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Senior Paid Search Specialist

Darkroom · New Jersey, United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteMarketing$20k/moFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role (but note the page already shows job title, we should not repeat job title as heading). The posting includes "About Darkroom" (company description) and "About The Role". Also sections: What you'll do, What you'll need to be successful, What It's Like to Work at Darkroom, Compensation, Benefits (maybe). We need to use

for section headings (e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should map content accordingly. We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Senior Paid Search Specialist". Not to be used as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Avoid filler. We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. The posting includes an Equal Opportunity Statement at end; we should remove that. Also remove "About Darkroom" maybe? It's company description; could be considered part of "About the role"? Not sure. The instruction: Use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should create sections accordingly. We have content: - About Darkroom (company overview) maybe could be placed under "About the role"? Actually "About the role" heading is for role description. The company overview could be placed under a heading like "About Darkroom" but that's not in the allowed list. The allowed list includes "About the role". So maybe we should incorporate company overview into a brief paragraph under "About the role" or maybe we can have a separate section not in list? The instruction says: Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., meaning those are examples, not exclusive? It says "use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect us to use those headings where appropriate. Could also have other headings if needed, but better to stick to those. Thus we need to map content: - About the role: includes description of role, reporting line, what you'll do, etc. Could combine "About The Role" and "What you'll do" and "What you'll need to be successful" maybe separate sections: Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We have: Responsibilities (What you'll do): list of duties. Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: "What you'll need to be successful" includes mastery of funnel, 4+ years experience, etc. Also "Expertise in developing, testing, and optimizing advertisement copy and short form video creativeExpertise in creative consultation for successful Paid Social Ads that convertBackground in data-derived decision-making..." This is a bit messy but we can treat as skills. Benefits: "What It's Like to Work at Darkroom" includes Unlimited PTO, Remote-First Culture, Health & Wellness, Finances growth retirement (401k), Parental Leave, Growth. Also Compensation: base salary range $70k, performance-based compensation. Pay: we have compensation section. Schedule: not mentioned; we should not create Schedule section if not present. Thus we will output sections:

About the role

with paragraph summarizing role overview (maybe from "About The Role" and reporting line).

Responsibilities

with
  • list of duties from "What you'll do:" bullet points.

    Requirements

    with
    • list from "What you'll need to be successful:" (including experience, expertise, etc.)

      Skills

      maybe separate for specific skills like mastery of KPIs, creative copy, etc. But we could combine. Better: Use Requirements for experience, Skills for expertise. We have also "What It's Like to Work at Darkroom" which is benefits and culture; we can put under

      Benefits

      . Compensation under

      Pay

      . We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not include duplicated lines. We need to preserve all substantive info: ensure we capture all bullet points. Let's extract details. From "About The Role": - 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. That's a lot; we can summarize but must preserve all substantive info; we cannot invent or summarize away detail. However we can keep as paragraphs; we should not omit any detail. But we can combine into a paragraph under About the role that includes all those points. That's okay as long as we don't lose info. But we also have separate "What you'll do:" and "What you'll need to be successful:" sections. We should not duplicate content. We need to decide where each piece goes. Better: Use About the role for the introductory paragraph (the first part up to "You’ll report to the Managing Director...") maybe. Then Responsibilities for the "What you'll do:" bullet list. Then Requirements for the "What you'll need to be successful:" bullet list (including experience, expertise, etc.) Then Skills maybe for the specific expertise like mastery of KPIs, creative copy, etc. But those are already in requirements. We could just have Requirements and Skills combined; but instruction says we can use those headings. We'll create: - About the role (intro) - Responsibilities (What you'll do) - Requirements (experience, years, etc.) - Skills (mastery of KPIs, creative copy, etc.) - Benefits (What It's Like to Work at Darkroom) - Pay (Compensation) We must not create Schedule. Now extract bullet lists. What you'll do: (list after colon) - 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. - Utilize Platform Ad Managers, third-party reporting tools, and AI to develop insights and action items intended to increase our clients’ revenues month-over-month and solve for attribution. - Religious mastery of important KPIs like CPA, CAC, iROAS, nCAC, MER, aMER, CTR, and CPM. - Understand industry-wide benchmarks throughout all steps in the e-commerce marketing funnel. - Implement real-time, proactive, and reactionary ad-buying decisions across multiple platforms in response to up-or-down trends happening on ads platforms (you will be in ad platforms daily). - Preemptively develop quarterly strategies for clientele based on perceived success metrics, ad spends, YoY performance metrics, and projections. - Deep dive into competitor research, industry knowns, and brand identity to manage client expectations and continually brainstorm new marketing initiatives, creative assets, copy, and review after results. - Understand full-funnel marketing strategies to ensure new customer acquisition is healthy within the broader e-commerce equation. - Understand client needs for success and preemptively deliver projections and forecasts that latter into client quarterly strategy. - Willingness and openness to learn and understand e-commerce P&Ls with a comfortability engaging with financial metrics. Note some items are phrased as attributes rather than actions; but we keep as list items. What you'll need to be successful: (list after colon) - Mastery of the e-commerce marketing funnel —> offer to ad to landing page to conversion. - 4+ years minimum of paid media advertising experience within Paid Search, Google in specific (building high converting funnels and driving quantifiable results). - 3+ years minimum managing paid search advertising for growing clients in the consumer space spending over $400k+ minimum monthly aggregate spend. - Expertise in developing, testing, and optimizing advertisement copy and short form video creative - Expertise in creative consultation for successful Paid Social Ads that convert - Background in data-derived decision-making and forecasting budgets/spend projections linked to perceived results - Experience with all core e-commerce revenue drivers, reporting on metrics that actually matter (CPA, CAC, iROAS, aMER, CPM) Note there is a weird duplication: "Expertise in developing, testing, and optimizing advertisement copy and short form video creativeExpertise in creative consultation for successful Paid Social Ads that convert". We'll split into two items. Now Benefits: from "What It's Like to Work at Darkroom": - Darkroom is not a typical agency. We are looking for A players who want to build something great. We move fast, think deeply, and expect every team member to bring insight and rigor to everything they touch. We hold a high bar for performance, creativity, and ownership — but we also support each other relentlessly. No egos, no red tape — just world-class talent building something remarkable. We believe in autonomy with accountability, truth over comfort, and outcomes over optics. - Unlimited PTO + US holidays: Rebooting is part of the work. Take the time you need to stay sharp. - Remote-First Culture: Many roles are fully remote. Employees based in or near our New York or Lisbon HQs are expected to work hybrid with weekly in-office time. Hub locations include the Brazil and Spain. - Health & Wellness: Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision coverage

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