Responsibilities

• Own performance and client relationships across your portfolio, meeting targets and delivering clear, data-grounded narratives
• Set the overall strategy for paid search and generative AI search (including Performance Max, AI-powered Smart Bidding, and emerging gen AI ad surfaces), across multiple clients
• Define and enforce best practices across the team, including testing frameworks, QA standards, and knowledge-sharing processes
• Manage, develop, and hire direct reports; own the professional development of the full search team under you
• Act as executive escalation point for client issues, coordinating resolution across disciplines
• Translate client business objectives into search strategies, and connect search activity to broader channel plans
• Oversee day-to-day management of advertising spend across paid search
• Advise clients and internal teams on how machine learning, automation, and generative AI tools can improve search performance
• Build and present media plans, performance reports, and strategic recommendations to client leadership
• Build and grow search practice with an eye to the future, which may include changes in Search and AI landscape, evolution of overall paid media landscape, and other cross channel knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• A degree from a well-regarded college or university
• 8+ years of hands-on experience managing paid search strategy and execution in a digital agency or comparable environment
• Demonstrated experience managing gen AI-powered search campaigns, including Performance Max, Responsive Search Ads, Smart Bidding and emerging generative ad formats across Google and Microsoft
• Working knowledge of SEO, including technical SEO, content strategy, and the intersection of organic and paid search
• Experience managing and growing a team of at least 4-6 people
• Track record managing clients directly at a senior level
• Experience in translating goals to KPIs
• Ability to think creatively and question conventional platform or channel approaches when the situation calls for it.

Preferred

• Experience working with data scientists or technical teams on measurement and optimization problems is a plus
• Experience with search audience strategies, keyword architecture, and budget scaling across verticals

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off
• 401k with company matching and no vesting period
• Annual bonuses
• Generous medical plan
• Paid parental leave