Senior Paid Search / Media Manager (Contract / Freelance)

🐸 Why Join Our Team?

When joining Leap Group, you're joining a team that is passionate, innovative, and connected. Some words we've heard our teammates use to describe our culture are welcoming, collaborative, flexible, and dog-friendly (warning: your interview may be accompanied by a wagging tail🐕)

We give our team the ability to make an impact with clients, while expanding their experience and depth of knowledge in the process. We like to show our appreciation for everything our teammates do by offering supportive and inclusive benefits that allow them to thrive. This includes things like:

💻 Remote work

🌻 Autonomy and flexibility

🌞 Unlimited PTO and Summer Fridays

🐣 Paid maternity and paternity leave

🧠 Company-paid access to coaching and therapy

💸 401k plan with match and 1:1 access to investment advisor

🩺 Health, dental, vision, and ancillary benefits

📚 Professional development opportunities

🌈 Diverse and Inclusive Marketing Comes from Diverse and Inclusive Teams

We recognize our teammates are our greatest assets in helping our clients market less and matter more. Diverse backgrounds, opinions and perspectives on our team allow us to expand our own perspectives and, in the process, create solutions that are innovative, creative, and strategic.

We're constantly working to transform our agencies and industry into spaces that are more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, and we welcome the addition of YOUR unique voice and perspective. Don't forget to ask us about our focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion during your interview.

🎧 Accommodation Requests

Leap Group complies with the ADA and ADAAA. If you need reasonable accommodation to apply, interview, or do the job, please include your accommodate request in the corresponding application question.

🌍 Where is This Role?

While we service clients nationally and internationally, Leap Group has a footprint in the Midwest, with offices in:

📍 Louisville, KY

📍 Cincinnati, OH

📍 Indianapolis, IN

📍 Chicago, IL

Our roles are typically open to remote candidates located and authorized to work in the U.S. However, priority will always be given to those located in our geographic footprint. This is because we've found the ability to seamlessly collaborate in-person when needed is very valuable to the nature of our work.

💻 Check Us Out

To learn more about our agencies and work, visit www.leapgroupnetwork.com

💎 What can You Expect?

This is an open call for contract professionals who may be able to support our team on a project, part-time, or full-time contract basis as needs arise. While each role is unique, our media team finds exciting ways to amplify client content. This means both strategizing and executing sophisticated media programs. A day in the life might include things like:

• Providing oversight and media management for new paid search and paid media campaigns and aiding in the creation of paid media/search marketing initiatives – including Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, YouTube Ads, Display Ads, and Programmatic ads.
• Offering senior level insights and recommendations during weekly team or client calls and monthly client reporting calls – including relevant metrics, goal tracking, revenue tracking, and KPIs.
• Monitoring and evaluating paid search and paid media results and performance in line with best practices.
• Managing the creation and deployment of keyword lists, audience targets, and first-party lists, and their deployments.
• Balancing the demands of multiple clients and workflows, communicating, and engaging with internal teammates to streamline efficiency.
• Leading on go-forward media strategies and executions, in situations, and as your expertise is needed.

📚 What do You Need?

• 4+ years paid search management experience (agency experience preferred but not required).
• Google Ads certification.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Comfort and professionalism operating in a client-facing capacity when required.
• Preferably a bachelor's degree in a related field (or comparable work experience).

Important note: if you think you have what it takes to be a great in this role but don't necessarily meet all of these qualifications, please still apply! While we work hard to eliminate unnecessary requirements from our job ads, our teams and needs are constantly evolving, and we'd always love the opportunity to connect and see what might be a fit.