About The Role
We are looking for a strong, passionate, and energetic Paid Search professional to drive growth and strategic oversight across the paid search department with a focus of working on our largest accounts.
We are looking for someone passionate about search-driven performance marketing and well-versed in other digital acquisition channels.
This individual should be a people-focused leader who enjoys hands-on, cross-functional collaboration and wants to join a fast-growing, innovative digital agency that is hyper-focused on client performance and ROI.
Responsibilities
- Serve as Paid Search Lead on 2 of the larger search accounts in the agency, delivering strategy and hands-on optimizations with other Paid Search and channel team members
- Present Paid Search strategy, performance and tactical priorities to client stakeholders
- Partner with cross-channel leads on creating a holistic media plan inclusive of forecasting, testing, tactical plans, and reporting
- Drive Paid Search strategy, innovation & testing on your book of business while improving performance, developing quarterly or annual roadmaps to keep advance accounts with latest trends and opportunities
- Opportunity to manage others from Account Managers to Associate Directors
- Manage your team in advanced SEM skills, multi-channel digital marketing strategy, and client management skills including projections, analytics reporting, etc.
- Deliver feedback, performance reviews, support and recognition in pursuit of achieving team goals
- Serve as a senior sponsor on your team’s accounts developing senior client relationships and guiding holistic digital strategy
- Willingness to join in-person team meetings, events, and client presentations as business needs arise, est. 1-2 times per quarter
- Work closely with Google, Bing, and other vendor partners on alpha and beta opportunities, expansion opportunities, client strategy and planning, and best practices
- Contribute to overall department training, POVs, award submissions, and case studies
- Potential opportunities to participate in new business pitches for the agency for Paid Search
About You
- 4.5+ years of Paid Search experience
- Past experience handling direct management of Paid Search budgets of at least $500,000 in monthly ad spend
- Experience directing strategy in e-commerce/retail clients
- Bonus for those with experience managing multiple lines of business
- Preferred experience in apparel, home/housewares, CPG, and beauty
- Experience in YouTube, App Campaigns, Performance Max, Demand Gen, and GDN outside of traditional search and shopping
- Advanced slide presentation making and Excel / Google sheet skills
- Experience presenting paid search strategy to marketing executives, large teams, and senior audiences (VP+)
- Have 3+ years of management experience with at least two direct reports
- Experience with a bid management platform is preferred such as SA360, Skai, Marin, etc.
- 4-year college degree or equivalent work experience
Benefits
What We Offer
- Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
- Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
- 401k with company contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
- Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
- A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
- Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth.
Salary Range
$97,000—$118,000 USD
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc.
With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world.
Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services.
It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24).
In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow.
Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects.
Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
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