Senior Paid Search Specialist

About G2 - The Company

G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. When you join G2, you’re joining the industry’s leading team that helps businesses reach their peak potential by powering decisions and strategies with trusted insights from real software users.

Now, we have joined forces with Capterra, Software Advice, and Get App to create the largest source of online data and software insights to fuel intelligent buying in the age of AI. With 200M+ combined annual visitors and 6M verified reviews, we are now the centralized place to enable software buyers to make better and faster decisions with confidence.

And we are just getting started! We are setting out to transform the global B2B software industry and become the most trusted data foundation for buyers and sellers of software for the age of AI.

Does that sound exciting to you? Come join us as we try to reach our next PEAK!

At G2, everything we are and what we do is grounded in our PEAK values— (Performance + Entrepreneurship + Authenticity + Kindness). Working at G2 means you are part of a value-driven, growing global community that climbs PEAKs together. We cheer for each other’s successes, learn from our mistakes, and support and lean on one another during challenging times. With ambition and entrepreneurial spirit we push each other to take on challenging work, which will help us all to grow and learn.

You will be part of a global, diverse team of smart, dedicated, and kind individuals - each with unique talents, aspirations, and life experiences. At the heart of our community and culture are our people-led ERGs, which celebrate and highlight the diverse identities of our global team. As an organization, we are intentional about our DEI and philanthropic work (like our G2 Gives program) because it encourages us all to be better people.

G2 is looking for a world-class Paid Search marketer to join our growing, high performing Performance Marketing team. This is a great opportunity to expand your skill set and take on new challenges across the digital landscape, including day-to-day management of paid search campaigns (in platform) and key projects for the G2 Digital Markets web properties (Capterra, Get App and Software Advice).

This role will report to the Manager, Paid Search.

Location: We prefer candidates based in Austin, TX and able to work hybrid (2 days/week in office), but are open to US-based remote candidates for the right fit.

• Day to day performance. First and foremost, this role will be focused on driving revenue with a great ROAS via our paid search channel, across Google and Bing, including optimizations around bidding, creative and audiences.

• Build & optimize paid search campaigns. Within your first few weeks you’ll be responsible for managing several high budget key accounts.

• Paid Search Subject Matter Expert:
  You will be leveraged as the Paid Search subject matter expert and you will be one of the main experts about all things Paid Search.

• Data driven decision making. Leverage in-house reporting systems and analytical tools to become a master of data driven analysis and optimizations and improve campaign performance.

• Global collaboration. You will collaborate globally with our teams in the US and in Europe to report the performance, results, and trends of the Paid Search campaigns on a regular basis.

• 70% → Campaign strategy, planning, execution and optimization:
  Create, test, iterate and optimize the Paid Search campaigns in Google and Bing.

• 10% → Reporting and communicating:
  Report and present the performance (Results & data driven reasons) of your campaigns, your action plans, roadmap and your forecast to the leadership and other team members.

• 10% → Collaborating:
  Engage with diverse internal teams (spanning analytics, creative, marketing ops, and technical departments) to ensure seamless alignment on campaign deliverables and timelines. Build strong relationships with ad platform representatives to stay ahead of industry developments and drive innovation.

• 10% → Focus time for…