Paid Search Delivery Lead, Media Operations

Monks; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Monks is seeking a Paid Search Delivery Lead to drive end-to-end activation and optimization of client campaigns across Google Ads, SA360, and Microsoft Ads. You will manage projects, lead a team, and advise clients on industry trends while delivering measurable results.

The role is remote within the US, with collaboration across clients and teams globally. 4+ years in Paid Search and strong communication are essential for success in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on proficiency in Paid Search platforms such as Google Ads, SA360, and Microsoft Ads.
• Demonstrated experience building, managing, optimizing, and analyzing Paid Search campaigns.
• Ability to outline, plan, and manage projects with KPIs and timely delivery.

Responsibilities

• Oversee quality campaign delivery and manage client communications and relationships.
• Architect Paid Search strategy and lead campaign planning, builds, and ongoing optimization.
• Build trust with clients and provide updates, review requests and issue troubleshooting.

Skills

Paid search platforms

Campaign management

Data analysis

Project management

Client management

Team leadership

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

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About the Role

The Media Operations team is focused on hands-on-keyboard activation of digital channels - inclusive of tagging, trafficking, buying, & more - and how & where to use the right digital platforms, and use them well, to achieve media and business goals. We ensure consistency, governance, and support around platform usage and activation activities, and aid in all ongoing building, buying, optimization, and reporting efforts.

In this Paid Search Delivery Lead, Media Operations role, you can expect to support both existing and new relationships with partners in an end-to-end fashion, with aspecific focus on hands‑on Paid Search campaign activation, optimization, and delivery. As a strategic partner, this role will help advise and lead clients and peers on industry trends and ways to harness different technology solutions to drive long-term value

Note: This is considered a remote role, and you can expect to work with clients and other team members located across the US and/or internationally.

Responsibilities:

• Utilize your project management experience and technical media skills to oversee quality campaign delivery from client teams and own client communications and relationships. You’ll be a key part of leading team projects and the management of our end‑to‑end engagements and relationships with clients themselves.
• Architect Paid Search strategy and lead campaign planning, builds, optimization, and ongoing management of our clients’ Paid Search efforts
• Build trust and rapport with clients and own client communications and updates, review requests and questions, and troubleshoot issues on platforms and media execution
• Work effectively with team members to complete day‑to‑day tasks for both clients and internal efforts
• Collaborate with peers to share and receive learnings, from both internal and external sources
• Execute and manage Paid Search campaigns across platforms such as Google Ads, SA360, and Microsoft Ads, including campaign builds, bidding, budgets, keyword and search query management, and ongoing optimization
• Monitor campaign performance, identify opportunities and troubleshoot platform or execution issues to improve results
• Utilize internal tools and processes for day‑to‑day work and task completion, e.g. Slack, GSuite, Salesforce, Workday, etc.
• Mentor and develop team members and contribute Paid Search subject matter expertise to Media trainings and initiatives
• Maintain an understanding of the ad industry landscape, .Monks Media Activation services, and identify opportunities to grow business with clients

About You

We’re looking for someone with strong hands‑on Paid Search expertise who can combine technical proficiency with successful project execution, client management, and team leadership within a constantly changing environment.

The essentials:

• Strong hands‑on proficiency in Paid Search platforms such as Google Ads, SA360, and Microsoft Ads
• Demonstrated experience building, managing, optimizing, and analyzing Paid Search campaigns
• Strong understanding of Paid Search campaign structure, bidding and budget management, keyword and search query management, measurement, and performance optimization
• Conceptual understanding of the broader digital media landscape and how Paid Search fits within the overall media ecosystem
• Ability to outline, plan, and manage projects, inclusive of identifying relevant task owners, defining key performance indicators, and ensuring timely and effective delivery/results
• Ability to identify and act on explicitly stated as well as implicit problems, roadblocks, and next steps
• Ability to work with and contextualize data in service of clients’ business goals, including identification of necessary and/or helpful inputs, accurate and consistent manipulation of data sets, and analysis against data to identify relevant trends, outliers, and/or important outputs
• Demonstrated ability to work with data in standard tools such as Excel and/or Google Sheets
• Ability to prioritize tasks & schedules and identify conflicting timelines or concurrent needs and help team members prioritize their tasks
• Ability to run effective internal and/or external meetings, inclusive of agenda‑building, material preparation, note taking, and identification of action items and effective delegation of tasks to junior team members
• Strong written and verbal communication skills when working with both internal and external stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills to manage one‑off tasks and larger or longer initiatives, and to manage your own work in conjunction with team needs and priorities
• Strong self and social awareness skills, demonstrating an ability to moderate your own personal state and stress and recognize how to best work with clients, teams, and individual peers
• Ability to assess and address team member developmental needs
• 4+ years of hands‑on Paid Search experience

At 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

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here !
• 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 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 !)

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. 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: $95,000—$105,000 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital‑first, data‑driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high‑impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long‑term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting‑edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner‑up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record‑breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal‑opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.

Monks does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.