Senior Paid Search Manager
- Role
- Marketing
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
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No BS summary
Senior paid search lead running 2-3 major client accounts and managing a small team. Requires 5+ years hands-on Google Ads (agency background) and proven people leadership. Must be comfortable building with AI (Claude, automation) — the role is explicitly AI-first.
Core skills
Required skills
Optional skills
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Senior Paid Search Manager you run 2 to 3 client accounts that need significant oversight, and you manage the people running the rest.
A large part of this job now runs through AI, and that has changed what the role spends its time on. If that's not how you want to work, this won't be the right fit.
We're a small, growing team. Your responsibilities will grow and change with the company and you'll have an enormous impact on the business.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
YOUR ACCOUNTS
- Run 2 to 3 client accounts that need significant oversight, across Google Ads (Search, PMax, Demand Gen, YouTube, Shopping) and Microsoft Ads.
- Set the strategy, and own the bidding and account structure calls.
- Run budget pacing off a forecast you built, and say where the month lands before the client asks.
- Write the weekly client report, and the story that goes with the numbers.
YOUR TEAM
- Manage a few Paid Search Managers. Weekly 1:1s, growth plans, and honest reviews.
- Review work before it reaches a client. You own the quality bar across the team's accounts, not only your own.
- Sit in hiring loops.
- Step onto an account yourself when one is off track.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
- Write for our blog, and build out the paid search playbooks the rest of the team works from.
- Track what's changing across the platforms, and say what it means for our accounts before a client asks.
- Run internal sessions and webinars on the things you know best.
AI AND TOOLING (THIS PART IS NOT OPTIONAL)
- Run reporting and analysis through Claude using our skills and MCP connectors.
- Build skills and workflows the whole team uses, not only your own.
- Judge AI output critically, and hold the team to the same standard.
NEW BUSINESS AND MEASUREMENT
- Lead audits for prospects, and present them in pitches.
- Reconcile platform numbers against attribution tools and the client's own reporting.
- Catch tracking problems before they show up in a report.
ABOUT YOU
- 5+ years hands-on in Google Ads, including time at an agency. Microsoft Ads experience is a plus.
- You've managed people, or you've been the person others came to and you're ready to make it official.
- Deep on SEM fundamentals, with opinions you can defend using data.
- Familiarity with GA4, GTM, and conversion tracking setups.
- You've built with AI, not only prompted it. A workflow automation, a reporting tool, a script that took a manual step out of your week.
- Comfortable in spreadsheets: pacing models, pivot tables, audit sheets.
- You write and speak clearly for a specific reader, and you can hold a room with a founder or an exec.
- Proactive by default. You raise things before anyone asks, and you take ownership of performance outcomes.
- Bonus: Shopping feeds, YouTube, cross-channel context (Meta, TikTok), or hands-on tracking implementation.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND HERE
- Competitive salary with bonus structure
- 99% coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Distributed, remote, and global culture
- Unlimited vacation with 3 weeks required vacation
- Unlimited mental health or physical health leave
- Remote work budget to make it easier to work from wherever you feel most productive!
- Monthly physical activity budget to get your body moving
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Stipend for laptop and other home office equipment
- Indoor plant budget
- Annual company-wide retreat
- Yearly stipend for books, seminars, courses, and coaches
- Matching for charitable donations
FLOURISHING AT PEARMILL
We get an unreasonable amount of satisfaction out of making the things around us better at their jobs. Clients who arrived wanting a channel fixed and left with a system. People who joined to run ad accounts and left able to build a team that runs global strategy. And most recently, our little AI agents running around our Notion docs and giving us super powers.
We're a fast growing, diverse group of goofy yet dedicated marketers, creatives, engineers, and analysts, running over $500M in ad spend across 15+ platforms. Join us!
What you'll do
- Run 2 to 3 client accounts needing significant oversight across Google Ads (Search, PMax, Demand Gen, YouTube, Shopping) and Microsoft Ads
- Set strategy, own bidding and account structure calls
- Run budget pacing off a forecast, reporting how the month lands before clients ask
- Write weekly client reports and the story behind the numbers
- Manage a few Paid Search Managers: weekly 1:1s, growth plans, honest reviews
- Review work before it reaches clients, owning the quality bar across the team's accounts
- Sit in hiring loops and step onto accounts when off track
- Write for the blog and build paid search playbooks for the team
- Track platform changes and translate implications for accounts before clients ask
- Run internal sessions and webinars on expertise
- Run reporting and analysis through Claude using skills and MCP connectors
- Build AI skills and workflows the whole team uses
- Judge AI output critically and hold team to same standard
- Lead audits for prospects and present them in pitches
- Reconcile platform numbers against attribution tools and client reporting
- Catch tracking problems before they appear in reports
What they require
- 5+ years hands-on in Google Ads, including time at an agency
- People management experience or ready to manage
- Deep SEM fundamentals with opinions defended using data
- Familiarity with GA4, GTM, and conversion tracking setups
- Experience building with AI (workflow automation, reporting tools, scripts)
- Comfortable in spreadsheets (pacing models, pivot tables, audit sheets)
- Clear written and verbal communication for a specific reader, holding a room with a founder or exec
- Proactive by default, raising things before asked, ownership of performance outcomes
Benefits
- Competitive salary with bonus structure
- 99% coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Distributed, remote, and global culture
- Unlimited vacation with 3 weeks required vacation
- Unlimited mental health or physical health leave
- Remote work budget
- Monthly physical activity budget
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Stipend for laptop and other home office equipment
- Indoor plant budget
- Annual company-wide retreat
- Yearly stipend for books, seminars, courses, and coaches
- Matching for charitable donations
Fast growing, diverse group of goofy yet dedicated marketers, creatives, engineers, and analysts, running over $500M in ad spend across 15+ platforms.