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Justin Clarke
Senior Search Marketing Specialist with experience in search demand, technical execution, paid efficiency, and conversion. Practical work includes Search intent, Keyword research, Paid search, Landing-page conversion.
Experience
Uber
San Francisco · United States
Senior Search Marketing Specialist
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, audited technical SEO with Search Console coverage reports and crawl samples, tracing canonical conflicts and blocked product pages; checked index eligibility again after the routing fix.
- With responsibility for the review standard, compared search intent with content engagement in Google Analytics, consolidating overlapping pages and clarifying internal links; distinguished ranking changes from tracking or attribution changes.
- Grouped search terms by intent, separated brand and non-brand campaigns, and checked landing-page relevance against conversion data before changing bids or negative keywords.
- Owned a paid-search experiment using query-level analytics, reduced wasted campaign spend by 16% while preserving the qualified conversion-rate definition.
- Published SEM campaign-management rules using negative-keyword tests, resolved conflicting ad messaging and completed a landing-page tracking review.
HubSpot
Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States
Search Marketing Specialist
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Tested landing-page message and form depth across 9 high-spend groups; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, shortened the path from qualified interest to a decision.
- Audited campaign tracking before reporting results, reconciled duplicate conversions across channels, and explained how the attribution window limited the interpretation of return on spend.
- Compared campaign landing pages with the promise in each ad or content placement, corrected inconsistent offers and broken tracking links, and checked the conversion event from a new visitor’s session before resuming spend.
Selected project
Search Marketing (SEO/SEM) — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Rebuilt paid-search structure around intent and downstream qualified revenue; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Built a campaign measurement plan with synthetic spend and conversion records, stated the attribution window and exclusion rules, and checked how duplicate conversions changed the apparent return.
- Compared message variants against the same audience and offer, recorded the decision rule before reviewing results, and wrote a recommendation that distinguished a stronger signal from an inconclusive small sample.
- Owned the simulated campaign analysis using a fixed attribution window, resolved duplicated conversions and completed a sensitivity table separating channel mix from message effects.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Business Administration
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Financial accounting, statistics, operations management, organizational behavior
Skills
Role expertise
Search intent · Keyword research · Paid search · Landing-page conversion
Certifications
Google Ads Search Certification
Nov 2023
Publications
- Published an independent campaign note using synthetic funnel data, explaining audience selection, excluded traffic and why an observed conversion change alone does not establish causation.


