Senior Paid Search Manager - Part Time, Competitive Hourly Rate

Madison, WI (Remote)

$50/hr – $90/hrSenior Level5+ years expPart time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid search initiatives for tour/experience clients, focusing on discovery, optimization, and revenue growth.

  • Must-have: 5+ years in hands-on paid search management (Google Ads & Microsoft Ads).
  • Standout: B2C focus or tours/activities domain experience with strong reporting skills.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Help our clients be discovered, so they can reach their business goals.
  • Manage day-to-day campaign trafficking, pacing, and optimization, ensuring best-practice account structure and performance efficiency.
  • Identify new opportunities to help clients accomplish their goals and drive incremental revenue.
  • Audit existing search ad accounts and identity opportunities.
  • Manage ad spend, campaign objectives, targeting, and campaign timelines.
  • Report on current status of accounts, successes, and key learnings.
  • Organize hypotheses and recommendations, and be comfortable sharing with internal team members and clients.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience managing paid search campaigns, primarily on Google Ads and Microsoft Ads within a B2C environment.
  • Deep understanding of budgeting, campaign structure, audience strategy, bidding methodologies, and testing frameworks.
  • Strong analytical and reporting skills, with proficiency in Google Workspace tools (Sheets, Slides, Docs).
  • Good organizational skills. We use ClickUp for project management.
  • Ability to join client calls when required.
  • Must be based in the U.S.

Preferred

  • Experience using and finding data inside of Google Analytics 4
  • Experience working with paid social advertising experts
  • Working knowledge of complementary channels including organic social, paid social, and SEO, and how they integrate with paid social strategies.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools to automate or streamline repetitive workflows.
  • Experience managing paid search campaigns for tours, activities, or attractions.

Benefits

  • Fully Remote, Hybrid, or In Person: You have the option to work out of our Madison, WI office as much or as little as you like. About half our team is based in the Madison area. The rest of the team is scattered throughout the US.
  • A Great Team and Culture: We are a team of 16 full-time team members with a few contractors thrown in the mix—all nice, smart, passionate people—that has a track record for creating wins.
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Blend Travel Marketing

We’re a full-service marketing agency passionate about helping tour & activity businesses grow. We work closely with business owners and leadership to align strategy, branding, and marketing in order to foster growth and profitability. We partner with companies with $2m-$20m in annual revenue.

Founded in 1997
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
24 employees (13 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$162
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.5%
Direct
57.8%
Referral
7.5%
Social
8.5%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~24

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (33% of company)