Paid Search Manager Jobs in California
Paid Search Manager jobs in California are concentrated in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, where companies like Google, Meta, and Salesforce maintain large marketing operations and hire at every level from coordinator to senior director. The most in-demand specialties are performance-driven paid search strategy, Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising campaign management, and e-commerce conversion optimization. California's tech and direct-to-consumer economy keeps this one of the most active paid search hiring markets in the country. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Why Harvey
At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come. This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 1500+ customers in 60+ countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, we’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched. Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
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.
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, actionable 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
Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices here.
Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai
Why Harvey
At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come. This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 1500+ customers in 60+ countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, we’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched. Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
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.
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, actionable 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
Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices here.
Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai
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What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in paid search manager jobs across California.
- Google Ads certification and at least two years of hands-on paid search campaign management
- Demonstrated experience managing large monthly ad budgets across search and shopping campaigns
- Proficiency with analytics platforms including Google Analytics and third-party attribution tools
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or a closely related field
- Experience with A/B testing, bid strategy optimization, and keyword research methodologies
- Familiarity with CRM integrations, conversion tracking setup, and audience segmentation
Paid Search Manager Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a paid search manager in California?
Becoming a paid search manager in California typically starts with a bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, or a related field, followed by earning Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising certifications. There is no state-issued license required for this role. Most California employers expect candidates to build hands-on experience through coordinator or analyst positions, and a portfolio showing campaign results strengthens any application considerably.
Which companies hire paid search managers in California?
Companies currently hiring paid search managers in California include Integrated Specialty Coverages, SKIMS, and HARVEY, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. California's concentration of technology firms, direct-to-consumer brands, and large retail headquarters makes it one of the deepest markets for paid search talent in the country.
Which California cities have the most paid search manager jobs?
Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego have the most paid search manager openings in California. Los Angeles drives volume through its large base of entertainment, e-commerce, and consumer brands, San Francisco and the Bay Area draw demand from technology and SaaS companies, and San Diego sees consistent hiring through its growing biotech and defense marketing departments.
Are there remote paid search manager jobs in California?
Yes, and more than most fields. Paid search management is an analytical, screen-based role that translates well to remote work. About 67% of paid search manager openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, reflecting how broadly California employers have adopted flexible arrangements for digital marketing roles. Campaign strategy and reporting tasks are the most consistently offered as fully remote.
How can I get hired as a paid search manager in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a digital marketing coordinator or paid media associate role at a California-based agency or in-house marketing team. Large California employers in technology and retail frequently hire entry-level paid media coordinators and provide structured training. Earning Google Ads certification before applying gives candidates a clear edge. Agencies in Los Angeles and San Francisco are particularly active in developing junior talent, making them a practical first step toward a management track.
Where can I find and apply to paid search manager jobs in California?
You can find and apply to paid search manager jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and location preference, and apply directly to each one.
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