Senior Media Buyer (SEM)

About the Company Our client is a leading Commerce Advertising platform, connecting premium publishers with 80,000+ advertisers across 200+ networks worldwide. Backed by a major private equity firm, its family of specialist companies covers the full commerce advertising value chain — from content monetization to performance and affiliate marketing. They are now building a new content destination website in the vein of top10.com, Forbes Advisor, and BuyersGuide.org: an editorially driven, affiliate-monetized property designed to scale rapidly. This role sits at the very foundation of that growth engine. The Opportunity We are looking for a Senior Media Buyer (Search) with deep expertise in paid search to own and scale acquisition (Google Ads, Microsoft Ads) for a new content site from day one. This is not a pure execution role. You will act as a key partner to engineering and product teams, ensuring the technical foundation — conversion tracking, pixel implementation, data layer architecture, and signal quality — is built correctly so that automated bidding and machine learning can perform at their best. If you thrive at the intersection of media buying, analytics, and technical collaboration, this role is for you. What You'll Do Campaign Strategy & Execution Plan, launch, and optimize paid search campaigns across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads targeting high-intent users in affiliate verticals Own full-funnel keyword strategy — from discovery to transactional queries aligne