Senior Paid Search Specialist

Remote / Kansas City, MO / Chicago, IL / New York, NY / Denver, CO

Mission One Media is a brand within BarkleyOKRP that combines full-funnel media planning and buying services, CRM, data, analytics, retail media, SEO, and digital experiences. We’re an indepen dent media partner offering transparency, integration, and a relentless focus on business impact.

This is a full-time, remote position for a Senior Paid Search Specialist  this role, you will develop strategies and manage the performance of various paid search accounts, to drive client performance and growth. Exceptional communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a remote environment are essential.

Here’s what it takes to be successful in the role:

• Curiosity and Skepticism: You are always asking, “ WHY? ”
• Strategic, Creative Problem-Solving :
  You are analytical and enjoy working with data to derive insights. You use insights and knowledge to develop robust strategies and visions for success. You love coming up with creative solutions to new and old problems alike.
• Initiative :
  You are a gritty self-starter driven to find answers, solve tough problems, and overcome challenges. You proactively bring solutions to challenges.
• Communication & Storytelling: You can easily communicate complex information or nuanced situations. You know what details are necessary and what details to leave behind. You can marry data and storytelling to articulate a compelling vision.
• Adaptability: You can comfortably adjust in evolving or ambiguous situations. You use creativity to tackle new and existing challenges. You’re ready and excited for changes in the media landscape.
• Self-Development: You’re reflective and self-aware. You seek opportunities to learn and develop yourself and others.

• Google Ads & Bing Ads mastery
• Mastery in Excel/Google Sheets, PowerPoint/Google Slides, Microsoft Word/Google Docs
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Proficient with SEM reporting and third party analytics tools (E.g. GA4, Adobe, etc.)
• Certification in Google AdWords (or ability to obtain certification).
• Experience managing data feeds and shopping campaigns.

• Paid Search Management in Google & Bing Platforms as well as through our proprietary tool:
  Deep Search.
• Target & Budget Management: The Sr. Paid Search Specialist independently manages budgets and campaign targets to achieve or exceed client goals, with the ability to pivot and/or make proactive recommendations as client goals shift. Proactively creates target management solutions and tracking to improve performance. Ensures spend and revenue stay in line with goal and proactively communicates with client and team when performance challenges arise.
• Campaign Structure: Stewardship over campaign structure, with ability to evangelize best practices and fluency in testing out new structures. Ensures campaigns are set up properly to appropriately spend and perform, including targeting, ads, and scheduling. Ensures ad copy, extensions, and GMC promos are aligned with appropriate promotions. Conduct thorough keyword research to identify high-performing keywords and negative keywords to optimize campaign performance.
  
  Proactively recommends how to enhance campaign performance/account structure.
• Reporting & Analysis: Independently owns regular and ad hoc client-facing reporting in Deep Search, Google Ads, Microsoft, and other tools as required by client. Strong ability to recognize and communicate performance trends and to connect the dots between performance trends and campaign management. Proactively digs in to performance to inform campaign changes and roots of changes to performance trends. Leads diagnosing account issues and steps needed to improve performance.
  
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