SENIOR PAID SEARCH BUYERWHAT YOU’LL DO
INNOVATE | You’re willing to learn, and you stay on the frontier of marketing strategy & technology. In an ever-changing digital marketing landscape, you constantly adapt and evolve. As our Sr. PseB, you combine data analysis and feedback from clients to develop strategic plans. You make tactical recommendations for targeting, messaging and optimizing campaigns to meet KPIs. Sr. PseBs confidently tweak and optimize campaign types, keywords, copy, audiences, and buying tactics to create the best possible outcomes for their clients. You test constantly in order to determine the best performing mixture of campaigns. You never stop investigating account performance and constantly adapt strategy based on statistical outcomes in your accounts. When it’s time to pivot you are among the first early adopters. You share early insights, and encourage the team by helping to lead the way.
CREATE | You’re an outside the box thinker. Creative problems take creative solutions. You seek to find the hidden solution in the rough. Using data from previous campaigns to guide your decision-making, you write compelling direct-response advertising copy, building out campaigns in Google Ads, and ensuring all strategic initiatives are built and launched according to strict timelines and agreed-upon budgets across multiple ad accounts.
Attention to detail, proactive problem-solving, and data-driven decision making are all essential characteristics in becoming a best-in-class media buyer at CTC. You are a problem solver and know how to take lead in situations that present any obstacle when it comes to execution.
OWN | You’re accountable, responsible and determined. KPIs are your bread and butter and Google Sheets is your jam. You look to your goals as a foam wall to tear down, and you take great pride in giving it your all. We value the mantra of “Count on Me” meaning that you can see things through to the end! As a Sr. PseB, you work closely with members of your growth team and other members of CTC to project a monthly account budget plan for each account in relation to account goals agreed upon by you and your team leader. You are a champion of communication, giving and receiving feedback in a timely manner, while making sure everybody on your team has clarity on campaign performance and testing results.
With your experience and learnings we look to you to ensure that you’re constantly backing your ideas and opinions with data and bringing that forward for the rest of our team to learn from. As a Sr. PseB you are set to a high standard and as a model buyer that continues to soak in new information as well as sharing it to help elevate non-Sr buyers on our team as a whole. People know that if you are involved, it will get done.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
Success in Your Day to Day Looks Like
- Optimize ad accounts through building, iterating, and testing campaign types, ad copy, budgets, and bids in accounts to hit your spend and ROAS targets.
- Forecast future budgets and performance through the analysis of historical data and industry trends.
- Communicate meaningful results to clients in weekly meetings, reports, and with teammates for a fresh perspective and new understanding of data.
- Troubleshoot accounts to fix errors or warnings across Google Ads, Google Merchant Center
- Help teach and coach junior buyers on the team. Share your knowledge to help uplift the entire team. Assisting with accounts of non Sr. media buyers to guide them through any helpful tips you might have.
Success in Your First Three to Six Months Looks Like
Ownership of Ad Accounts
- Actively running up to 10 clients without regular assistance from other buyers.
Accurate Reporting And Projecting Spend/Revenue
- You’ve learned the ropes and you should be able to accurately project a client’s Google Ads spend/ROAS.
Assisting Wherever Possible.
- As a Sr. Paid Search Buyer you’re expected to share your knowledge with any who need it, Assisting accounts and starting palms down to help wherever you can.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TABLE
- Significant experience creating and optimizing multiple Google Ads account at scale (this is the #1 requirement for this job, and if you haven't done this, this isn't the position for you).
- Confident interpersonal communicator and relationship builder, including the ability to hold people accountable and conduct difficult conversations.
- Expert knowledge of the following: Shopify, Google Merchant Center, Google Analytics, and Copywriting.
- Experience building, connecting, optimizing and troubleshooting data feeds in Google Merchant Center.
- Experience integrating Product Rating from various product rating aggregators into Google Merchant Center
- Excel expertise and a strong ability to analyze data, make actionable decisions and recommendations.
- Familiarity with Google Ads Desktop Editor.
- An ability to think about a brand’s 360º digital approach from customer acquisition through to customer retention.
- An insatiable curiosity, and an inability to leave a problem alone until you’ve found one or many different potential solutions.
- A desire to take calculated risks after carefully examining the calculus and determining that your chosen course of action is the most effective approach.
- Must have a unique combination of humility (willing to do the dirty work) and ambition (vision for what your future holds).
- Skilled in ASANA or relevant project management software, preferred.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and manage multiple tasks with great attention to detail.
- Ability to complete short-term and long-term goals in a proper manner.
- Ability to adapt to new processes, strategies, and goals.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
SALARY RANGE
- $70,000 - $78,000 base salary, annually
- Bonus Structure | 10% of base salary
At CTC, we are fixated on building the next generation of legendary brands and the people who will lead them.
To give ourselves our best shot at accomplishing this mission, we organize all of our decisions — from recruiting, to hiring, to raises, to promotions, to how we spend our time and money — in the direction of three committed values.
We recognize these values aren't for everyone. They're challenging.
In fact, they're so challenging, that's why we invest so much in supporting our team and why we tend to attract people who are craving the opportunity to do more at work than get a paycheck. We're looking for those who are interested in making their work significant.
For those who resonate with the following values, CTC has proven itself to be a remarkable place to grow and thrive.
- We Set the Standard
- We Are Driven To Increase Value
- We Create an Environment of Excellence
We’ll come alongside you and care for you in your pursuits by offering full-time permanent CTC employees:
- ESOP | An agency by the people for the people. CTC offers an Employee Stock Ownership [ESOP] program where the employees currently own 20% of the company through the ESOP. This stock is on top of 401k investment with an estimated* 45% higher earning potential than other agencies.
- 401K | program with a 3% company match (post 90 days employment) to bring out the investor inside you
- TIME OFF | When you’re at CTC, you’re firing on all cylinders. To make that possible, we offer a Flexible Time Off policy where you will coordinate with supervisor to take time away from the office for rest, travel, and variety of others things that are important to you!
- MEDICAL | Full health, dental, and vision benefits that fit your lifestyle and goals
- WELLNESS | A wellness reimbursement program that inspires 360 degrees of health: mentally, physically, and spiritually
*NOTE: ESOP estimates are based on total earning potential over the course of vesting shares and not a guarantee.
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What We Do
Common Thread Collective is an ecommerce growth agency. We help businesses break through to their next tier of revenue by leveraging our formula: (Visitors x Conversion Rate x LTV) - Variable Costs = Profit.
As entrepreneurs ourselves, we know what it’s like to watch a business grow and thrive against the odds.
The “common thread” we’ve found between successful brands is simple: they have a clear business goal and they know how to set targets that ladder up to that goal.
With teams dedicated to growing and scaling brands — across paid media, retention, and strategy — we’re in the business of translating big-picture goals into concrete steps and transforming those steps into real-world outcomes.
Here’s another way of putting it:
We know how to turn a dream into a reality. Whether the dream is to grow year-over-year, sell the business, or change the world, that shared dream is the common thread that unites us.
