Senior Amazon PPC Specialist (Seller Central, Sponsored Products) at Luminize in San Diego, CA

Job description

• 📍 Role: Senior Amazon PPC Specialist (Seller Central, Sponsored Products)
• 📍 Location: San Diego, CA 92101 (Onsite at Symphony Towers)
• 💰 Compensation Range: $90,000 - $120,000 DOE
• At Luminize, we help brands win, and as one of the top 5 Amazon sellers in the US, we’re looking for top performers to grow with us.
• We’re shaping brand stories, driving scalable growth, and setting new standards for what performance looks like on the world’s biggest retail platform. We’re looking for a Senior Advertising Strategist to lead digital ad campaigns for Amazon and other retail media platforms. In this role, you'll own strategy, guide junior team members, and help shape the future of our ad services.
• If you want your next move to mean more - more ownership, more growth, and more impact - we’d love to meet you!

Responsibilities

• Build and restructure Sponsored Products, Brands and Display campaigns across your brands
• Run waste audits, set negation thresholds and defend them with numbers
• Decide where branded spend is worth it and where organic rank already has it covered
• Take a bad metric and turn it into a good one, then explain in a client meeting exactly what you changed and why
• Mentor junior team members and share your expertise
• Sit in the room with brand management, content, catalog and supply chain teams to collaborate on growth strategies for our brands

Requirements

• Hands-on management of Amazon Sponsored Products or Sponsored Brands inside Ad Console within the last 12 months. Hands-on Google Ads or Microsoft Ads paid search within the last 12 months also counts - we have hired strong paid search people into this seat and it worked.
• 5+ years in digital advertising, with your most recent platform work no more than 18 months old
• Fluency in negation strategy, match types and harvesting
• Google Sheets & Excel analysis
• Comfortable presenting data and defending a recommendation directly to clients
• Able to work onsite in San Diego 5 days a week
• Agency or multi-brand seller experience
• Perpetua, Helium 10 or similar tooling
• Walmart Connect, Instacart Ads or other retail media breadth
• Experience mentoring junior strategists or owning training content
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business or a related field, or the equivalent in experience

Skills

Required

• Amazon Sponsored Products
• Amazon Sponsored Brands
• Amazon Ad Console
• Google Ads
• Microsoft Ads
• Negation strategy
• Match types
• Harvesting
• Google Sheets
• Excel
• Data presentation
• Client communication

Preferred

• Agency or multi-brand seller experience
• Perpetua
• Helium 10
• Walmart Connect
• Instacart Ads
• Retail media
• Mentoring

Benefits

• Your office comes with a view, literally.
• Panoramic city and coastline views from your workspace
• Free building gym access, no separate membership
• 24/7 paid downtown parking, blocks from the office, plus secure bike storage
• Exclusive discounts at tower restaurants and cafes
• Steps from 100+ top-rated bars, restaurants, coffee shops and Petco Park
• Ergonomic standing desks and premium workstations
• Fully stocked kitchen, snacks, espresso
• Monthly all-company lunches, and a team lounge with a pool table for when you need twenty minutes away from a bid sheet
• You do great work here and we want to take care of you outside of it, too.
• Comprehensive medical coverage, choose from multiple plans through Anthem Blue Cross
• Dental & vision, including orthodontia and annual exams
• Pet benefits, savings on vet care, products, and services
• Paid Vacation, accrue 120 hours a year, with rollover
• Paid holidays and sick time
• 401(k) with company match, we invest in your future, too
• We’ve listed a broad salary range of $90,000-$120,000/year to account for varying levels of experience, skill sets, and leadership depth. Where you land in the range will depend on how your background aligns with this role.
• We’re committed to compensating based on value and impact, not just years on paper, and we’re happy to have open conversations throughout the process.