The ideal Digital Marketing Specialist is an active self-starter who should be positive, confident and passionate. The right candidate is well-attired and professional. This structured, organized individual knows how to prioritize and motivate others. He or she is detail oriented, persuasive and persistent. He or she is active in the community and understands the value of spending time building relationships after work at networking & special interest group (SIG) events.

The Digital Marketing Specialist’s passion is optimizing, analyzing and winning. You love the challenge of obtaining and maintaining excellent search engine rankings. You utilize SEO best practices to improve organic & local search rankings and drive more conversions on client websites.  Your advertising campaigns are on-point and send qualified traffic to client websites.  You measure everything, twice, and then optimize some more.

You are never discouraged, only driven to improve.  You pioneer strategy, research & analytics, creative design and messaging. You are proud of the work you do and enjoy the clients whom you do it for. You own the marketing results and outcomes for all of our clients, using meaningful reports and scorecards for clients to understand key actions.

The ideal candidate is generous, authentic, trustworthy and personable. He or she should have a good sense of humor, and remain approachable and humble. He or she is fascinated with people, humanity and culture. This person is calm under pressure and comfortable with ambiguity.

Being creative, this person offers creative solutions to problems. He or she knows our brand story, our vision, our mission and our audience. This person will be able to use this knowledge to present new opportunities to existing clientele. The Digital Marketing Specialist is both optimistic and reliable.

Activities include creating marketing strategy recommendations for new clients, doing research and recommending paid media strategies, then creating the ad briefs & working with the creative team to produce the assets.

Our goal is to develop our strategic operations into a process and systems driven environment, so we can find ways to scale and grow.  In this role, you would be organized & energized by creating organized, clear and structured directives and turning them into repeatable systems.

 You would be trusted and empowered to evaluate all options and provide perspective as to the best ways for us to scale our operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

MANAGE

• Responsible for day-to-day support and management of paid search channels
• Monitor performance, implement, and make strategic recommendations for paid search campaigns.
• Ensure campaigns are optimized and maintain performance within stated budget goals

PROCESS

• Develop, steamline & maintain SOPs and ensure / enforce compliance at scale within StratMar team functions
• Keep accountability for teams time tracking, task tracking and time management
• Request, review and refine reports for higher management and clients
• Attention to detail and ability to collaborate cross-functionally

TRAIN

• Identify and create training programs and playbooks to improve the teams capabilities
• Develop implementation strategies for new systems and software
• Stay up to date on cutting edge innovations and market trends relevant to the team.

COMMUNICATE

• Serve as the liaison between the marketing team and clients/design team
• Develop the narrative for clients as to how Social Firm efforts are effecting their organization
• Make actionable recommendations to improve strategies
• Build strong relationships with agency partners and internal teams

EXECUTE

• Develop integrated marketing campaigns in depth to produce effects for clients
• Manage task dissemination using project management systems
• Help own the client experience from Kickoff Meetings onward
• Directly support the technical execution of tasks and backfill when appropriate

SEARCH

• Plan, develop & execute SEO strategies which optimize organic search rankings, including local search.
• Identify, monitor, and implement recommendations for campaign and search KPI’s
• Work with all team functions - social media, creative, copywriting, web design and development - to implement SEO recommendations such as:
• Keyword research, site audits, navigation & conversion analysis & specifications throughout web site pages
• UI, UX, and site design recommendations
• Manage internal and external link profiles for link building strategies

STRATEGIC SERVICES

• Defines buyer personas & audience segmentation - identify target audiences and develop strategies that deliver relevant content to drive conversions
• Leads reputation management services including monitoring reviews & profiles
• Writes blog content, website content and advertising copy for company and clients
• Learns and uses Storybrand framework to write compelling content
• Manages and assists with organic social media management of internal company social network profiles

ADVERTISING

• Assists with the creation and management of paid search, social and digital programmatic campaigns
• Performs daily management of these campaigns which includes, but is not limited to: campaign launches, budget & bid management, analytics tracking and optimizations
• Provides recommendations on paid creative formats and dimensions dependent on campaign strategy and objectives
• Excels in internal and external cross-team communication to report campaign insights and also troubleshoot campaign support issues (Occasionally communicate directly with client)
• Stays current with the latest paid advertising practices for both B2C and B2B businesses
• Leads the implementation process for new programmatic campaigns across preferred partners

REPORTING

• Builds and maintains KPI reports, reporting templates and reporting dashboards for clients & internal teams
• Collects, analyzes and interprets data to provide insights as to what the numbers mean for the customer’s current paid campaigns as well as long-term strategies
• Create and share weekly and monthly performance reports with cross functional partners

SPECIFICATIONS

REQUIRED

• 4 year college degree or equivalent experience
• High level of experience in search engine marketing
• Strong understanding of technical, onsite, local and offsite SEO strategies
• Comfortable understanding of HTML
• Experience building ads with Facebook Business Manager & Google Ads Platform
• Track record of success with documented results in digital marketing
• Evidence of career progression with growth and commitment
• Frequent experience with Microsoft Office and Google G-Suite product families
• A smart phone with ability to sync email and calendar
• Ability to prioritize effectively in a fast paced environment
• Strong organization skills
• Great written and interpersonal communication skills
• Heart of a Champion - desire to be the best at what you do

PREFERRED

• 3 years experience working in an agency environment
• Understanding of and experience creating and delivering on key performance metrics for search engine marketing
• PPC management & analytics experience
• Google Data Studio experience
• 2 years of Moz Pro (or similar) platform experience
• Member of a special interest groups (ie: Web Analytics Wednesday)
• Regularly follow industry news sites like SEJ, Search Engine Land, Moz, etc
• 1 year of experience managing direct reports and/or leading agency or marketing teams

DESIRED

• 4+ years experience working in an agency environment
• Holds certifications for Google Adwords and Google Analytics, Facebook Blueprint
• Experience managing paid advertising campaigns on the Bing and/or Linkedin Ads platform
• Outside interests - hobbies, active roles in organizations, community involvement
• Experience with project management and time tracking software, especially Asana & Harvest
• 3 years of experience managing direct reports and/or leading agency or marketing teams

Perks

• Unlimited paid time off
• Flexible work environment
• 401k plan w. company match
• Excellent health insurance plans
• Sales and Performance Incentives