The Badger is hiring: Amazon PPC & Marketing Specialist (International)
Join the Badger Den and Lead the Way with best-in-class Amazon Marketing Techniques.
At Ad Badger, you’ll join a hard-working team dedicated to helping Amazon marketers and sellers. As a new member of Team Badger, you’ll contribute to growth, conversion, and retention.
We’re considered the go-to Amazon PPC tool, community, and training platform.
We have worked hard to provide great training, content, software, and services to a wide variety of brands and agencies.
The Badger cares about quality. Expectations will be high, but your workload will always be fair and manageable and your contributions will be openly appreciated.
If you believe that passion, team-work, and variety are the spices of life, this job is an excellent match for you. Staying organized, being adaptable, and a proactive attitude are all essential to this position.
Your typical work-day will be varied. During our marketing sprints, you’ll balance anything from creating videos for users, answering customer service tickets, promoting content, and managing accounts.
We’re hiring a full-time contractor based in the following geographies: Europe, due to time zone overlap. Monthly Compensation: $2,000 – $3,000 USD, depending on experience. This contractor role will have payments issued bimonthly via Wise.
quick specs
- Full Time Position
- Remote (Preferred: Europe)
- Friendly, Social, and Technical Talent
- PPC Management and Growth Marketing
- Weekly Training on Marketing Skills
- Weekly Training on Client Skills
- Competitive Salary
- Plenty of Badger Memes
About the Person We Seek
We think strategically about Amazon PPC campaigns and build great relationships with our customers, and you will too.
- This is a Remote Position. We’re based in Austin, Texas but this is a remote position.
- Technical Skills or PPC Skills: Knowledge of Amazon Ads is key, as well as Amazon SEO & Marketing
- Spreadsheet Whiz: We’ll have you VLOOKUP during your technical interview.
- Strong Communicator: You know how to instill confidence and talk about a plan to improve results.
- Passion for Content: You’ll share Amazon PPC News with our content team to help build videos for our YouTube channel or blog.
- A Strong Self-Guided Learner: PPC education never ends. This position will monitor Amazon PPC news and strategy to be sure all of our information is industry-leading.
- Warm, Friendly, and Fun: You know how to make clients and team members feel comfortable and you provide them with confidence and assurance if things don’t go as planned.
- A Paid Traffic Champ: There are a lot of PPC managers out there that set up an account and only check it once a month. We’re not one of those PPC-Teams. You love pushing campaigns forward regularly. You are hungry and genuinely excited when campaigns break records.
- Ambitious: We are not okay with skipping by. We have a culture of excellence and big goals.
The ideal candidate
- Is a lifelong learner that loves paid traffic: If you don’t get excited with a ticket to Amazon PPC Mastery Summit or don’t read PPC News, this position isn’t for you. We’ll ask you what you read and how you learn during your interview.
- Has strategic vision: When a campaign doesn’t work the way you wanted, what is your reaction? Do your emotions impact your performance? Are you comfortable building and sharing a strategic vision to map your way out of a performance slump? Can you convey confidence to your clients?
- Is a great teacher: Can you help clients understand when a dip in CTR isn’t a bad thing? Can you help them understand how an increase in ad spend can lead to a rise in profit related to their target ROAS?
- Is confident and self-driven: A client wants to roll out an all broad match strategy. Do you have the initiative to hop on the phone with them and the confidence to explain why that’s not a good idea? Are you comforting enough to not make them feel foolish in the process?
- Has strong online skills: Do you know how to Control-Tab between browser tabs? Is your WPM sky-high? Can you convey a friendly, confident attitude through an email?
- Has strong analytical skills: Do you feel like giving someone a high-five after you create a Pivot Table? Do you know when to use VLOOKUP? When you look at account-level metrics, do you have the urge to dig deeper and find the real reasons for performance changes?
- Has strong salesmanship: We are only as good as the client thinks we are. When things go well, can you link our work to increased performance? When things aren’t going well, can you get people on board with the vision to improve?
- Is ethical and honest: We’re proud to talk about what we do and who we work with at the dinner table with our families.
- Has an “Empty Cup:” There is no time for egos or know-it-alls. Understanding how to be knowledgeable, confident, humble, and helpful are core tenants of our culture.
- Is technologically inclined: You don’t need instructions on how to take screenshots and you’re interested in faster ways to do so.
Day in The Life
Ad Badger has a small services team, working on a select group of brands. This position will assist in those efforts to improve, and provide great Amazon PPC, SEO, and Marketing services.
Below is a sampling of some items you may jump into over a month:
- Client Support: Little to none. This position is primarly focused on Amazon Growth Optimization.
- Optimizing PPC Campaigns: One of the best ways to stay sharp on Amazon Advertising is to work on client campaigns.
- Amazon SEO, and Overall Amazon Growth: SEO, Keyword Research, organizing A/B Tests, and more.
- Reporting & Analysis: Be able to explain and diagnose performance issues and come up with an action plan
- Brainstorm: We’re a small team, and you’ll have plenty of input on the future of Ad Badger when it comes to product development and marketing.
- Work As a Team: You’ll work directly with our Senior Campaign Managers
- Talk about Tools: We are obsessed with technology and how we can build a better app. We study the market, and are passionate about efficiency and effectiveness.
Sound like a match?
Ad Badger is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
