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title: 'Paid Search Manager at Pearmill'
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# Paid Search Manager at Pearmill

- **Company:** Pearmill
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pearmill/7bc9b3cc-f15d-48d8-be89-29a3f8f50a59

## Job description

## About the role

As a Paid Search Manager, you own a set of client accounts end-to-end. You write the strategy, build and launch the campaigns, watch them daily, and write the weekly report that goes to the client. You are the person the client hears from about search. A large part of this job now runs through AI, and that has changed what the role spends its time on. If that's not how you want to work, this won't be the right fit. We're a small, growing team. Your responsibilities will grow and change with the company, and you'll have an enormous impact on the business.

## What you'll own

Accounts and strategy

- Own 4 to 6 client accounts across Google Ads (Search, PMax, Demand Gen, YouTube, Shopping) and Microsoft Ads.
- Write the strategy, planning, and forecasting documents before you build.
- Own the bidding and account structure calls, and defend them to a client who will likely push back.
- Run budget pacing off a forecast you built, and say where the month lands before the client asks.

Day to day

- Stay close to your accounts. The job rewards catching things early.
- Keyword and search term work, negative keyword architecture, campaign restructures.
- Write and audit ad copy against our rubric.
- Delegate build work and review what comes back. You stay accountable for what ships.
- Write the weekly client report, and the story that goes with the numbers.

AI and tooling (this part is not optional)

- Run reporting and analysis through Claude using our skills and MCP connectors. A large share of the analytical work here is already AI-generated, and that share is growing.
- Build and improve your own skills and workflows when a manual process repeats. Several of our current reporting workflows started as someone building a skill for themselves.
- Judge AI output critically. Nothing reaches a client that you haven't checked yourself.

Diagnosis and measurement

- Reconcile platform numbers against attribution tools and the client's own reporting, and explain a discrepancy rather than forward it.
- Catch tracking problems before they show up in a report.
- Support new business with audits for prospects.

## About you

- 3+ years hands-on in Google Ads. Microsoft Ads experience is a plus.
- Deep on SEM fundamentals, with opinions you can defend using data.
- Familiarity with GA4, GTM, and conversion tracking setups.
- You've built with AI, not only prompted it. A workflow automation, a reporting tool, a model that does something useful, a script that took a manual step out of your week.
- Comfortable in spreadsheets: pacing models, pivot tables, audit sheets.
- You write and speak clearly for a specific reader, and you can hold a room with a founder or an exec.
- Proactive by default for each client. You raise things before anyone asks, and you take ownership of performance outcomes.
- Bonus: Shopping feeds, YouTube, cross-channel context (Meta, TikTok), or hands-on tracking implementation.

## What you'll find here

- Competitive salary with bonus structure
- 99% coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Distributed, remote, and global culture
- Unlimited vacation with 3 weeks required vacation
- Unlimited mental health or physical health leave
- Remote work budget to make it easier to work from wherever you feel most productive!
- Monthly physical activity budget to get your body moving
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Stipend for laptop and other home office equipment
- Indoor plant budget
- Annual company-wide retreat
- Yearly stipend for books, seminars, courses, and coaches
- Matching for charitable donations

Flourishing at Pearmill We get an unreasonable amount of satisfaction out of making the things around us better at their jobs. Clients who arrived wanting a channel fixed and left with a system. People who joined to run ad accounts and left able to build a team that runs global strategy. And most recently, our little AI agents running around our Notion docs and giving us super powers. We're a fast growing, diverse group of goofy yet dedicated marketers, creatives, engineers, and analysts, running over $500M in ad spend across 15+ platforms. Join us!

