Senior Performance Marketing Manager, Paid Search

Harvey

$136K — $204K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of performance marketing experience, particularly in Google Ads and Microsoft Ads.
  • Proven track record managing large paid search budgets that directly impact lead generation and pipeline.
  • Strong analytical skills, leveraging performance data for strategic decision-making.
  • Familiarity with attribution, conversion tracking, and CRM integrations.
  • Ability to manage both strategic planning and detailed execution effectively.
  • Exceptional cross-functional communication skills, translating data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

  • Own the global paid search strategy, driving acquisition, pipeline, and revenue growth.
  • Manage end-to-end search performance, including budgeting, forecasting, and investment strategies.
  • Build, launch, and optimize paid search campaigns across various global markets.
  • Maximize ROI through sophisticated bid management and landing page optimization.
  • Stay updated on the evolving search landscape and identify growth opportunities.
  • Develop executive-ready reports that connect paid search investments with measurable business outcomes.
  • Design and execute rigorous experimentation across various campaign elements.

Benefits

  • Collaborative environment focused on innovation in legal technology.
  • Opportunity to shape growth strategies with a mix of strategy and execution.
  • Access to AI-powered tools for accelerated creative development.
  • Emphasis on continuous learning through experimentation and optimization.
Full Job Description
Role Overview

Harvey is transforming how legal professionals work through AI. We're looking for a Senior Performance Marketing Manager, Paid Social to help unlock the next stage of growth across our paid media programs.

You'll own and scale paid social as a key driver of pipeline, revenue, and market awareness-reaching legal decision-makers across law firms and corporate legal departments worldwide.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You'll develop audience strategies, launch and optimize full-funnel campaigns, partner closely with creative and content teams, and use data to uncover new growth opportunities. You'll own the roadmap and end-to-end execution while helping shape how paid social contributes to Harvey's broader growth strategy.

We're looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, embraces experimentation, and has a track record of turning paid media investments into measurable business outcomes.

What You'll Do

Own and Scale Paid Search Growth
  • Own Harvey's global paid search strategy across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, defining the vision for how paid search drives customer acquisition, pipeline, and revenue growth across segments.
  • Manage end-to-end search performance, including budget allocation, forecasting, pacing, and investment strategy to consistently achieve ambitious pipeline and revenue targets.
  • Build, launch, and optimize paid search campaigns across global markets, continuously refining campaign structure, bidding strategies, audience targeting, keyword expansion, and messaging to maximize performance and efficiency.
  • Manage significant paid search budgets, optimizing ROI through sophisticated bid management, search intent analysis, landing page optimization, and conversion rate improvements.
  • Stay ahead of the evolving search landscape-including AI-powered search experiences, emerging ad products, and platform innovations-to identify new growth opportunities before competitors.
  • Develop executive-ready performance reports and strategic business reviews, surfacing insights, opportunities, and recommendations that connect paid search investments to measurable business outcomes.

Drive Experimentation and Performance
  • Design and execute a robust experimentation roadmap across bidding strategies, keyword expansion, ad copy, audience segmentation, landing pages, campaign structure, and emerging Google product betas.
  • Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate creative development, automate workflows, uncover insights, and improve campaign optimization at scale.
  • Continuously optimize performance by analyzing search intent, auction dynamics, competitive trends, user behavior, and platform innovations.
  • Build scalable testing frameworks, operational playbooks, and optimization processes that enable continuous optimization and long-term growth.

Partner Across the Business
  • Partner with Web, Design, Content, and PMM to ensure paid search messaging is consistent across channels and tied into integrated, full-funnel campaigns.
  • Collaborate with Marketing Operations and Data Analytics to strengthen attribution, conversion tracking, offline conversion optimization, reporting infrastructure, and measurement frameworks.
  • Communicate performance trends, experimentation results, and translate performance data into clear, actional insights and strategic recommendations for cross-functional partners and executive leadership.


What You Have
  • 7+ years of experience in performance marketing with deep, hands-on expertise in managing Google Ads and Microsoft Ads.
  • Track record managing large-scale paid search budgets with demonstrated impact on lead generation and pipeline.
  • Strong analytical capabilities with experience using performance data to drive strategic decisions.
  • Working knowledge of attribution, conversion tracking, CRM integrations, and marketing measurement frameworks.
  • Ability to operate both strategically and tactically-you can define the roadmap and execute the details.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication skills with the ability to translate campaign data into strategic recommendations and align with stakeholders across marketing, sales, and operations.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Conversion APIs, offline conversion tracking, and value-based bidding.
  • Experience scaling international paid search programs across multiple regions and languages.
  • Experience marketing to enterprise B2B audiences-ideally within legal technology, AI, SaaS, or professional services-with complex buying cycles.


Compensation

$136,000 - $204,000 USD

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