Monks Associates Inc
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About the Role We are looking for a strong, passionate, and energetic Paid Search leader to drive growth and strategic oversight across the paid search department with a focus on working on our largest accounts and serving as an SME on LLM optimization for organic and paid synergy. We are looking for someone passionate about search-driven performance marketing and well-versed in both organic search and paid search. This individual should be a people-focused leader who enjoys hands-on, cross-functional collaboration and wants to join a fast-growing, innovative digital agency that is hyper-focused on client performance and ROI.
Responsibilities
Reporting to our SVP, Head of Search, this role will serve as a people leader inclusive of SEM channel specialists (Paid search, YouTube, Demand Gen, PMax, Shopping, and App) as well as Account Leads managing direct client partnerships, contract negotiations/renewals, client onboards, etc.
This role will serve as a Search thought leader prepared to respond to the changing landscape
The ideal candidate will have recent experience in SEO/GEO or AEO/AIO
Responsible for revenue driven from new business, client relationships, and client growth
Will serve as an escalation point across a set of top clients
Will present Paid Search and organic strategy, performance, and tactical priorities to the client and internal stakeholders
Assists with client staffing and scoping
Participates and leads new business pitches for Paid Search and/or SEO
Partners with cross-channel leads on creating media plans, including forecasting, testing, tactical plans, and reporting
Drives Paid Search strategy, innovation & testing on your book of business while improving performance, developing quarterly or annual roadmaps to keep advancing accounts with the latest trends and opportunities
Present QBRs, planning presentations, and testing plans regularly
Lead client calls from a paid search perspective
Forecasting, budgeting, and diminishing return analysis
Manages others from Account Managers to Directors
Accountable for team growth (training and mentorship) and retention
Highly involved with hiring and onboarding new employees
Manages a team with advanced SEM skills, multi-channel digital marketing strategy, and client management skills, including projections, analytics reporting, etc.
Delivers feedback, performance reviews, support, and recognition in pursuit of achieving team goals
Helps lead career pathing and coaching
Serves as a senior sponsor on your team’s accounts, developing senior client relationships and guiding holistic digital strategy
Responsible for training for the team, department, and agency
Contribute to team morale and culture through engagement, team building, and mentorship
Contribute to overall department training, POVs, award submissions, and case studies
Works closely with Google, Bing, and other vendor partners on alpha and beta opportunities, expansion opportunities, client strategy and planning, and best practices
Responsible for operationalizing processes and helping gain adoption across team focus areas
Assist in creating a team culture across a hybrid working model
About You The Essentials
10+ years Paid Search experience
Experience communicating with senior clients' points of contact from VPs to C-Suite
Experience handling direct management of Paid Search budgets of at least $1MM+ in monthly ad spend
Recent experience optimizing to LLMs across paid and organic search and will have organic and paid search experience
Experience directing strategy in D2C or Retail, B2B, and B2C digital advertising efforts across different verticals is a major plus
Experience in YouTube, Performance Max, Demand Gen, and Value-Based Bidding, understanding of Offline Conversion Data, and CRM integrations with Google Ads a plus
Advanced slide presentation making and Excel / Google sheet skills
Experience presenting paid search strategy to marketing executives, large teams, and senior audiences
Have 5+ years of management experience with at least 3 direct reports at Associate Director level and above
Experience with a bid management platform is preferred such as SA360, Skai, Marin, etc.
4-year college degree or equivalent work experience
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
Salary Range: $160,000—$210,000 USD
What We Offer
Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
401k with company contribution
Paid parental leave
Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth.
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions\' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
Interested? Apply for this job! We are committed to protecting your personal information. As part of our recruitment process, we collect and process personal data to evaluate your application and communicate with you. To understand how we handle your information, including the types of data we collect, how we use it, and your rights, please read our Monks Candidate Privacy Notice. We encourage you to review this notice to ensure you are fully informed about how your data will be managed during your application process.
Monks does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
Thank you!
We have received your application. We will be in touch via email.
