Media & Performance SEA Manager

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Location Salzburg, Vienna, or Berlin

Department Media & Performance

Experience Mid-level

Life as a SEA Manager

We're looking for a SEA Manager who thrives on turning insights into measurable business impact, combining analytical thinking with hands-on execution to scale performance across international markets.

 

You'll work closely with marketing, analytics, creative, and supply teams to build high-performing campaigns, challenge the status quo through testing and automation, and translate complex performance data into clear strategic recommendations that help both our clients and LOOP grow.

Requirements and Responsibilities

• Own Performance Growth: Take full ownership of SEA channels across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, and other search platforms, driving sustainable growth through hands-on campaign management, optimization, and strategic development while consistently meeting efficiency targets.
• Launch and Scale Markets: Build and optimize campaigns for new market launches, managing feed setups, campaign architecture, Google Merchant Center, translation workflows, and testing frameworks for all different campaign types (Search, Shopping, PMax and more).
• Turn Data into Decisions: Analyze performance across multiple data sources—including platform data, GA4, internal reporting, attribution models, and market insights—to identify opportunities, improve profitability, and guide strategic decision-making.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Maintain a robust SEA ecosystem through quality assurance, feed management, debugging, monitoring, and proactive issue resolution, ensuring campaigns run smoothly and perform at the highest level.
• Experiment and Automate: Champion a culture of continuous improvement by developing structured A/B testing roadmaps, leveraging scripts, automated rules, smart bidding strategies, and reporting solutions, and rapidly iterating on learnings to scale successful experiments
• Influence Through Insights: Present performance results and strategic recommendations confidently to clients, leadership, and internal stakeholders, translating complex datasets into clear, actionable business insights.
• Collaborate for Impact: Partner with creative, analytics, and supply teams while sharing knowledge across the media and performance team, identifying growth opportunities through search intent, competitor analysis, and cross-account learnings, and serving as a quality assurance partner beyond your own portfolio.
• Stay Ahead of Trends: Bring a genuine passion for digital marketing, online trends, and the evolving search ecosystem, continuously exploring new opportunities, platform developments, and industry shifts to keep campaigns ahead of the curve.
• Communicate with Impact: Confidently present performance insights and strategic recommendations in fluent English to clients, leadership, and internal stakeholders, translating

At LOOP, we believe great work deserves fair pay — and that transparency builds trust. For this role, the gross annual starting salary (full-time, based in Austria) is EUR 40,000. That’s our baseline for candidates who meet the key requirements. If you bring more to the table — deeper experience, sharper skills — we’re ready to reflect that in your offer. Our internal compensation framework is designed to keep things fair, structured, and clear.

Benefits

4-day Workweek

At LOOP you can choose between a 5-day or a 4-day workweek – and have the freedom to switch between these models twice a year.

Free Sports and Fitness

Yoga, fitness, climbing, tennis and more. LOOP covers the costs and gives you access to fitness studios and sports facilities across Austria or Germany.

+20% Vacation

We don’t believe there can be enough time to recharge, that’s why all our team members get +20% vacation days per year — we call it Sunny Hours.

4000+ m² Office Space

Our loft space is part of our identity. An ideal environment for working, collaborating and finding inspiration — with an additional 600m² film- and photo studio.

100% Hybrid Work

Home office or LOOP office space? It’s your choice every day, and you don’t even need approval.

International and Diverse

Team members from 40+ different nationalities in 7 locations, English as main language and a 55% female leadership quota.

And much more

Language Courses, Visa Support, LOOP.Horizon workshops and trainings, Klimaticket Contribution, Audiobook Library, Headspace App Subscription, etc.

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Our Culture

The key to LOOP's agency personality is our flat hierarchy and exceptional team culture. We believe that there is a wide range of talent in our team, so we won´t restrict passionate people from learning skills in new areas for professional growth. If you are motivated to join the LOOP team, we are happy to offer you a full-time position as a SEA Manager in Salzburg, Vienna or Berlin.

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About LOOP

LOOP is a digital-first lead agency, exploring the intersections between design, technology and digital brand building for leading brands. With a team of 400 digital talents and through data driven marketing, we help brave clients to stand out in the digital age. Over the last few years our brilliant team has done remarkable and innovative work for internationally recognised high-profile brands such as Puma, Audi, Breitling, Red Bull and numerous others.

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