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Performance Automation Specialist, Financial Services

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Compensation
$124–180K/yr
Location
Chicago, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Performance Automation Specialist will lead Search growth for major financial services partners, using Google’s AI products and performance solutions to address customer challenges and grow advertising business. The role advises sales teams, customers, and agencies, translating performance data into business insights and roadmaps. It also partners across sales, technical, product, and engineering teams to scale launches and shape future Search solutions.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Search AdvertisingClient Relationship BuildingExecutive Stakeholder InfluenceGoogle AdsAI-Powered BiddingPerformance MeasurementFinancial ServicesCross-Functional CollaborationSales Conversation Leadership

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience8+ Years Relevant Experience or 6+ With Advanced DegreeEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in digital media, sales, marketing, or product roles, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree.

  • Experience with search advertising.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in a client-facing role, with a track record of building long-term relationships and influencing complex decision-making processes with executive stakeholders (client and agency).

  • Advanced knowledge of Google Ads, AI-powered bidding solutions (e.g., AI Max, Performance Max), and performance channel measurement.

  • Understanding of the Financial Services industry.

  • Track record of working across cross-functional teams (Sales, Product, and Marketing) to drive unified goals.

  • Ability to lead challenging sales conversations that uncover opportunity, increase business, and build partnership.

About the job

Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on Google’s unparalleled advertising solutions to help them grow in today's dynamic marketing environment. You bring a passion for sales, knowledge of online media, and commitment to maximize customer success. You act like an owner, move with velocity through change, finding innovative and strategic ways to consistently deliver extraordinary and incremental outcomes for both Google and your customers. You build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering their business needs and translating them into powerful solutions to achieve their most ambitious goals. You achieve as a team with sellers, shape the future of advertising in the AI-era, and make a real impact on the millions of companies and billions of users that trust Google with their most important goals.

As a Performance Specialist in Financial Services, you will be the primary architect of Search growth for our largest partners, playing a critical role in the Total Opportunity Google will bring to grow ad customers' business. You will lead the evolution of Search, leveraging Google’s AI products and solutions to solve customer business challenges and unlock growth.

Google's Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams are strategic partners and industry thought leaders to the world's leading brands and agencies. We continuously challenge how customers think about their business and how Google can support growth. We focus on helping these players navigate profound industry shifts and drive outsized business performance by competitively selling Google's full suite of advertising solutions across Search, YouTube, Measurement, and more. As a member of our LCS team, you'll have the unique opportunity to sell at the forefront of technology, collaborating with executives, influencing market-shaping strategies, and delivering tangible results that significantly impact major global businesses and drive the growth of Google.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $124000 - $180000 (USD) + 60% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Drive impact for our largest ads customers by activating Google’s performance-centric solutions, including AI targeting and creatives (AI Max for Search, Performance Max), advanced bidding strategies, and demand-led budgets, tailored for large-scale ads customers.

  • Act as a trusted advisor to sales teams, ads customers, and agencies, translating complex performance data into actionable business insights and long-term roadmaps to improve Return on Investment (ROI).

  • Embrace challenger selling in a competitive environment, leading with Google’s “Best AI for the Best ROI” performance outlook.

  • Partner with front-line sales teams, internal technical teams, and other specialist experts to drive business outcomes for ads customers.

  • Test and scale new product launches, and partner with Product and Engineering teams to provide feedback from the Finance industry, influencing the next generation of Search solutions.

Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) .

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

How this job compares

Set against the 52,748 open Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$124–180K/yr
  • Illinois median$90–135K/yr1,131 salary ranges
  • US median$95–144K/yr25,419 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $152K, is 32% above the Illinois median midpoint ($115K) — in the middle half of Sales salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,890 open Sales jobs in Illinois and 52,748 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Sales postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 29,187 postings).
Education
10,287 of the 52,748 open Sales jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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