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Growth Marketing Manager, SEM

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 8+ years experience in paid digital advertising
  • Demonstrated experience improving performance of SEM campaigns
  • Strong data analytics skills (pivot tables, vlookups, basic modeling)
  • Strong fluency with generative AI and automation tools

Responsibilities

  • Execute and improve Thumbtack’s paid search strategy
  • Manage, optimize, and grow the SEM program across Google and Microsoft
  • Develop experimentation roadmap for ad copy, keywords, bidding and more
  • Own the tracking, attribution, and measurement of performance metrics

About the company

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thumbtack

Information Technology & Services

We’re Thumbtack, a technology company helping millions of people confidently care for and improve their homes. Our homeowners get personalized guidance on what to do and when to do it as well as who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete small fixes, routine maintenance, and major improvements. With over 10 million 5-star projects and counting, we empower homeowners to take control and local businesses to grow. Bringing the $600 billion+ home services industry online, Thumbtack is a technology leader creating a new era of home care. Working at Thumbtack means being part of a dynamic culture built on integrity, inclusion, and authenticity—where our leaders listen to feedback and take action. We’ll equip you to do the best work of your career, give you the flexibility to live wherever you want, and treat you like you’re our greatest asset because you are. If making an impact and the chance to do good inspires you, join us! Imagine what we’ll build together. Please be advised: Thumbtack's Recruiting team will only communicate with active candidates from Thumbtack LinkedIn verified accounts.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryInformation Technology & Services
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.

Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.

About the Growth Marketing Team

We’re a team of digital marketers that create engaging campaigns across channels and we work closely with cross-functional partners (Brand, Product, Engineering, and Data Science) to drive growth on both sides of Thumbtack’s marketplace. We are nimble, and innovative and our team’s mission is to help customers solve their home care needs by discovering and using Thumbtack’s platform.

 

About the role

As Thumbtack strives to build a branded destination for home management services, we need to meet new customers where they are. The Growth Marketing Manager, SEM will support Thumbtack’s efforts to capture customer demand for local services, while working with Data Science to calculate lifetime value targets, partnering with Engineering to build data pipelines that support bid automation and new tools for ad creation at scale, and collaborating with the larger Growth Marketing team to build effective full-funnel marketing programs.

 

What you’ll do

  • Execute & improve Thumbtack’s paid search strategy, identifying new opportunities for customer and pro growth

  • Manage, optimize, and grow the SEM program across Google and Microsoft, adhering to KPIs

  • Develop experimentation roadmap for ad copy, keywords, bidding and more

  • Partner with cross-functional data science, analytics, and engineering teams to build automation and scalable tools

  • Own the tracking, attribution, and measurement of performance metrics (iROAS, incrementally, lift, etc.) using a combination of in-house and third-party data

 

In order to be successful, you must bring

  • 8+ years experience in paid digital advertising, with a proven track record of improving and scaling ad programs with specific conversion volume and efficiency goals

  • Demonstrated experience improving performance of SEM campaigns through testing, optimization, automation, and creative

  • Ability to manage relationships with a large portfolio of ad vendors and partners

  • Ability to define and execute on a 6-12 month roadmap with aggressive milestones

  • Experience with TROAS + LTV bidding

  • Strong data analytics skills (pivot tables, vlookups, basic modeling)

  • Strong fluency with generative AI and automation tools and a track record of integrating them into day to day SEM execution and analysis

 

Expected salary ranges

  • For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia, the expected salary range for the role is currently $97,800 - $126,500.

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.

Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: recruitingops@thumbtack.com.

If you are a California resident, please review information regarding your rights under California privacy laws contained in Thumbtack’s Privacy policy available at https://www.thumbtack.com/privacy/.

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