[Hiring] Manager, Paid Search @Dept

Role Description

As a Manager specializing in Paid Search, you drive growth by orchestrating campaigns that exceed client expectations. Your strategic vision and deep understanding of SEM, bid strategies, and client goals enable you to craft tactical roadmaps, dashboards, and compelling presentations that keep stakeholders informed. You effectively prioritize impactful initiatives for error-free delivery and mentor team members to refine their craft. Contributing to agency thought leadership; you help build a thriving team that delivers outstanding results.

• Lead paid search strategy and execution across a portfolio of clients, ensuring performance meets or exceeds efficiency, growth, and budget targets.
• Develop and implement channel-specific optimization and monitoring strategies, leveraging bid management platforms such as SA360 to drive results.
• Own paid search contributions to client roadmaps, testing plans, Qontrol dashboards, and QBRs/FBRs, ensuring alignment with overall account strategy.
• Quantify, prioritize, and execute initiatives with the greatest potential impact on account performance and client objectives.
• Partner closely with Client Partners to deliver clear, strategic paid search recommendations and support client-facing communications.
• Contribute high-quality paid search content to critical client deliverables, including tactical plans and business reviews, meeting all deadlines and QA standards.
• Ensure all paid search work undergoes rigorous QA and is executed accurately, maintaining strong stewardship of client budgets.
• Coach and mentor team members by supporting onboarding, providing account-level context, and developing both technical and strategic paid search capabilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on paid search experience across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and analytics platforms.
• Advanced understanding of paid search strategy across the funnel, including experience with bid management platforms such as SA360.
• Experience managing campaigns across Google Search, Display, and App campaigns, with a strong grasp of full-funnel activation.
• Proven experience designing and analyzing A/B tests to inform optimization and strategy decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze performance, present insights, and make clear optimization recommendations to internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills, with proficiency in Excel for data analysis and performance tracking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience contributing to client-facing presentations and strategic narratives.
• Experience mentoring or managing junior team members, supporting skill development, performance growth, and team engagement.

Requirements

• You will have to communicate with your team members abroad, therefore fluency in English and excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) are a must for this role.
• This opening requires you to be open to work approximately 2-3 times a week from one of our offices located in Villa Crespo or Mar del Plata.

Benefits

• We enjoy spending time together, working closely with other local colleagues, and getting to know one another. Our Buenos Aires offices (Villa Crespo or Mar del Plata) are fully equipped with refreshments and great common spaces!
• Premium healthcare through OSDE for the employee and their immediate family members.
• Prepaid card with a monthly allowance for grocery purchases.
• Monthly reimbursements for Wi-Fi/electricity expenses.
• Monthly reimbursements for training/English classes.
• 100% covered "Plan Total" membership at Sportclub.
• A flexible vacation policy.