Paid Search Manager (Remote, Stellenbosch)

Blacksmith Agency; Stellenbosch; Remote; ZAR 1,486,000 - 2,312,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Paid Search Manager to own paid media for a portfolio of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will plan budgets, craft the 90-day roadmaps, and articulate the narrative on calls with US clients.

You’ll drive ROAS improvements, manage campaigns across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Ads, and lead attribution using GA4 and pixels. You will work remotely with a US-centric client base, collaborating with account teams to retain clients, upsell opportunities,

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads and Meta across multiple client accounts.
• Proven ROAS/CPA improvements with client walkthroughs.
• Experience with agency workloads across several clients.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Own paid media across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads for your accounts.
• Budgeting, bidding, targeting, testing and campaign pruning.
• Create 90-day and quarterly roadmaps for each client and narrate the numbers on calls.
• Drive account growth through retention, upsell, and long-term client relationships.

Skills

Google Ads

Meta Ads

Agency experience

Clear spoken English

ROAS/CPA improvements

Tools

GA4

Tag Manager

Pixels

Job description

• Remote (USA, Canada, Latin America or South Africa)

Blacksmith Agency

• Marketing
• Full time
• Remote (USA, Canada, Latin America or South Africa)

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.