Paid Search Manager (Remote, Rosebank)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Rosebank; Remote; ZAR 1,161,000 - 1,990,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency seeking a Paid Search Manager to own paid media for B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape targeting, budgets, roadmap, and client narrative during calls. Lead campaigns across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads with budget bids, testing, and decisive optimization.

You will craft 90-day plans and quarterly stories that explain performance. You bring 3+ years hands-on Google Ads/Meta, proven ROAS/CPA improvements, agency

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads and Meta: you have built, run and optimized the campaigns yourself.
• Proven track record of improving ROAS, CPA, or pipeline numbers.
• Agency experience across several clients simultaneously.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own paid media across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads for client accounts.
• Handle budget allocation, bidding, targeting, testing, and know when to kill a campaign.
• Oversee conversion tracking and attribution with GA4, Tag Manager and platform pixels.
• Develop 90-day and quarterly roadmaps for each client and articulate the story behind the numbers.
• Drive account growth through retention, upsell, and long-term client relationships.

Skills

Paid media

Agency experience

Client communication

Data-driven decisions

Tools

Google Ads

Meta Ads

LinkedIn Ads

Microsoft Ads

Job description

Blacksmith Agency

• Marketing


• Full time


• Remote (Canada, South Africa or USA)

Paid media only. SEO is a separate seat with its own strategist, so you are never split across both.

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency. As Paid Search Manager you own paid media for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients: the targeting, the budget calls, the roadmap and the narrative when the client asks why. You are the strategic voice at the table, and you make the calls.

What You Will Own

• Paid media across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads for your accounts.


• Budget allocation, bidding, targeting and creative testing, and when to kill a campaign.


• Conversion tracking and attribution you can trust: GA4, tag manager and platform pixels.


• The 90 day and quarterly roadmap for each client, and the story behind the numbers on the call.


• Account growth: retention, upsell and the long-term relationship.

What You Bring

• 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads and Meta: you have built, run and optimized the campaigns yourself.


• A record of moving ROAS, CPA or pipeline numbers you can walk us through.


• Agency experience across several clients at once.


• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.