Director, Paid Search

We are looking for a strong, passionate, and energetic Search Engine Marketer to drive growth and strategic oversight across the paid search department with a focus of working on our largest accounts. Responsibilities: • Participate and lead new business pitches for Paid Search and / or Shopping • Serve as Paid Search Lead on one or more 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. • 6+ years Paid Search experience • Past experience handling direct management of Paid Search budgets of at least $1MM+ in monthly ad spend • Experience directing strategy in D2C or Retail, B2B, and B2C digital advertising efforts across different verticals is a major plus • Possess a strong POV on the future of search and the role of AI/automation across SEM / shopping • Experience in You Tube, App Campaigns, Performance Max, Discovery / 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 • 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. Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media. Monks: