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We are hiring for our Paid Media team, looking for a Senior Paid Search Specialist - a performance-driven marketer with a strong mastery of paid search advertising systems, the evolving AI search environment, and a deep understanding of the AI ecosystem and emerging ad platforms. This is not just a tactical role; it requires strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and high standards of execution across digital advertising platforms, particularly Google, YouTube, Bing, and emerging AI platforms like Kontext, Koah, Perplexity, Claude, and OpenAI (some of these platforms don’t have ad services yet). Though primarily focused on Google, the role will require expertise and campaign deployment on other paid search based platforms as well, and a willingness to try new platforms as AI search product evolve.
Perfect candidates will be obsessed with Paid Search Advertising, experts at search buying behavior, with a clear demonstrated history of selling products through paid search advertising, scaling ad accounts upwards of $1M USD per month, and having excellent client relationship management skills. You live and breath ads manager, you are curious about the emerging AI advertising ecosystem, and performance marketing at large. You want to be a part of the best team in the business at scaling brands through digital advertising.
You’ll report to the Managing Director of the department and play a key role in scaling paid media campaigns across a portfolio of high-growth consumer brands. You’ll be responsible for owning creative strategy, campaign builds, optimization, and reporting, while working closely with creative, creator, brand and analytics teams to ensure performance goals are met.
This is a fast-paced, high-accountability environment designed for marketers who are ambitious, curious, and ready to grow. You’ll gain hands-on experience in a broad range of platforms and verticals, while developing the skills needed to lead performance strategies end-to-end.
Darkroom is a career incubator for ambitious talent looking to operate at the intersection of business, design, and innovation.
Please note: We’re not actively hiring for this role right now. We’re building a talent pool of candidates to reach out to when this position opens again. If you apply, your profile will be kept on file, and we’ll get in touch if there’s a match when hiring resumes.
Plan, develop, and implement comprehensive paid media strategies exclusively focused on Paid Search to increase brand visibility and drive new user acquisition and leads via paid media campaigns.
Conduct thorough brand and website audits to understand our clients’ key value propositions, core products, and brand aesthetics and identify opportunities to successfully market them and make them stand out in the marketplace.
Obsession with the paid search advertising action, bid system, and market dynamics to best convert customers at the lowest possible cost for the brand.
Keen to develop innovative paid search strategies that blend traditional search, YouTube, and emerging AI search.
Conduct competitive research to ensure success in the ad space and new acquisition audience targeting.
Manage between 6-10 Paid Media accounts (including but not limited to: Google, YouTube, Bing, and the emerging AI sSearch Platforms (Koah, Kontext) on behalf of Darkroom clients, with aggregate monthly spends ranging between $20,000 - $3M.

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Senior Paid Search Specialist - Talent Pool

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