Senior Digital Marketing Manager

Job Description

Senior Digital Marketing Manager
The short version \n

We need a player coach. Strategy to execution. Hands on the keyboard, in front of clients, mentoring specialists. If the idea of switching from a financial services SEO sprint to a consumer brand paid social roadmap before lunch sounds like fun, you'll like it here. If you need 3 layers of approval to ship, this isn't it.

A full service GTM agency in Chicago. Strategy, brand, web, and digital. We don't run an "AI initiative." We run on AI. Every person on the team uses Claude every day. We call it Craft Mode: Claude absorbs the non-craft (admin, coordination, status, first drafts, reporting setup), humans ship the craft (the strategy, the storytelling, the call that requires judgment). We charge for craft output, not craft hours.  It is the actual operating system.

The role

Senior Digital Marketing Manager owning Paid and Organic across client accounts. You report to Victoria Aguirre, who runs Client Delivery (Creative, Design, Digital, Strategy under one roof). You manage specialists and bring in freelance support when scope demands.

You are the audience proxy in client meetings. The person who pulls the room back to "how does this look from the outside in" when the team is 9 layers deep. You are also the operator who can open a Looker Studio dashboard at 4pm on a Friday and tell the client what is actually happening with their pipeline before they ask.

Lead the strategy. SEO, paid, content, all tied to MQLs, SQLs, and revenue. Not vanity metrics. Run client presentations that make executives feel smarter when they leave the room. Partner with Brand, Strategy, and Web so messaging, creative, and analytics actually compound.

Run the team. Mentor sharper analytical thinking. Not slide skills. Not status emails. Real campaign judgment.

Build the system. QA standards for every dashboard. Pulse checks between reporting cycles so we surface optimizations before clients ask. Find the AI shortcuts that free your team for the work that matters.

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• 6 to 10+ years in digital. Real chops in SEO, paid, and analytics. Not "I've managed an agency that did SEO." You.
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• 3+ years leading teams and client relationships. Agency experience preferred, but big agency lifers will struggle here. We move fast, decisions happen in Slack, and there is no media planner two cubes over.
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• Analytical mind. You connect campaign data to pipeline and revenue. You have killed a campaign because the math didn't math, even when the client liked the creative.
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• Toolkit: Google Ads (Search, Display, Video, Performance Max), GSC, SEMrush or Ahrefs, GA4, Looker Studio, GTM, LinkedIn and Meta paid. Pinterest a plus.
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You don't need to be a Claude power user yet. You need to want to be one. Within 90 days you will be running a Cowork session every morning, building skills, and connecting LLMs to the systems that run your accounts. We train the curious. We do not train willingness.

AI powered, craft focused. Your hours go to work that requires a human brain. 20% Growth Track. Every other Friday afternoon goes to the thing you want to learn or build, paid, on the clock. Hybrid. In office Tuesday and Thursday. Catered lunch on Tuesday. Of course. Gym in the building. Real people. The kind you'd grab a drink with. Often do.

No resume on the first pass.

Send two things to View email address on ziprecruiter.com with subject line "Digital Lead | [Your Name]" :

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1. A 5 minute Loom. Pretend you just inherited a $50k per quarter B2B financial services account that was running flat for 9 months. Walk us through the first 30 days. Diagnosis, hypothesis, what you'd kill, what you'd build, how you'd use AI to compress the work. Camera on. Talk like you'd talk to a CMO.
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2. A 1 page teardown. Pick any agency or brand campaign live in the last 60 days. Tell us what they got right, what you'd have done differently, and what the data probably looks like under the hood. PDF, one page, no decks.
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Top 5 candidates get a 45 minute working session with Adam Fridman (Founder), Victoria Aguirre (Client Delivery), and Gennadiy Chigrinov (Operations). It is not an interview. It is a working session. We co build a real client mini strategy in Cowork. You will leave knowing whether you want this job. We will leave knowing whether we want you.