Director, Paid Search

Company Overview

Brainlabs is a media agency built to answer one question: what's actually driving profit? Founded in 2012, we built our team of engineers before becoming a media agency. We have over 1,000 professionals worldwide using proprietary agents, media tools, and logged experiments to connect every channel a brand plans and buys to one thing: the bottom line.

Position: Director, Paid Search

Role type: Full-time

Location: New York City, New York | Dallas Fort‑Worth, Texas | Boca Raton, Florida

Compensation: $125,000 - $195,000 USD

Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. No visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Use deep-practice knowledge to deliver highly successful campaigns.
• Plan, deliver, and measure campaigns ensuring high-impact returns for clients.
• Develop and implement guidelines and processes.
• Actively lead and develop the Paid Search best‑practice roadmap.
• Act as a senior point of escalation for clients, ensuring standards and timelines.
• Play a key leadership role in the practice, growing capability and knowledge.

Qualifications

• Strong Paid Search delivery knowledge with 6+ years of experience.
• Demonstrable success optimizing Paid Search campaigns and work through automation, processes, and technology adoption/development.
• Developing understanding of how channels work and optimize together.
• Natural problem solver who enjoys providing solutions for clients.
• Confident, dynamic, engaging, and authentic communicator who cares about quality and continuous learning.
• Passionate about growing the knowledge of others.
• Excellent presentation skills and strong data analysis and reporting skills.
• Strong attention to detail; methodical and process-oriented.

Success Metrics

• Live the culture code every day.
• Effective campaign creation and delivery metrics.
• Meet internal targets for technology adoption and process optimisation.
• Hit quality assurance metrics on all campaigns led.
• Meet client satisfaction targets (internal & external).
• Learning certifications created and met across the practice.

Brainlabs actively seeks and encourages applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and identities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace: we are committed to equal opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.