Senior Paid Search Director - Enterprise Growth

Publicis Groupe; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Groupe in the United States seeks a Paid Search Director to lead a senior team of paid search marketers, shaping strategy, staffing, and revenue projections. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, client advisory, and scalable processes to drive agency-wide impact.

You will mentor a 7+ person team, partner with vendors, and push innovations in search campaigns and related media. This is a high-visibility, leadership role within a major global network.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, with 10+ years of direct Search campaign management.
• Proven ability to lead people and projects across a large enterprise.
• Experience managing a team of 7+ professionals.

Responsibilities

• Oversee enterprise-scale Search team, establishing strategic vision and driving excellence.
• Cultivate client leadership relationships and act as trusted advisor for ideation and action plans.
• Represent Search in client leadership conversations and contribute to communications.
• Drive team processes, financial accountability, training and best practice sharing.
• Lead POVs and product updates; identify opportunities to elevate the approach.
• Develop top-to-top relationships with key vendor partners to align priorities.

Skills

Search leadership

Client relationship management

Team development

Cross-functional collaboration

Paid search optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Tools

Google Ads

Bing Ads

Analytics platforms

Job description

Publicis Groupe in the United States seeks a Paid Search Director to lead a senior team of paid search marketers, shaping strategy, staffing, and revenue projections. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, client advisory, and scalable processes to drive agency-wide impact.

You will mentor a 7+ person team, partner with vendors, and push innovations in search campaigns and related media. This is a high-visibility, leadership role within a major global network.