Responsibilities

• Creating, managing, and optimising paid search campaigns across Google Ads — always with a sharp eye on performance against KPIs
• Owning day-to-day client communication across your portfolio — building trusted relationships and providing strategic advice, not just reporting numbers
• Developing paid search strategy plans in collaboration with the Head of Paid Media — contributing your own thinking at every stage
• Conducting daily account checks to identify issues and opportunities before clients do
• Managing and developing up to two direct reports — supporting their growth through regular 1-1s, constructive feedback, and hands-on guidance
• Ensuring paid search best practices are implemented consistently across all managed campaigns and by your direct reports
• Liaising with Google and Microsoft strategists to stay ahead of platform developments and maximise account performance
• Using AI tooling to improve campaign efficiency and automate repeatable processes
• Contributing to new business proposals, paid search audits, and award entries
• Keeping Google Ads certification current

Requirements

• 3+ years\' paid search experience, ideally agency-side, with proven results managing Google Ads at scale
• Strong campaign creation and optimisation experience — you know what good looks like and you can prove it
• Google Ads certified — current and maintained
• Strong client relationship management skills — you present with confidence and handle difficult conversations without escalating everything
• Solid campaign planning capabilities — budgeting, forecasting, and performance management across multiple accounts simultaneously
• Experience managing or mentoring direct reports — you\'ve developed people, not just worked alongside them
• Commercially minded and analytically strong — you work with data confidently and translate it into clear strategic recommendations
• Comfortable using AI tooling to improve campaign efficiency and workflow automation

Preferred

• iGaming or regulated-sector experience — we\'ll get you up to speed if not
• Microsoft Ads certified or actively working towards it
• Experience liaising directly with Google or Microsoft platform partners
• Contribution to new business proposals, audits, or award entries
• Experience training others internally on paid search best practices

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). Weekly shout-outs and appreciation from colleagues and managers are just part of how we work.
• 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. We take looking after our people seriously.
• 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. We\'re building something together — and that should feel like it.