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About the Role We are looking for a strong, passionate, and energetic Paid Search leader to drive growth and strategic oversight across the paid search department with a focus on working on our largest accounts and serving as an SME on LLM optimization for organic and paid synergy. We are looking for someone passionate about search-driven performance marketing and well-versed in both organic search and paid search. This individual should be a people-focused leader who enjoys hands-on, cross-functional collaboration and wants to join a fast-growing, innovative digital agency that is hyper-focused on client performance and ROI.
Responsibilities
Reporting to our SVP, Head of Search, this role will serve as a people leader inclusive of SEM channel specialists (Paid search, YouTube, Demand Gen, PMax, Shopping, and App) as well as Account Leads managing direct client partnerships, contract negotiations/renewals, client onboards, etc.
This role will serve as a Search thought leader prepared to respond to the changing landscape
The ideal candidate will have recent experience in SEO/GEO or AEO/AIO
Responsible for revenue driven from new business, client relationships, and client growth
Will serve as an escalation point across a set of top clients
Will present Paid Search and organic strategy, performance, and tactical priorities to the client and internal stakeholders
Assists with client staffing and scoping
Participates and leads new business pitches for Paid Search and/or SEO
Partners with cross-channel leads on creating media plans, including forecasting, testing, tactical plans, and reporting
Drives Paid Search strategy, innovation & testing on your book of business while improving performance, developing quarterly or annual roadmaps to keep advancing accounts with the latest trends and opportunities
Present QBRs, planning presentations, and testing plans regularly
Lead client calls from a paid search perspective
Forecasting, budgeting, and diminishing return analysis
Manages others from Account Managers to Directors
Accountable for team growth (training and mentorship) and retention
Highly involved with hiring and onboarding new employees
Manages a team with advanced SEM skills, multi-channel digital marketing strategy, and client management skills, including projections, analytics reporting, etc.
Delivers feedback, performance reviews, support, and recognition in pursuit of achieving team goals
Helps lead career pathing and coaching
Serves as a senior sponsor on your team’s accounts, developing senior client relationships and guiding holistic digital strategy
Responsible for training for the team, department, and agency
Contribute to team morale and culture through engagement, team building, and mentorship
Contribute to overall department training, POVs, award submissions, and case studies
Works closely with Google, Bing, and other vendor partners on alpha and beta opportunities, expansion opportunities, client strategy and planning, and best practices
Responsible for operationalizing processes and helping gain adoption across team focus areas
Assist in creating a team culture across a hybrid working model
About You The Essentials
10+ years Paid Search experience
Experience communicating with senior clients' points of contact from VPs to C-Suite
Experience handling direct management of Paid Search budgets of at least $1MM+ in monthly ad spend
Recent experience optimizing to LLMs across paid and organic search and will have organic and paid search experience
Experience directing strategy in D2C or Retail, B2B, and B2C digital advertising efforts across different verticals is a major plus
Experience in YouTube, Performance Max, Demand Gen, and Value-Based Bidding, understanding of Offline Conversion Data, and CRM integrations with Google Ads a plus
Advanced slide presentation making and Excel / Google sheet skills
Experience presenting paid search strategy to marketing executives, large teams, and senior audiences
Have 5+ years of management experience with at least 3 direct reports at Associate Director level and above
Experience with a bid management platform is preferred such as SA360, Skai, Marin, etc.
4-year college degree or equivalent work experience
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
Salary Range: $160,000—$210,000 USD
What We Offer
Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
401k with company contribution
Paid parental leave
Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth.
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions\' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
Interested? Apply for this job! We are committed to protecting your personal information. As part of our recruitment process, we collect and process personal data to evaluate your application and communicate with you. To understand how we handle your information, including the types of data we collect, how we use it, and your rights, please read our Monks Candidate Privacy Notice. We encourage you to review this notice to ensure you are fully informed about how your data will be managed during your application process.
Monks does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
Thank you!
We have received your application. We will be in touch via email.
#J-18808-Ljbffr