Director, Search Investment

About the Role

As the Director, Search, you will be a thought and strategic leader within the Decoded Advanced Media group. You will be responsible for leading and developing a team of Search buyers. In this role, you will leverage your knowledge of the space to take a step back and help design the right strategies, processes, and training program to maximize the performance of the team. In everything you do, you will be data driven at heart, leveraging core statistical principles to help us separate the signal from the noise, and ensure decisions are backed with analytical rigor.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage cutting edge media buying expertise to drive best in class Paid Search results 
• Turn business problems into business solutions using data, automation, and statistics.
• Question the status quo of our client's strategies and performance, and strive to deliver orders of magnitude gains via innovation
• Leverage statistical principles and design tests to improve our understanding of how and why users interact with our ads and ultimately convert on our campaigns
• Provide senior presence in all forms of client interaction with day-to-day managers 

 

About You

The essentials:

• 6+ years of experience buying media at scale against performance KPIs in Search, with a record of delivering material YoY growth to mature search programs.
• Rigorous and sound analytical process rooted in statistical concepts, including hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, probability distributions, time series analysis.
• Ability to identify improvements in process and automation and collaborate across teams to implement program improvements.
• Ability to lead a team of analysts executing campaigns, overseeing their day to day work and providing strategic and operational support
• Experience working on ecommerce centric clients is a plus

At Media.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

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What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Media.Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

 

 

Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Media.Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

 

Salary Range$130,000—$150,000 USD

About Media.Monks

Media.Monks is the purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 7,600+ digital natives across one global team. We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth. Joining Media.Monks means becoming part of a highly ambitious collective of some of the most gifted, focused, joyful talent from all over the world, with the goal to change the industry for good.

Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption. Our efforts to shape culture, build innovative technologies and unlock the future of growth have earned recognition from numerous esteemed panels: we maintain a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), regular recogn