Paid Search Supervisor

MissionOne 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 independent media partner offering transparency, integration, and a relentless focus on business impact.

This is a full-time position for a Supervisor, Paid Search at BarkleyOKRP.  In 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.

Qualities

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

• Curiosity and Skepticism:  You are always asking, “WHY?” You have an internal drive to learn more and expand your knowledge. You consider situations from multiple perspectives.  

• 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. 

Responsibilities:

• Paid Search Management in Google & Bing Platforms as well as through our proprietary tool: Deep Search.

• Performance Management: The Account Supervisor independently owns managing to budgets and campaign targets to achieve or exceed client goals across all of their accounts. Exhibit full mastery of performance management, with ability to execute across different verticals and different goal types. Proactively creates target management solutions and tracking solutions to improve performance across all clients. 

• Campaign Structure: Stewardship over campaign structure, proactively auditing, implementing, and evangelizing best practices. Across all accounts, ensures campaigns are set up properly to appropriately spend and perform, including targeting, ads, and scheduling. Proactively recommends how to enhance campaign performance/account structure. Is a resource across the team for best practices and performance insights.

• Reporting & Analysis: Independently owns and proactively builds upon regular and ad hoc client-facing reporting in Deep Search, Google Ads, Microsoft. Expertly recognize and communicate performance trends and to connect the dots between performance trends and campaign management. Leads diagnosing account issues and steps needed to improve performance, as well as serves as a resource others can turn to. Able to dig into niche performance questions, pulling together data from multiple sources and telling a coherent performance story for the client.

• Strategy & Innovation: Leads strategic planning for entire account(s) and has full command of account’s marketing program and how the Paid Search strategy fits into it. Proactively coordinates with team on testing roadmaps and plans. Owns the why behind account and campaign setup. Proactively explores and investigates additional strategies that will help enhance the client's performance. Leads testing planning, execution, and reporting.

• Communication & Storytelling: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, serving as the primary point of contact for all paid search-related inquiries and updates. Invested in industry trends and creates recommendations around those trends for the client. Leads client calls and owns the day-to-day relationship with professionalism and enthusiasm. Ensure consistent and thorough follow-ups from client requests and post-client meetings. Ensures client emails are answered in a timely manner.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years in a fast-paced agency, media, or marketing environment, hands-on experience building and managing paid search campaigns.

• Google Ads & Bing Ads proficiency

• 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.)

• Google AdWords proficiency

• Experience managing data feeds and shopping campaigns.

Position Status:  Exempt

Years of Experience: 3+ Years

Reports To: Supervisor/Director

Leadership Responsibilities: Does not supervise the work of others/Supervises

Advancement Indicators:

• Clearly and concisely communicates with partners and clients

• Mastered negotiation and optimization

• Ability to extract key insights from data

• Has begun coaching other partners and established a management foundation

• Very minimal oversight needed to handle client work.