Paid Media, Senior Manager

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Simpplr, an AI-powered intranet platform, seeks a data-driven Paid Media Senior Manager to own our paid acquisition engine for Enterprise, Commercial, and SMB segments. You will stay hands-on across Google, Bing, LinkedIn, and display ads, while guiding testing and reporting efforts within a fast-growing Growth Marketing team.

This role reports to the VP of Marketing. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in B2B SaaS marketing, deep experience with paid search, and a strong ROI mindset.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in digital marketing within B2B SaaS, with hands-on paid search experience on Google Ads, Bing Ads and LinkedIn.
• Experience setting multi-channel strategy across search, paid social, display, and ABM with ROI and pipeline focus.
• Experience targeting US/North American Enterprise buyers.
• Strong ROI mindset with demonstrated ability to drive pipeline and meetings.
• Experience owning channel budgets, forecasting spend and pipeline.
• Proficiency with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Salesforce; Marketo is a plus.
• Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills for budgeting and ROI modeling.
• Excellent communication skills; comfortable coordinating with US-based teams; MBA a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own paid media performance from strategy through pipeline across Google, Bing, LinkedIn and other channels.
• Improve conversion and efficiency across the paid journey and optimize spend by audience and campaigns.
• Develop and manage a testing roadmap; scale what works.
• Provide weekly and monthly performance reporting and insights using Google Analytics and Salesforce.
• Collaborate with SDRs, Sales, Marketing Ops, Product Marketing, Web, Design, and Content to align paid programs with ICP and pipeline goals.
• Stay ahead of new channels and AI/automation to improve targeting and campaign performance.

Skills

Paid search management

Google Ads

Bing Ads

LinkedIn Advertising

Google Analytics

Google Tag Manager

Salesforce

Excel

Google Sheets

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

Salesforce (SFDC)

Marketo

Job description

Who We Are

Simpplr is the AI-powered intranet for unifying the digital workplace. It brings people, trusted knowledge, apps, and agents into a coherent digital experience. Powered by a proprietary EX Knowledge Graph, Simpplr synthesizes signals and context across connected systems to deliver personalized information and actions. The platform serves as a digital hub supporting communications, engagement, employee services, and work. With low-code extensibility and enterprise-grade security and governance, Simpplr enables confident operation at scale. More than 1,000 organizations — including AAA, the NHS, Penske, and Moderna — trust Simpplr to keep their workforce informed, aligned, and productive. Learn more at simpplr.com.

Who we are

Simpplr is the AI-powered intranet for unifying the digital workplace. It brings people, trusted knowledge, apps, and agents into a coherent digital experience. Powered by a proprietary EX Knowledge Graph, Simpplr synthesizes signals and context across connected systems to deliver personalized information and actions. The platform serves as a digital hub supporting communications, engagement, employee services, and work. With low-code extensibility and enterprise-grade security and governance, Simpplr enables confident operation at scale. More than 1,000 organizations — including AAA, the NHS, Penske, and Moderna — trust Simpplr to keep their workforce informed, aligned, and productive. Learn more at simpplr.com.

The Opportunity

Simpplr is looking for a data-driven, growth-focused Paid Media, Senior Manager to own our paid acquisition engine. In this role you'll stay hands-on with paid search, LinkedIn, and display ads, and the testing agenda. In this role, you'll drive pipeline growth for both Enterprise, Commercial and SMB segments. You'll be joining a dynamic, fast-growing company with a collaborative and fun team culture. This position reports to the VP of Marketing within the Growth Marketing team.

Your Job Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

• Own paid media performance from strategy through pipeline: Lead Simpplr’s paid search and digital advertising programs across Google, Bing, LinkedIn, and other channels as appropriate. Own everything from audience and keyword strategy to budgets, bidding, creative, and landing page performance—with success measured by qualified pipeline and revenue, not clicks or impressions.
• Continuously improve conversion and efficiency: Identify opportunities across the full paid journey—from search query or ad impression through landing page and conversion. Optimize spend toward the audiences, campaigns, and messages that generate the highest-quality opportunities.
• Build a disciplined experimentation program: Develop and manage a testing roadmap across audiences, keywords, creative, messaging, offers, bidding strategies, and landing pages. Turn results into actionable learnings and systematically scale what works.
• Connect marketing investment to business outcomes: Own weekly and monthly performance reporting across advertising platforms, Google Analytics, and Salesforce. Go beyond reporting results to explain what’s driving performance, where we should invest more or less, and what actions we should take next.
• Partner across Marketing and Sales: Work closely with SDRs, Sales, Marketing Ops, Product Marketing, Web, Design, and Content to align paid programs with our ICP, priority accounts, campaigns, product launches, and pipeline goals.
• Stay ahead of a changing paid media landscape: Bring new ideas, channels, tools, and approaches to the team, including how AI and automation can improve targeting, creative development, optimization, and overall campaign performance.

Your Skillset

What makes you a great fit for the team:

• Experience: 8+ years in digital marketing within B2B SaaS, including 5+ years of hands-on experience managing paid search on Google Ads, Bing Ads and LinkedIn
• Multi-Channel Strategy: Experience setting strategy across search, paid social, display and ABM together, and reallocating spend between channels based on ROI, CAC and pipeline contribution
• Global Market Experience: Proven experience running paid campaigns that target US/North American Enterprise buyers.
• ROI-Focused Mindset: Proven track record of driving pipeline, sales meetings, and customer generation, going beyond just lead generation.
• Budget & Financial Acumen: Experience owning channel budgets, forecasting spend and pipeline, and making allocation decisions based on ROI and CAC.
• Tools Expertise: Expertise with Google Ads, Bing Ads, LinkedIn Advertising, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Salesforce (SFDC). Marketo a plus.
• Analytical Skills: Advanced skills in Excel and Google sheets, including financial modeling for budgets, forecasts and ROI.
• Communication: Able to present digital performance and investment recommendations to Sales, Finance and Marketing leadership. Comfortable working with US-based teams, with regular overlap into US hours.
• Education: Bachelor's degree, MBA a plus

We’d especially like to hear from you if:

• You have experience driving Enterprise pipeline and leading SEM programs at scale.

Simpplr is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetics.

General Benefits Statement:

Simpplr provides a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision and dental benefits. We believe in work-life integration and offer a flexible work environment. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration and teamwork, make Simpplr an incredible place to work.

Your Voice, Unfiltered:

We value the real you. To ensure a fair and authentic experience for everyone, we ask that you do not use AI tools (such as real-time answer generators, transcription apps, or note-taking bots) during your interview

Our process is designed to hear your unique story, thought process, and lived experience in real-time. Use of unauthorized AI tools may result in disqualification, as we want to ensure every candidate is evaluated on their own individual merits. We’re excited to meet the person behind the resume!

If you need assistive technology or AI tools for accessibility (e.g., live captioning), please notify your recruiter in advance. We are committed to providing an inclusive interview experience.

Simpplr’s Hub-Hybrid-Remote Model:

• Hub - 100% work from Simpplr office. Role requires Simpplifier to be in the office full-time.
• Hybrid - Hybrid work from home and office. Role dictates the ability to work from home, plus benefit from in-person collaboration on a regular basis.
• Remote - 100% remote. Role can be done anywhere within your country of hire, as long as the requirements of the role are met.