Senior Specialist, Search

WE HAVE CREATED A WORLD WHERE ART AND SCIENCE ARE BEST FRIENDS

Known is 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: #3 on The A-List as one of the top agencies in the world, and Ad Age’s Data & Insights Agency of the year for the second year in a row. 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 YOU

About the role:

The Media Science team continues to grow and so does our need for a Senior Specialist on the Paid Search team. This position is responsible for the creation, maintenance, and optimization of our search ad campaigns, using analytics, automation, and piloting internal tools. While they will be working in a team with at least one more senior member, this position is assuming experience executing and reporting on paid search campaigns, and therefore some ability to do so independently. Senior Specialists are expected to have excellent critical thinking skills, with an innate sense of curiosity and the desire to explore new ways to evolve and improve campaign setup to deliver ROI for our clients. In addition, time and project management skills are key to being successful in this role.  

Being a Senior Specialist at Known is a unique opportunity for those pursuing a career in this field. In addition to the analytics and operations which form the basis of our campaigns, our Senior Specialists often work directly with clients, attending client meetings and presenting recommendations and results with support from more senior members. They are responsible for contributing significantly to deliverables, including regular campaign optimizations.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Leading in all elements of a search campaign launch, including campaign setup, ad trafficking, and QA across platforms like Google, Microsoft Ads (Bing), Apple Search Ads, and more.
• Day-to-day monitoring, management, analytics, optimization, and development of assigned campaigns
• Assist in campaign planning process with recommendations across campaign approaches, audience targeting, and measurement
• Independently build and present campaign-related analyses and performance results.  These analyses can include everything from general reporting to audience deep dives, bid approaches, experiment results, creative analysis, and landing page strategy.
• Drive and implement optimizations and new campaign strategies, such as new bid approach, ad copy A/B tests, and audience testing to improve performance
• Ideate on new analytical methodologies for optimizing our campaigns
• Validate data analyses by reviewing and performing audits of our data in reporting or creating new analyses that better serve our clients or improve our efficiency
• Management of media finance and billing needs for paid search campaigns

WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU HAVE

• 2-3 years of professional experience working directly with paid campaigns on Paid Search platforms such as Google, Microsoft Ads (Bing), or Apple Search Ads
• 2+ years professional experience in analytics, advertising, ad tech, or media
• Experience managing $1M+ budget independently a plus
• Can exhibit technical leadership and critical thinking by reviewing and identifying campaign setup errors or opportunit