Senior Associate, Commerce & Retail Media

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $80K/yrSenior Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own ongoing optimization and campaign execution for ecommerce across paid search and retail media, turning data into action while coordinating with client teams and meetings.

  • Campaign Ownership: daily budget and bid management, performance revisions, and reporting to hit KPI goals.
  • Channel & Collaboration: plan retail media builds, pacing, and cross‑team insights with client stakeholders.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage ongoing optimization efforts to meet campaign goals, including daily management of campaign budgets, bid management, reporting, keyword and targeting strategies, and campaign revisions based on performance history and our client's goals.
  • Plan and execute retail media campaigns, including account setup, campaign builds, daily optimization, bid strategy development and managed and budget pacing.
  • Interpret performance reports to provide actionable insights and analysis
  • Ensure campaigns are run to agreed upon best practice guidelines
  • Assist and attend weekly calls and meetings
  • Collaborate across our client team and channels

Requirements

  • At least 2 years digital performance marketing experience in ecommerce / retail search, paid search, PPC, paid social, programmatic, or related field or 3+ years managing large-scale, complex ecommerce campaigns.
  • Experience managing budgets, meeting KPIs and informing KPI goals
  • SaaS platform (i.e. PacVue, Skai, etc.) and bid management platform experience strongly preferred
  • Strong excel skills and analytical mindset, with the ability to identify trends and insights through data analysis
  • Strong personal organizational, communication and prioritization skills with a strong attention to detail.
  • Enthusiasm for performance marketing, new platforms and the exciting world of eCommerce and emerging platforms
  • Well-honed communication skills and working with agility in the rapidly evolving world of Commerce & Retail Media
  • High levels of integrity, autonomy and self-motivation

Preferred

  • Prior experience with PacVue, Skai or similar SaaS platforms is a nice-to-have.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
  • Life insurance,
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
  • 401k,
  • Flexible paid time off,
  • At least 15 paid holidays per year,
  • Paid sick and safe leave, and
  • Paid parental leave.
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