Associate Director, Search

Known

  • New York City, NY
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 28 days ago
WE HAVE CREATED A WORLD WHERE ART AND SCIENCE ARE BEST FRIENDSis a modern marketing company engineered for the unprecedented opportunities and challenges facing marketers today. We are about 200+ people strong, pairing PhD data scientists with award-winning creatives, strategists, engineers and expert research teams to produce some of the most innovative and cutting-edge creative work in culture. We believe that when creative truly collaborates with science, strategy, and technology, amazing things can happen.Ad Age touted that “Known may be the ultimate example of a full-service agency,” and honored us with two prestigious recognitions this year: . Without our incredible partnerships with our clients, spanning across the leading brands in finance, technology, entertainment, media, CPG, real estate, and many other categories, honors like this could not be possible, and also have helped us earn additional awards and recognitions over the years like: Emmys, Clios Entertainment and Sports Awards, Effies, Cannes Lions Awards, ProMax Agency of the Year, and Digiday's Most Innovative Media Agency to name a few.We couldn't create this award-winning work without seeking out and hiring the best talent. What does it mean to be a Knowner? We are curious innovators, knowledge-hunters who are constantly challenging ourselves to do better and be better for our clients, for our team and for our world at large. Our offices around the U.S. are open and while most of our people work in a hybrid setting, we are a distributed workforce with a number of Knowners working remotely.BUT ENOUGH ABOUT US, LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUAbout the role:Known's Media Science team uses advanced analytics, machine learning, statistics, and algorithms to plan and optimize advertising dollars. We partner with our clients to translate their business goals into meaningful metrics, and buy media across all channels to drive those target outcomes.As an Associate Director, Search, you own performance and optimization for the campaigns you're on. You will lead paid search team members in daily account management, strategy creation and implementation, tracking performance against goals, and adherence to deadlines, among other topics.WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Driving performance for our media campaigns and amazing our clients, both by meeting their targets and creating insightful narratives
  • Design and author overall team strategy and approach to paid search management across multiple clients
  • Ensure best practice in all paid search activities as well as knowledge sharing across teams.
  • Manages and develops direct reports and is responsible for complete team development.
  • Be a point of escalation, identifying and resolving problems in a client-centric environment and coordinating efforts across the team.
  • Manage achievement of KPIs and deadlines.
  • Understanding the client's overall business objectives and translating them into paid media
  • Coordinate search strategy with other media channels
  • Day-to-day management and coordination of advertising spend you're responsible for, including working with channel specialists on strategy, insights, optimizations, and improvements
  • Occasionally communicating how modern techniques (e.g., ML models, optimization algorithms, and automation) can be used to optimize KPIs
  • Building analyses, stories, and slides for client media plans and reports
WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU HAVE
  • A degree from a well-regarded college or university. STEM degrees are preferred.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in management of the buying, strategy, and execution of highly data-driven performance Search campaigns, ideally in a digital agency environment
  • Understanding of how Paid Search / SEM works with Display Media, Paid Social, SEO, Mobile, Social, and Attribution
  • Broad range of experience managing across verticals and direct response/branded campaigns
Skills, Abilities, and Knowledge
  • Understanding of the basic stats and math that inform smart media buying
  • Superb communication and presentation skills
  • Comfort going in-platform to pull analyses when necessary
  • In-platform experience with, Google and Bing Ads
  • Expertise designing high performance media Search campaigns --e.g. allocation, measurement plan, strategy, and scaling budgets
  • Experience multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment is a plus
  • Experience working directly with data scientists is a plus
Competencies
  • An ability to translate business challenges into quantitative problems, and solve them by whatever means necessary, delivering high quality output to meet the client's expectations.
  • An ability to delegate tasks to small and junior teams
  • Highly collaborative nature
  • A commitment to managing the quality & accuracy of analytics, ensuring high standards with your and others' work
SOME OF OUR PERKS
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • 401k with company matching and no vesting period
  • Annual bonuses
  • Generous medical plan
  • Paid parental leave
ONE LAST THING TO ASK YOURSELFAll this might sound great, but you're probably still wondering, “Would I be a good fit for Known?” or “Would Known be a good fit for me?” Our culture is propped up by four values that we aspire to every day: We are one team. We see the good. We never stop learning. There's always a better way. At Known we are setting out to build something more than just a company. We are building a legacy filled with exceptionally talented people with a kaleidoscope of backgrounds, experiences, and origin stories who feel encouraged and empowered to bring their whole selves to work, and to partner with us in molding and shaping our culture through our values.Known is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against employees or qualified job applicants on the basis of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or locally protected class.The base salary for this position is $100K - $125K.This range is posted in compliance with state and municipal Pay Transparency laws. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible to receive additional Known benefits.#LI-RR1

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