Senior PPC Specialist / PPC Lead
Comrade Digital Marketing
- Toronto, ON
- $5,000-9,000 per month
- Permanent
- Full-time
- We love the people we work with (no a-holes allowed)
- We are always growing professionally, individually, and as a team
- Our management team is great (respectful, fair, and flexible when needed)
- Our work is interesting, dynamic, and not mired in managerial bureaucracy
- Our compensation is strong
- Lastly, because our team is not huge, each of us creates a real impact on our clients and everyone on the team.
- Run high-stakes legal campaigns end to end — Plan, build, launch, and manage paid search campaigns for law firm clients across practice areas. You'll own performance from keyword strategy through to qualified lead delivery.
- Master Google Ads and Local Services Ads — These are your primary platforms. You'll manage campaigns across both, optimizing for the nuances of legal search behavior, geographic targeting, and lead qualification at every stage.
- Develop strategies rooted in legal economics — Build campaign architectures that reflect how law firms actually value cases—factoring in practice area profitability, case value, and competitive dynamics to make every budget work harder.
- Sharpen targeting and keyword strategy — Conduct thorough keyword research and audience analysis tailored to legal services demand in specific markets. You'll know which terms attract real prospects versus which ones drain budgets.
- Optimize relentlessly for quality, not vanity metrics — Continuously refine campaigns with a focus on lead quality, conversion rates, and cost efficiency. You'll dig into the data daily, identifying whats working and eliminating what isn't.
- Turn data into action — Analyze performance across accounts, surface patterns and opportunities, and execute scaling strategies that grow results without inflating costs.
- Report with clarity and insight — Produce performance reports that go beyond dashboards—communicate the story behind the numbers to internal teams, account managers, and clients in a way that builds trust and informs decisions.
- Elevate the team around you — Provide strategic guidance, mentorship, and quality oversight to fellow PPC specialists. Help standardize best practices and raise the overall caliber of paid media work across the department.
- Client campaigns are consistently producing qualified legal leads at or below target cost-per-lead benchmarks
- Conversion rates and lead quality metrics are trending upward across the portfolio of managed accounts
- Campaign ROI is meeting or exceeding the agency established performance standards for paid search services
- Lead output aligns with case value and client intake capacity—not just volume for volumes sake
- Junior specialists are benefiting from structured guidance, with visible improvements in campaign consistency and execution quality
- PPC processes and standards are better documented, more repeatable, and applied uniformly across accounts
- You've spent significant time managing paid search campaigns specifically for U.S.-based law firms—this is non-negotiable
- You have deep, hands-on proficiency with Google Ads and Google Local Services Ads in legal verticals
- You understand the economics of legal lead generation—case values, intake rates, practice area profitability—and you build campaigns around those realities
- You have a demonstrated history of generating qualified legal leads at competitive cost-per-lead levels
- You're experienced managing meaningful ad budgets—typically in the range of $3,000 to $30,000+ per client per month
- You're sharp with data: comfortable building analyses, spotting inefficiencies, and making optimization decisions grounded in performance metrics
- You've worked in an agency setting and know how to manage multiple accounts simultaneously without letting quality slip
- Experience running campaigns on Microsoft Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, or Yelp Ads
- Background managing paid media for home services or other local service businesses
- Familiarity working alongside SEO and content marketing teams to align paid and organic strategies
- Hands-on experience with call tracking platforms and lead attribution systems
- Prior experience coaching or mentoring junior paid media professionals
- Monthly compensation: $5,000–$9,000/month based on your depth of experience, expertise, and proven campaign results
- Performance bonuses: Additional earning potential tied to campaign performance and client success metrics
- Fully remote: Work from anywhere—we care about what you deliver, not where you sit
- High-value client portfolio: Work with law firms across the country on campaigns where your decisions have a direct, visible impact on client revenue
- Leadership trajectory: Step into a senior role within the PPC team with the opportunity to shape how the department evolves as the agency grows
- Flexible engagement: Full-time is preferred, but were open to contract or part-time arrangements for the right candidate with exceptional expertise
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