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Associate Director, Search Performance Marketing

Publicis Groupe


Job Location:

Agoura Hills, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 22 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Company Description

Dysrupt is a performance marketing agency specializing in turning signal into scale through disciplined media buying data-driven experimentation and creative that is designed to perform. With deep expertise across digital Dysrupt helps brands acquire customers efficiently while building durable demand. Born from social and built for growth Dysrupt partners with ambitious teams to drive measurable results at every stage of the funnel.

Job Description

Dysrupt is looking for an Associate Director Search Performance Marketer whos ready to take the next leap in their performance marketing career. Youll bring strategic rigor to a portfolio of clients shape paid media campaigns from brief to execution and act as a trusted advisor across platforms. Youre excited by innovation energized by solving business problems with media and equally skilled at hands-on campaign management and big-picture thinking.

If this sounds like you how would you answer these questions:

  • Doyougeek out over match types quality scores and the ideal bidding strategy

  • Do you want to become an expert in the space and have a constant desire to learn more

  • Do you get excited about newdysruptivestrategies and ideas that challenge the status quo (see what we did there )

  • Do you have passions outside of work that you can bring to ourever evolvingculture and team

If you answered Yes to these questions we would love to have a conversation!

As an Associate Directoryoulloversee a cross-vertical book of business (34 clients) develop integrated paid media strategies across platforms and guide both internal teams and client stakeholders with clarity and confidence. This is a client-facing role with a strong emphasis on performance marketing but with increasing ownership of team leadership process innovation and strategic planning.

Responsibilities
  • Own Campaign Execution: Build launch andoptimizecampaigns across Google Ads (Search YouTube Shopping Performance Max) with a focus on flawless execution. .

  • Lead Platform Strategy: Develop paid media plans and tactical approaches rooted in client goals industry benchmarks and historical insights.

  • Drive Operational Excellence: Champion internal processes campaign QA pacing checks and reporting frameworks to ensure seamless delivery across all clients.

  • Deliver Performance Insights: Analyze campaign data uncover trends and package insights into compelling stories that drive client trust and decision-making.

  • Collaborate Cross-functionally: Partner closely with Client Leads Creative and Analytics to ensure your strategies ladder up to broader campaign goals.

  • Support Innovation & Testing: Own test design and execution within yourbook of business helping move both client performance and agency capabilities forward.

  • Contribute to Culture: Share knowledge platform updates and POVs across the team to keepDysruptsmedia offering sharp fast andfuture-focused.

Qualifications
  • 5-6 years of experience running performance marketing campaigns in Google Ads along with experience in any of the following platforms: YouTube Microsoft Ads (Bing) TikTok Meta or Amazon.

  • Expert-level knowledge of paid media campaign structures pacing optimization levers and KPI alignment.

  • Deep comfort with large datasets ad tech tools and reporting platforms like Google Data Studio (Looker Studio).

  • Clear and confident communicatorable to explain strategies and insights to clients and internal partners alike.

  • Proventrack recordof running complex campaigns independently with speed accuracy and performance results.

  • A proactive andsolutions-oriented mindset; you identify issues early and take initiative to solve them.

  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple accounts and priorities.

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto Viva La Différence means were better together and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities across all facets of intersectionality and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage dental vision disability 401K as well as parental and family care leave family forming assistance tuition reimbursement and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically please contact

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $97375.00 - USD $149296.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law compensation will be determined based on the skills qualifications and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles the Company will offer medical coverage dental vision disability 401k and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 9/13/2026.

Required Experience:

Director


About Company

Publicis Media is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40], alongside Publicis Communications, Publicis.Sapient and Publicis Healthcare. Led by Steve King, CEO, Publicis Media is powered by its five global brands, Starcom, Zenith, Spark ... View more

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