Job title: Search Engine Marketing Manager (Remote, Canada)
Company: FreshBooks
Job description: Search Engine Marketing Manager
About FreshBooks
is a leading cloud-based SaaS accounting software designed with one goal: to help small business owners grow. We reached after raising our valuation to more than $1 billion and continue to scale our business to serve business owners, their clients, and accountants in more than 160 countries worldwide. FreshBookers are found all over the globe, and we know that different folks thrive in different working environments: Remote, onsite, and everything in between, you’ll find it with us.
The Opportunity – Search Engine Marketing Manager (SEM)
As the Search Engine Marketing Manager you will help drive customer and ROI growth for the company. You will collaborate with a cross-functional group of marketers, developers, and data scientists to drive growth at FreshBooks. This is a hands-on role involving a variety of platforms including Google AdWords and Bing Ads.
What You’ll Do as a Search Engine Marketing Manager
Strategy development and execution
- Ensuring a deep understanding of the overall business strategy and objectives
- Act as a subject matter expert in paid search marketing, responsible for strategy and best practices to drive improved performance, supporting all marketing and digital channel efforts to ensure a consistent approach to winning in paid search
- Evaluating current SEM account setup, developing new strategies to increase performance, and proactively presenting those to internal planning teams as required. Daily, weekly and monthly optimizations, including evaluating ad copy, ad formats, and ad groups, and implementing negative keywords and bidding strategies.
- Regular analyses of Google analytics and landing pages to determine the impact on overall search results and web traffic and ability to direct site tagging strategy and successfully set up and manage performance-driven campaigns.
Ongoing improvement and evolution of channel offerings:
- Lead the formulation of POVs and collaborate with both internal and external partners to drive adoption of new SEM platform opportunities and industry best practices paying special attention to innovations concerning targeting/personalization, audiences, measurement, and optimization capabilities and working with partners to understand Alphas and Betas in the market and testing and learning new search tactics and bidding strategies
Leading Technical Expertise:
- Deep knowledge of Google AdWords, Bing ads, Apple search ads, etc. Including maintaining certifications where appropriate
- Ensuring a deep familiarity with pixels, their implementation, and testing to ensure they are working correctly including the evolution of campaign tracking/tagging and recognizing and troubleshooting data anomalies with vendors and internal teams as needed. Requires advanced knowledge of Google suite, third-party management systems and data handling
- Build exceptional proficiency in the team with SQL, reporting tools, and web analytics (Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Bing, SEMRush, etc.). Build and maintain experience with Python and JavaScript/React/Redux
Managing Staff, Process and the Search Product
- Ensuring that process and communication is efficient and accurate between cross-functional teams and search team. Refining this process is ongoing as required.
- Coaching and mentoring direct reports – helping them advance their technical knowledge and skillset and training through practical exposure to tasks with close oversight, positive feedback and repetition. Providing explanations of the ‘why’ behind each task
- Establishing deadlines and following up to meet deadlines and ensuring that workload is well distributed and there are fail-safes/backup plans for unplanned absences
- Educating cross-functional colleagues and direct reports on the search landscape and pertinent technical issues – training colleagues etc., where appropriate/requested.
Managing the financial health of the channel through:
- Accurate execution of media budgets and management of monthly targets
- Forecasting budgets and pacing, ensuring reporting/forecasting as needed
- Timely approval & reconciliation of media invoices
What You’ll Bring to the Role
- 4-5 years of SEM experience
- experience creating and executing strategic SEM campaigns
- managing big budgets
- running campaigns across multiple markets
- Experience working on the following tools – Google AdWords, Google Analytics, Microsoft ads, Apple search ads, SEM rush
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Comfortable working in fast-paced environments
Our Commitments to You
At FreshBooks each person knows their opinion is valued, and can see their impact on the lives of over 10 million small business owners around the world. Accelerate your career, work on projects you’re passionate about, and work as a part of a collaborative team without ego! Here are some of the ways FreshBooks recognises and rewards our employees:
- 🩺 Comprehensive Health and Wellness Benefits. Including retirement savings programs matched to your local office, stock options for every full time employee, generous time off, parental leave and new parent support, annual healthy living credit, comprehensive medical and dental benefits dependent on your region, and more.
- 📚 Perks that Matter. Including a Peer Recognition Program, an Employee Assistance Program, headphone credit, meaningful in-person gatherings to bring onsite and remote employees together, and more perks matched to your locale.
- 🌱Working Environments to Help You Thrive. Beautiful office spaces welcome you in Canada and Mexico, and remote FreshBookers receive a home office credit to set up your home office.
- 🤗 Supportive Peer Group, Mentors, and Leaders. We care about each other across the organisation and have programs to support this so everyone feels a strong sense of belonging, and believes in collective impact.
- 🚀 Accelerated growth. 3 week dedicated company onboarding, career development through continuous coaching, training, and learning on the job, and a bi-annual review process.
Closing
Even if your experience doesn’t meet every bullet on the above lists, we’d love to learn more about you and why you think FreshBooks is the next step in your career.
FreshBooks is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, religion, race, mental disability, sexual orientation, age, or any other status. All applicants are considered based on their qualifications and merits. At FreshBooks, we inspire an environment of mutual respect and we believe diversity and inclusion are crucial to our success.
FreshBooks provides employment accommodation during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please indicate this on your application and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any questions, suggestions or required documents regarding accessibility in a different format, please contact us at phone 416-780-2700 and/or accessibility@freshbooks.com.
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Location: Toronto, ON
Job date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:24:31 GMT
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