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The Search Agency is a full-service destination for data-driven and creative digital marketers looking to work with smart people, service clients, experience career growth, learn and teach the latest digital marketing optimizations, and have fun. As a part of our team, you will work closely with industry-leading companies and thought leaders in the digital community.
Whether you’re a seasoned Digital Marketing veteran or a recent college graduate, you could be a great fit in one of our growing offices. You’ll be working with a rapidly growing group of smart, dedicated, creative, and energetic people in a casual and upbeat setting.
We prefer the direct approach: Check out our job openings, and if you are interested (or just want to say hello), email your resume/cover letter directly to our head of Talent Acquisition, Andy Lucas: andy.lucas@thesearchagency.com. Be sure to let him know which role you’re most interested in, and (just for fun) the typical interview question you hate the most.
We look forward to hearing from you
- Account Director, Paid Search - Baltimore, MD
- Campaign Manager, Paid Search - Baltimore, MD
- Specialist - Paid Social & Display Media Glendale, CA
- Campaign Manager - Paid Social/Programmatic Media Glendale, CA
- Specialist - Search Marketing; Glendale, CA
Account Directors in The Search Agency’s Baltimore office are leaders and doers. They help build and lead the team focused on managing search, display, and paid social campaigns on behalf of The Search Agency’s clients, and they are responsible for the day-to-day management of a small number of brand name accounts; building strong relationships with them.
Our perfect candidate will have a solid foundation in paid media tactics and strategies, and excel in client service. On a daily basis, you will leverage your extensive paid search industry knowledge, work with the team to create, manage, and optimize online campaigns, and interact regularly with clients to provide ongoing reporting, analysis, and ad optimization. Our ideal candidate will be a capable project manager and passionate about digital marketing and data optimization.
You will:
- Mentor a team of account managers, analysts and content editors to execute on campaign objectives for clients
- Serve as team expert for search engine marketing, The Search Agency’s tools and technology, account management, editorial processes, and analytics
- Manage a book of business consisting of assigned clients’ online search marketing campaigns.
- Create and implement custom search marketing solutions for assigned clients
- Responsible for analyzing, recommending, and implementing improvements to meet client online search marketing ROI/CPA objectives
- Understand and manage client media-buying cycles, product/service update schedules, online marketing philosophy and goals, target demographics, etc.
- Produce detailed campaign performance analysis and presentations
- Act as the client champion and agency representative to the search engines and ensure optimal campaign implementation
- Interviewing, hiring, and training of new hires, giving critical feedback that is warm, honest, and inspiring.
- Represent team on cross-functional projects
- Responsible for special projects as assigned
You should have:
- 6-8 years’ experience running paid search campaigns
- Proven technical understanding of Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
- Proven ability to service clients in a digital environment
- Adept at managing client expectations as it relates to scope and delivery of service
- Strong project management skills and attention to detail
- Proven ability to set team priorities and collaborate with other departments to deliver services
- Good energy. Superior oral, written, and interpersonal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to represent and promote TSA in a professional manner
- Must be open to travel as needed
- Proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Bachelor’s Degree – or equivalent work experience – is required.
About Our Benefits:
All employees in our Baltimore office receive full medical, dental, and vision care, along with equity opportunities and the option to contribute to a 401k. We have a fun, casual office culture, in an open environment with plenty of snacks.
About Us:
We are a top-tier online marketing firm, offering internet advertisers a full-service solution for their performance marketing campaigns. As a part of our team, you will be working closely with industry-leading companies and thought leaders in the online space. You’ll be joining a rapidly growing group of smart, dedicated, creative, and energetic people in a casual and upbeat setting.
The Search Agency, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
This position is not currently available for sponsorship or 3rd-party candidates.
The Campaign Managers on our Paid Search team are responsible for the day-to-day management of a small number of brand name accounts and building strong relationships with them. They leverage their paid search/display industry knowledge, work with the team to create, manage, and optimize online paid search campaigns and interact regularly with clients to provide ongoing reporting, analysis, and ad optimization.
This position requires a candidate who has a solid foundation in paid search tactics and strategies, and who excels in client service. Our ideal candidate will be a capable project manager and passionate about online marketing. The role requires a strong eye for detail, analytical skills, and the ability to make decisions independently.
You will:
- Manage a book of business and ensure all goals and deadlines are met
- Provide best-in-class SEM and Display deliverables and regularly communicate performance results.
- Find opportunities for the growth of accounts
- Analyze, recommend, and implement improvements to meet client’s online marketing objectives
- Identify ideas/solutions to meet client’s strategic objectives
- Develop/Partner with team members to develop strategic campaign structures and unique search campaigns
- Adopt high quality account management and channel best practices
You should have:
- 3-6 years’ experience running paid search campaigns
- Proven technical understanding of Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
- Experience working with a paid search bidding and optimization platform
- Strong analytics experience, including familiarity with an online analytics platform
- Adept at managing client expectations as it relates to scope and delivery of service
- Strong project management skills and attention to detail
- Proven ability to set team priorities and collaborate with other departments to deliver services
- Good energy. Superior oral, written, and interpersonal communication and presentation skills
- Must be open to travel as needed
- Proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Bachelor’s Degree – or equivalent work experience – is required.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience with AdWords Editor and UI, as well as Bing UI and desktop tool
- Experience with DoubleClick Search or DFA
- Familiarity with Google Analytics, Omniture, or another analytics platform
About Us:
We are a top-tier online marketing firm, offering internet advertisers a full-service solution for their performance marketing campaigns. As a part of our team, you will be working closely with industry-leading companies and thought leaders in the online space. You’ll be joining a rapidly growing group of smart, dedicated, creative, and energetic people in a casual and upbeat setting.
