Are you ready to re-invent digital marketing?  At Performics, we’re accelerating the great missions of our clients—brands like Lenovo, Toyota, Verizon, and Comcast in the ever-evolving world of search engine marketing, programmatic, social media, and eCommerce marketplaces.  

If you’re ready to move at the speed of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have an entrepreneurial spirit, get excited about finding smarter ways to do things, and demand performance for your clients, we’d love to meet you.  We’ll give you the tools, support, and freedom to lead, innovate, and grow.  We hire exceptional people for our global headquarters in Chicago and U.S. locations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco.  Our international presence spans 57 markets (and growing) including regional hubs in London, Dubai, and Singapore. 

We are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their experiences and ideas.  We encourage participation in a variety of Business Resource Groups, including groups for Women, People of Color, Veterans, the LGTBQIA community and allies, and more.  

The role of the Senior Search Analyst is to be the day-to-day steward of search media for assigned brands responsible for monitoring and maintaining search campaign development, activation and innovation. The Senior Search Analyst is required to develop and maintain a strong knowledge of their clients’ business and apply their search understanding accordingly to help deliver against the clients’ needs/objectives. The Senior Search Analyst will work closely with their manager in the development and communication of all search recommendations.

Role Objectives:

• Gather and analyze keyword research necessary to build a new campaign
• Responsible for gathering necessary data for plan development
• Group keywords into ad groups and develop relevant ad copy and extensions with little direction from Manager
• Responsible for presenting recommendation, soliciting and applying client feedback to keyword and copy proposal prior to client signoff
• Upon campaign approval, responsible for building flowchart and loading authorized buys in Prisma
• Generate paperwork necessary for purchase authorization and ensure vendor counter signature is received
• Primary party responsible for trafficking approved plan into search engines
• Primary party responsible for QA of all campaign components prior to launch
• Monitor and maintain campaign budgets, pacing and bid adjustments
• Proactively advocate for campaign adjustments based on performance trends
• Active monitoring and management of performance and competitive landscape
• Development and implementation of optimizations and/or testing plans (e.g. search query reports, negative keyword maintenance, keyword overlap, testing implementation)
• Pulling and analyzing data to inform campaign reporting and develop strategic insights with clear actionable items
• Build clear, concise and cohesive quantitative analyses inclusive of strong data visualization
• Active participation in client status and reporting calls, including presentation of reporting
• Responsible for granular maintenance of monthly billing cycle, including invoice tracking, buy actualization in Prisma, and compiling draft billing for manager approval
• Responsible for resolving all billing discrepancies in partnership with client strategy and billing reconciliation team
• Responsible for learning all relevant tools for reporting, analytics and competitive analysis - bid management platforms, Benchtools, Google Trends
• Mastery of all core search metric calculations and relationships (e.g. CPC, CPA, CTR, SOV, weighted averages)
• Serve as subject matter experts and be a resource for training and ad hoc questions
• Develop strong working relationship with client teams and partner agencies (where applicable) by helping to create a seamless communications process
• Establish professional, productive rapport with sales representatives/media vendors
• Demonstrate creativity and agility when problem solving
• Work closely with manager to establish priorities and manage workload
• Timely delivery of all work

• A minimum of 1+ years of search experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to prioritize and organize projects
• Ability to accurately apply principles of media math
• Demonstrated expertise in core MS Excel functions (vlookup, pivot tables)
• Expertise in search engines and platforms
• Demonstrate leadership ability
• Demonstrates initiative/”hunger”
• Collaborative approach/attitude

Technology Systems Utilized:

• MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Search Ads 360 / Doubleclick for Search Experience
• Google Trends, Google Auction Insights

Budget Responsibility:

• Monitor and maintain campaign budgets, pacing and bid adjustments

Additional Information:

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.