DEPT® · 1 day ago
Director, Paid Search
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company that helps ambitious brands grow faster by operating at the intersection of technology and marketing. The Director of Paid Search will lead a team of paid search experts, ensuring campaign excellence and fostering team growth while driving performance against client goals.
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Responsibilities
Lead paid search team members in daily account management, tactical creation, and implementation, tracking performance against goals, and adherence to deadlines
Accountable to Client Partner(s) in delivering tactical plans that ladder up to overall brand strategy and agreed KPIs
Support client partners in managing client relationships as related to paid search strategy, team, and performance
Ensures effective collaboration of paid search strategy and implementation for flawless execution of search campaign strategy and activation towards client overall goals
Point of escalation for all activation team members within their track- understands when to step in and coach the team on any advanced strategy, optimizations, processes, or next steps to mitigate issues and drive search growth
Oversees their activation team resourcing, consistently updating tracking to ensure utilization numbers are accurate and the team is fully utilized towards targets. Understands when their team is open for bandwidth and ready to take on clients
Identifies succession plans for their team and cultivates talent development for upward mobility and planning for unplanned employee attrition
Works with reps to identify and vet new opportunities, drive the development of channel-specific innovation, thought leadership, best practices & training, and ensure that best practices are implemented regularly
Qualification
Required
A minimum of 8 years' paid search experience (spanning all core Google Ads products) and a minimum 3 years of experience in a client-facing marketing role
Proven prior work experience managing a team of 2+ direct reports / team members and demonstrated ability to mentor and develop direct reports into more senior roles
A deep understanding of Google Ads, and Microsoft Ads
The ability to audit an account and present actionable insights to a client
Experience speaking to growth strategy, SEO, CRO, analytics and measurement with marketing managers and C-Level executives alike
Experience acting as an escalation point for clients, evaluating team services levels and proposing improvements
Benefits
Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
401K plan, plus matching
PTO
Paid Company Holidays
Parental Leave
Company
DEPT®
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2019-12-20Acquired
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