Senior SEM Analyst

LegalZoom; Cerritos (CA); Remote; USD 84,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Sr. SEM Analyst, where you'll take charge of innovative paid search campaigns that drive customer acquisition. This role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams and requires a strong analytical mindset to optimize campaign performance effectively. You'll manage budgets, conduct keyword research, and stay ahead of industry trends to ensure strategies align with best practices. With a remote-first work environment and a commitment to diversity, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the legal services industry while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401k with Matching Contributions

Paid Time Off

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance

Wellness Benefits up to $250

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience managing paid search campaigns required.
• Proficiency in Google and Bing Ads essential for campaign execution.

Responsibilities

• Oversee paid search campaigns across major platforms to drive customer acquisition.
• Monitor campaign data for insights and optimize for performance.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Experimentation Design

Keyword Research

Budget Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing

Bachelor’s degree in Analytics

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics

Tools

Google Ads

Bing Ads

Excel

Job description

Description

About LegalZoom

LegalZoom has been providing accessible and affordable online legal services for over 20 years. Since 2001, we’ve helped millions of customers launch, run, and grow their businesses, secure their intellectual property, and protect their loved ones with estate planning documents. As the industry leader in business formations, innovation remains at the center of all we do. LegalZoom employees are creative thinkers and problem-solvers who thrive on collaboration and embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. Together, we’re working to make a positive impact on the world.

Where we work

In an effort to foster a better work-life balance, LegalZoom is committed to a remote-first work environment. Our Austin, Beaverton, Frisco, LA Metro, and SF Bay Area offices allow our Zoomers to collaborate with teammates and offer special onsite events, lunches, and more. This position will be focused in the LA Metro area.

Overview

As a Sr. SEM Analyst at LegalZoom, you will take ownership of paid search campaigns across major search engines including Google and Bing to drive customer acquisition. We are seeking a proactive individual contributor, with a strong sense of ownership to manage and optimize SEM campaigns that meet business objectives and maximize ROI. This role requires a deep understanding of performance marketing, strong analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. You will collaborate closely with product, product marketing, creative, and data science teams to ensure alignment on goals and leverage collective insights to enhance campaign performance. A strong analytical mindset and comfort with experimentation design will be key as you drive innovation in paid search, testing new approaches, and scaling successful tactics to drive sustained business growth.

You will

• Oversee and execute paid search campaigns across Google Ads, Bing Ads, and emerging search platforms. PMax experience is a plus.
• Monitor and analyze campaign data to identify key trends and insights that fuel data-driven optimizations and guide cross-functional learnings.
• Manage campaign budgets, ensuring optimal allocation of spend to meet traffic, acquisition, and revenue goals. You must be comfortable with budget pacing and forecasting.
• Conduct keyword research, competitive analysis, and audience research to inform campaign strategy and targeting.
• Prioritize and execute continuous hypothesis-driven experimentation across various categories to optimize ad copy, targeting strategies, bidding techniques, and landing pages.
• Conduct competitor research to benchmark campaigns and adjust strategies for conquesting, ensuring a competitive edge in the search landscape.
• Collaborate closely with internal teams, including product marketing, creative, and data science to ensure alignment across all SEM efforts and contribute to project plans and briefs, ensuring consistency with overarching marketing objectives.
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and changes to search engine algorithms to ensure campaign strategy is aligned with best practices and recommendations.

You have

• Bachelor’s degree, with preference for marketing, analytics, statistics, or a related major.
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience managing paid search campaigns.
• Recent hands-on experience with Google and Bing Ads is required as you will be required to directly execute campaign launches and optimizations. Google and Bing certifications are a plus.
• Experience with experimentation design, landing page optimization, conversion rate optimization (CRO), and A/B testing.
• Proficiency in structured analysis and Excel.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present data and insights to internal stakeholders.
• Experience managing SEM for SMB and/or consumer-focused brands, particularly in the legal or services industry, is a plus.

LegalZoom is a remote-first company and the national range for this role is $84,400 to $109,400. Actual compensation offered will depend on several factors including but not limited to: geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, and/or other business and organizational needs. In addition, an annual bonus, incentive bonus and/or restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package. You will also receive a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits as seen below:

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401k, With Matching Contributions
• Paid Time Off
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Plus other wellness benefits to include: Fertility, Mental Health, One Medical, Fringe lifestyle benefits up to $250

Join us in making a difference as we build our future and help ensure access to professional legal advice to all! LegalZoom is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equality, and inclusion, and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. LegalZoom prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Additionally, LegalZoom is enrolled in the E-Verify program.