About Our Benefits:
All employees in our Baltimore office receive full medical, dental, and vision care, along with equity opportunities and the option to contribute to a 401k. We have a fun, casual office culture, in an open environment with plenty of snacks.
Specialist, Paid Social & Display Media – Glendale, CA
Are you passionate about online marketing? Are you geeky in the best possible way, always on top of the latest and greatest trends in media and technology? Are you a self-starter, with a mind for numbers?
The Search Agency is looking for a Coordinator to become part of our Display/Programmatic Media team. This position requires you to be highly resourceful, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. We’re looking for people who want to start – or extend – their career in digital marketing.
You will
- Use internal workflow systems to communicate between Account Managers and Delivery Teams to facilitate ad campaign management
- Support Campaign Managers by coordinating with clients and media partners to obtain all necessary campaign assets and ensure successful campaign set up and launch
- Monitor ad delivery across various platforms and suggest performance optimizations for campaigns according to campaign KPIs
- Review performance reports in MS Excel, QA formulas and raw data, and pull insights to share with the client about recent changes in performance that relate directly to changes in bids, scheduling, creative assets, advertiser promotions, seasonality, landing pages, etc.
- Coordinate with Campaign Managers to ensure accurate and appropriate budget management, including ad schedules and bid adjustments
- QA creative submissions and troubleshoot issues that may occur while the campaigns are in progress, or prior to launch
- Brainstorm creative concept ideas based on best practices for new ad tests, including images, copy, call-to-action, and landing page
- Use DoubleClick platforms (Campaign Manager and Bid Manager) to build, traffic, and optimize digital media campaigns for a variety of advertisers (retail, real estate, B2B, finance, etc.)
- Support product team evolution through brainstorm sessions, process documentation, and execution
You should have:
- Be able to prioritize and multitask, while completing objectives in a timely fashion
- Enjoy working independently as well as part of a collaborative team
- Be passionate about digital marketing and strive to learn new technologies and keep up with industry trends;
- Enjoy a challenge, and continually look for a better or more effective way to get things done.
- Be flexible and able to set different priorities between groups and adapt those priorities as timelines and requirements change
- Have a positive and out-going personality, with the professional demeanor (maturity, integrity, self-discipline) and ability to relate well with team members.
- Be Analytical: A clear thinker who can recognize critical issues and focus attention accordingly.
- Be A Self-starter: Very high work rate – able to ‘get things done’ without constant input and support. Works well both independently and collaboratively.
- Exhibit exceptional interpersonal communication skills (both written and verbal). This includes client communication as well as internal communication via email, chat, phone, and in meetings.
- Have some basic experience with HTML.
About Us:
We are a top-tier online marketing firm, offering internet advertisers a full-service solution for their performance marketing campaigns. As a part of our team, you will be working closely with industry-leading companies and thought leaders in the online space. You’ll be joining a rapidly growing group of smart, dedicated, creative, and energetic people in a casual and upbeat setting.
About our Benefits:
Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? We get them twice a week! You’ll also get a flexible work schedule and the option to work from home every Friday (yes, you read that right). All employees receive full medical, dental, and vision care, along with equity opportunities and the option to contribute to a 401k. We have a fun, casual office culture, with “alternative work spaces,” a zen meditation room, and a kitchen fully-stocked for breakfast and mid-day snacks. We even have a championship softball team!
The Search Agency, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
This position is not currently available for sponsorship or 3rd-party candidates.
Campaign Manager, Paid Social / Programmatic Media – Glendale, CA
The Search Agency is looking for a Manager of Paid Social Campaigns to join its growing Display/Programmatic media team. Our perfect candidate will be an enthusiastic, pro-active, detail-oriented, and hardworking professional and have extensive experience with social ad buying, along with client-facing experience monitoring and reporting on paid advertising campaigns.
You will:
- Plan and manage campaigns on social platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Snapchat, working within the native tools on each platform to execute and optimize campaigns.
- Determine set-up, including: testing methodologies, reporting requirements, and optimization requirements, ensuring full impact and efficiency of each campaign.
- Combine data analysis and client feedback to configure, operate and optimize campaigns to meet client objectives.
- Advise on paid social content calendars to guide marketing partners on their paid social strategy.
- Leverage research tools and resources to plan campaign tactics that adhere to client goals and target audience. Research industry benchmarks by platform and client vertical.
