding where branded spend is worth it against organic rank
• Own enterprise accounts end to end, including escalations and the fix that stops them recurring

Requirements

• Hands-on management of Amazon Sponsored Products or Sponsored Brands inside Ad Console within the last 12 months.
• Hands-on Google Ads or Microsoft Ads paid search also counts as a route in, though at this level we will expect the Amazon depth to be there
• 8+ years in advertising, 4+ of them in Amazon PPC, with your most recent platform work no more than 18 months old
• At least one named enterprise account you personally owned, with the spend you controlled and a measurable thing you changed about it
• Something you have built that other people adopted - a toolset, template, training module or playbook used beyond your immediate team
• Expert fluency in negation strategy, match types, harvesting rules and Top of Search modifiers, including your own click or spend threshold before you negate
• You lead with ACOS and TACOS unprompted, and you can reason about spend against contribution margin when the inventory is owned
• Real Excel or Sheets analysis - you have built the model, not read someone else's
• You can run a high-stakes enterprise client meeting and own an escalation in front of a stakeholder
• Able to work onsite in San Diego 5 days a week

Preferred

• Agency experience across a large book of business
• Perpetua, Helium 10 or similar tooling
• Walmart Connect, Instacart Ads or other retail media breadth
• Vendor Central depth alongside Seller Central
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business or a related field, or the equivalent in experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage, choose from multiple plans through Anthem Blue Cross
• Dental & vision, including orthodontia and annual exams
• Pet benefits, savings on vet care, products, and services
• Paid Vacation, accrue 120 hours a year, with rollover
• Paid holidays and sick time
• 401(k) with company match, we invest in your future, too
• Relocation support is available for the right candidate