Senior Paid Search Manager (SEM)
$145,000–$175,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Own paid search strategy, execution, pacing, and optimization end to end, including auditing the account, building campaign structures across brand and event categories, and managing bids and budgets multiple times daily. Conduct relentless testing of AI Max and Smart Bidding approaches alongside search-term mining, negative-keyword hygiene, and Quality Score diagnostics. Develop advanced bidding frameworks like tCPA and tROAS, while building or co-building AI and automation tooling for auditing, bid optimization, and reporting. Protect measurement integrity through enhanced conversions and run incrementality testing to calibrate targets and attribution. Optimize against CAC, CPA, and ROAS while partnering with Engineering, Data, and Creative to refine landing pages and message matches.
Required Qualifications
- 5 to 8 years in paid search or performance marketing
- Deep tactical mastery of Google Ads
- Demonstrated use of AI at a software level
- Advanced bidding fluency (tCPA, tROAS, value-based)
- Budget management against CAC, CPA, ROAS, and LTV
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Query-level analysis
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or the sciences
Desired Qualifications
- Microsoft Advertising
- SQL
- BI tools
- Broader paid-acquisition experience (paid social, app install)
- Experience with Search Ads 360 or third-party PPC tooling
- Sports, entertainment, and/or two-sided marketplace experience
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