Responsibilities

• Owning day-to-day management and optimisation of Paid Search campaigns across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and associated display and performance formats
• Conducting daily account checks to identify issues and opportunities — acting on findings promptly before clients notice them
• Monitoring spend and performance against client KPIs — escalating risks early, never sitting on them
• Owning iGaming compliance for your accounts — ensuring all campaign activity, ad copy, and landing page requirements meet advertising regulations, responsible gambling requirements, and geo-targeting rules
• Managing day-to-day client communication across your portfolio — building trusted relationships and delivering performance reports with strategic commentary
• Working with the Senior Paid Search Manager to develop strategy plans for your clients and contributing to quarterly reviews
• Managing and developing up to two direct reports through regular 1-1s, work reviews, and constructive feedback
• Implementing AI-driven workflows across your accounts — monitoring impact on efficiency and sharing learnings with the team
• Contributing to paid search audits, new business proposals, and award entries
• Keeping Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising certifications current

Requirements

• 3+ years' experience in Paid Search advertising, preferably agency-side
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Ads — Search, Display, and Performance Max
• Google Ads certified — current and maintained
• Ability to manage client relationships independently — you prepare and deliver presentations with confidence
• Good campaign planning capabilities — budgeting, forecasting, and performance management across multiple accounts
• Willingness to line manage and develop junior team members
• Able to work autonomously and manage competing priorities without things slipping
• Numerate and analytically strong with clear verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable using AI tools to improve campaign efficiency and automate repeatable processes

Preferred

• Microsoft Advertising certified or actively working towards it
• Experience managing Paid Social campaigns or working knowledge of Meta Ads
• Familiarity with GA4, Looker Studio, or equivalent reporting tools
• Experience contributing to agency partner relationships with Google or Microsoft
• iGaming or regulated-sector experience — we’ll get you up to speed if not

Benefits

• Pay and Rewards That Reflect Your Work
• Competitive salaries benchmarked annually, a company bonus paid twice a year, enhanced pension contributions as your career develops, a Long-Term Incentive Plan, and generous referral bonuses. Good work gets rewarded here.
• Your Contribution, Recognised
• Monthly MVP Award (£100), Values Champion recognition (£25 plus a prize wheel spin up to £100), and an annual Player of the Season award (up to £250).
• Health and Wellbeing
• Free annual health checks, flu jabs, and eye tests. Access to mental health first aiders, confidential counselling sessions, a cycle-to-work scheme, and five paid sick days on top of SSP.
• Time That's Yours
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) rising to 30 with tenure, your birthday off, flexible working hours, hybrid and remote options, and two weeks working abroad. Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and work that fits around your life, not the other way around.
• A Team Worth Being Part Of
• Regular Lunch 'n' Learns, quarterly off-sites, monthly socials, two paid volunteering days, an annual charity partnership chosen by the team, and an AI Taskforce putting innovation in everyone's hands.