Paid Search Strategist, DTC eCommerce

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Paid Search Strategist owning full-funnel Google Ads growth for DTC eCommerce brands. Managing client relationships, attribution, feeds, tracking, Shopping, and Performance Max.

Responsibilities:

  • Own a set of DTC accounts as strategist, buyer, and direct client point of contact
  • Manage budgets ranging from $5k/month to well into six figures per month
  • Present results, plans, and reasoning directly to clients
  • Audit campaign and ad group structure, keywords, search terms, negatives, bidding strategies, impression share, feed health, landing pages, audiences, and conversion tracking
  • Create Loom walkthroughs of account audits
  • Manage brand and non-brand activity as separate businesses and report them separately
  • Analyze Performance Max to distinguish branded from incremental volume
  • Audit Google’s auto-applied recommendations, assets, and sitelinks
  • Own Merchant Center hygiene, product titles, disapprovals, promotions, and feed impact on Shopping and Performance Max
  • Own tracking across GA4, GTM, Shopify goal imports, Google Ads tags, enhanced conversions, and offline conversion imports
  • Diagnose and resolve bottlenecks involving creative, offer, AOV, landing page, checkout, and tracking
  • Build landing pages, scripts, reporting, and other tools needed by accounts
  • Optimize toward NC-CPA and NC-ROAS and use geo holdouts to assess incrementality

Requirements:

  • Hands-on Google Ads experience with meaningful spend on DTC and eCommerce accounts
  • Demonstrable results involving CPA, ROAS, revenue, and specific changes made
  • Experience with Shopping and Performance Max, not only Search
  • Fluency across Search, Shopping, Performance Max, Demand Gen, YouTube, Merchant Center, GA4, and GTM
  • AI-native; already using Claude or equivalent as a working tool
  • Ability to build and ship a landing page using Claude or equivalent
  • Native or near-native English communication skills
  • Ability to explain ideas clearly, sell recommendations, push back on clients, and raise problems proactively
  • Ability to work US Eastern business hours for client calls
  • Bing experience is a nice to have
  • Experience building or operating a Shopify store or running Meta at spend is a bonus

Benefits:

  • Remote work; can live anywhere worldwide
  • Flexible schedule; no time clock
  • High autonomy and trust from day one
  • Fast feedback
  • Opportunities to grow into senior strategy and take on more responsibility
  • Work on real DTC and eCommerce brands with substantial budgets
  • Aggressive testing and rapid learning
  • Build scalable frameworks