Paid Search Manager

We're recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing European marketplace platform for a Paid Search Manager to own their Google & Bing activities across German marketplace products — including a significant seven-figure annual budget.

• Full ownership of paid search performance in Germany: forecasting, budget management, bid strategy, account structure, creatives, and landing page testing
• Take over and scale a substantial, established budget with a mature account structure — this is a role for someone comfortable operating at scale from day one
• Manage and scale Vehicle Ads & Shopping activities, including feed strategy
• Set channel strategy — what to test, scale, or cut — and report to leadership
• Drive automation:
  Smart Bidding, value-based bidding, PMax, audience layering, scripts
• Oversee budget allocation across paid social, display & video
• Manage partner relationships with Google, Microsoft & others

• Fluent German (C1+) and strong professional English
• Proven experience managing large-scale PPC budgets (7-figures+) with full autonomy over spend decisions
• Solid PPC experience with independent decision-making, ideally in a transaction-heavy environment
• Proven success managing Vehicle Ads or Google Shopping — not just surface-level usage
• Value-based bidding experience — implemented, debugged, and optimized
• Strong grasp of PPC automation:
  Smart Bidding, PMax, audience signals, scripts
• Self-starter mindset and strong communication skills for non-technical stakeholders

• Feed tools (Channable, Productsup, Data Feed Watch )
• Google/Microsoft Ads API experience
• automotive/marketplace background
• practical AI use in paid search

• Competitive salary + share options
• generous vacation days
• workcation options
• hybrid working with equipment budget
• pension subsidies
• latest tech