- As necessary, build campaigns and ad sets within DoubleClick to traffic ad campaigns across multiple platforms. QA the campaign builds and initial data to ensure successful launch.
- Optimize Display campaigns to meet and/or exceed advertiser goals through copy changes, bid adjustments, and placement testing.
- Brainstorm creative concept ideas and targeting tactics based on best practices for new ad tests
- Communicate weekly progress on all client campaigns and provide insights that highlight the story behind the data.
- Collaborate with Earned Media teams to run Paid Social strategies alongside organic social strategies and content
You should have:
- 1-2 years of experience in social buying, paid media execution, and optimization.
- Knowledge of paid social landscape, including optimization techniques and strategies, bidding models, and ad units across variety of social platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, etc.)
- Experience using Facebook Ads Manager, Twitter Ads Dashboard, Google Adwords, and other major social buying platforms
- Knowledge of web analytics, social analytics and techniques, particularly KPI’s on Facebook and Twitter
- Strong Interest in digital media platforms and technologies, with a desire to keep informed about new trends.
- We’re looking for someone who is passionate about digital marketing and data optimization. You should be always looking for a more-effective or efficient way to get things done.
- Excellent time management and organization skills. Able to set priorities for various tasks, and adapt to those priorities as needed.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, including pivot tables, VLookup formulas, etc.
- Experience with DoubleClick platforms (DFA, DCM, DDM, DBM, DS) preferred.
- Experience with GA reporting tools a plus.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Analytical thinker who can recognize critical issues and focus attention accordingly.
- A self-starter with a very high work rate—able to get things done without constant input and support. Works well both independently and collaboratively. Enjoys a challenge!
- Positive and outgoing personality, with the professional demeanor and ability to relate well with team members, upper management, clients, and media partners. Impeccable character and high ethical standards.
About Us:
We are a top-tier online marketing firm, offering internet advertisers a full-service solution for their performance marketing campaigns. As a part of our team, you will be working closely with industry-leading companies and thought leaders in the online space. You’ll be joining a rapidly growing group of smart, dedicated, creative, and energetic people in a casual and upbeat setting.
About our Benefits:
Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? We get them twice a week! You’ll also get a flexible work schedule and the option to work from home every Friday (yes, you read that right). All employees receive full medical, dental, and vision care, along with equity opportunities and the option to contribute to a 401k. We have a fun, casual office culture, with “alternative work spaces,” a zen meditation room, and a kitchen fully-stocked for breakfast and mid-day snacks. We even have a championship softball team!
The Search Agency, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
This position is not currently available for sponsorship or 3rd-party candidates.
Our Paid Search Specialists are an important member of a team focused on managing and developing search campaigns on behalf of The Search Agency’s clients. Working closely with Account Managers, this position requires someone with a solid foundation in paid-search tactics and strategies, and who excels in client service and analytics. The successful candidate will be a capable project manager and passionate about online marketing, with a strong eye for detail, and the ability to make decisions independently.
You will:
- Serve as team expert for Search Engine Marketing (SEM). The Search Agency’s tools and technology, account management, and analytics.
- Manage a book of business consisting of assigned clients’ online search marketing campaigns
- Be responsible for maintaining work integrity and accuracy
- Analyze, recommend, and implement improvements to meet client online search marketing ROI/CPA objectives
- Understand and manage client media-buying cycles, product/service update schedules, online marketing philosophy and goals, and target demographics
- Produce detailed campaign performance analysis and PowerPoint presentations
- Create, test, and optimize keywords and messaging to maximize reach, awareness, and new customer acquisition
- Build relevant account structures to ensure relevant ad copy appears on relevant queries
You should have:
- 3-5 years of online marketing experience focused on paid search
- At least 2 years working in a fast-paced, quality-focused environment
- Highly developed interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, or a related field
- Strong MS Office skills, particularly Excel
- Experience working with a paid search bidding and optimization platform
- Strong analytics experience, including familiarity with an online analytics platform
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- The ability to function equally well independently as well as part of a team, and the flexibility to adapt to an ever-changing environment
- Professional demeanor
- Passion for marketing and the internet.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience with AdWords Editor and UI, as well as Bing UI and desktop tool
- Problem Identifier and solver
- Experience with DoubleClick Search or DFA
- Familiarity with Google Analytics, Omniture, or another analytics platform
About us:
We are a top-tier online marketing firm, offering internet advertisers a full-service solution for their performance marketing campaigns. As a part of our team, you will be working closely with industry-leading companies and thought leaders in the online space. You’ll be joining a rapidly growing group of smart, dedicated, creative, and energetic people in a casual and upbeat setting.
About our Benefits:
Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? We get them twice a week! You’ll also get a flexible work schedule and the option to work from home every Friday (yes, you read that right). All employees receive full medical, dental, and vision care, along with equity opportunities and the option to contribute to a 401k. We have a fun, casual office culture, with “alternative work spaces,” a zen meditation room, and a kitchen fully-stocked for breakfast and mid-day snacks. We even have a championship softball team!
The Search Agency, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
This position is not currently available for sponsorship or 3rd-party candidates.