## About Pearmill

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pearmill is an AI-native creative and performance marketing agency that helps fast-scaling startups and category creators achieve exponential growth through data-driven insights, beautiful advertising, and a tech-company culture.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Operating as an Agency / Partnership)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Nima Gardideh (Co-founder, President, CTO), Mary Boyagi (Co-founder, Creative Director), Donovan McKnight (Partner, Head of Creative), Leala King (Partner, Head of Creative)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Advertising Services, Digital Performance Marketing, Creative Production, Growth Analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C startups, fast-scaling brands, and category creators in fintech, DTC, consumer goods, healthcare, and B2B.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To shift advertising towards a more trustworthy industry by producing beautiful, honest, and high-performing ads, while creating a healthier and more transparent environment for our people." [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **[Full-Funnel Performance Marketing]**: End-to-end management of paid social and paid search campaigns across platforms like Meta, Google, and TikTok, focused on delivering measurable ROAS.
- **[Data-Informed Creative Production]**: A specialized service combining creative strategy, copywriting, and design to produce high-performing ad assets that are "beautiful and honest."
- **[Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) & Analytics]**: Services that help clients optimize landing pages and user flows, paired with advanced growth analytics and attribution modeling to understand campaign effectiveness.
- **[Proprietary AI & Tech Stack]**: An "AI-native" approach where the team integrates data engineering and proprietary technology to automate workflows and enhance human judgment, setting them apart from traditional agencies. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Privately held).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue / Run Rate not disclosed; workforce of **24-30 employees**; reported to be growing faster than traditional agencies, achieving a run rate that most agencies require over a decade to reach within 5 years. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed. The company is structured as a partnership (Pearlstein McCullough, LLP) rather than a VC-backed startup. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearmill)
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Reports helping clients **3x their ROAS** on average.
    - Operates in **10 countries** with a highly distributed team.
    - Has strong LinkedIn follower growth (+18.0% yearly, total 1,630 followers). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearmill)
    - Identifies as a "fastest-growing performance marketing agency in the US."

## Competitive Advantages
- **Tech-Company Culture vs. Agency Model**: Pearmill explicitly designs itself to operate more like a tech company than a traditional agency. They focus on hiring "outliers" and providing extreme autonomy rather than relying on junior talent arbitrage. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Long-Term Client Relationships**: They are highly selective about client partnerships and are willing to "fire clients" who are not a good fit, fostering deep, long-term engagements. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Profit Sharing & Talent Retention**: A significant differentiator is their profit-sharing model, which ties team member compensation directly to the success of the business. This is rare in the agency world and aligns incentives. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
- **Integrated AI & Human Judgment**: They combine human creativity with proprietary data engineering and AI tools, claiming this blend allows them to outperform competitors who rely solely on one or the other. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling an "Outlier" Team**: The company is focused on recruiting "outliers" from unconventional backgrounds who thrive on autonomy and designing new solutions, rather than fitting a typical corporate mold. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Building a Global, Remote-First Infrastructure**: With people across New York, Bay Area, Kiev, Minneapolis, Berlin, and Skopje, they are actively building a distributed and global culture.
- **Productizing Agency Services**: They are moving toward a more tech-centric model by building AI tools and frameworks that can be reused and scaled, moving beyond one-off project work.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Transparency**: Pearmill emphasizes a "healthier and more transparent environment." They are open about their compensation philosophy, profit sharing, and even their willingness to fire incompatible clients. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Distributed, Remote, and Global**: The company is fully setup for remote work, providing a "remote work budget" and allowing staff to work from wherever they are most productive. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
- **Exceptional Perks & Benefits**:
    - 99% coverage for Health Care, Dental, and Vision. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
    - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and 6 weeks of fully paid parental leave. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
    - Profit Sharing (compensation tied to client success).
    - Unlimited vacation with a mandatory 3-week minimum.
    - 401k with 100% matching up to 4%.
    - Matching charitable donations and budget for activism.
    - Budget for learning (books, seminars, courses) and equipment (laptop, indoor plants). [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
    - Unlimited mental or physical health leave.
- **Autonomy & Impact**: Employees are given extreme autonomy and are expected to act as "outliers" with outsized impact, similar to early hires at tech giants like Stripe or Airbnb. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Engineering & Tech Focus**: While an agency, they hire engineers and data scientists to build their internal tech stack, appealing to those who want to work on ad-tech and data engineering challenges. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

## Sources
1. [pearmill.com Careers](https://pearmill.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearmill)
3. [builtin.com Company Overview](https://builtin.com/company/pearmill)
4. [theorg.com Org Chart](https://theorg.com/org/pearmill)
5. [pearmill.com Blog: Agency Culture](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

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