Responsibilities

• Owning and developing senior client relationships, acting as the strategic lead on your accounts
• Leading paid search strategy and activation, and setting the standard for search across the agency
• Building paid media strategies tied to clients' commercial outcomes – revenue, CAC, LTV and ROAS – not just platform metrics
• Staying close to activation: set-up, management and optimisation across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and our other paid platforms
• Diagnosing performance problems and solving them by pulling the right levers, rather than defaulting to standard best practice
• Leading continuous, rigorous test & learn programmes, and reading the results properly
• Managing, mentoring and coaching team members from account executive to manager level, and raising search expertise across the wider team
• Presenting insight and recommendations to senior client stakeholders
• Identifying new growth opportunities for clients and for our agency approach in paid media
• Supporting cross-channel strategies spanning paid social, display, app marketing and on-site experience

Requirements

• Advanced, recent, hands-on paid search experience across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and Search Ads 360 – you'll be the person the team comes to for search
• Deep working knowledge of Shopping, Performance Max, feed management, bidding strategies, match types and search experiments
• 5+ years' experience in paid media or digital marketing
• Experience owning client relationships at a senior level, with the presence to lead conversations with senior stakeholders
• A commercial mindset: you connect media performance to revenue, CAC, LTV and ROAS
• A problem-solver's approach – you can explain the levers you pulled and why, not just the best practice you followed
• Experience managing and coaching people from executive to manager level, and confidence training others
• Strong analytical skills (everyone in our team sits somewhere on the scale from great at analytics to world-class data scientist)
• Excellent communication skills – we're over 80% client-facing

Preferred

• - Programmatic experience – DSPs, partners, DOOH and audio
• - Martech knowledge – CM360, tracking and tagging, server-side
• - Exposure to CRO and CRM
• - E-commerce or DTC experience, including Shopping and feed-led growth

Benefits

• A certified Sunday Times Best Places to Work in the UK, 2026
• Best of both worlds: work in blue-chip companies' marketing teams and in a fast-growth agency at the same time
• Accelerated learning and development, with training through courses, mentoring and hands-on execution
• Clear career development path and salary progression
• A brilliant Covent Garden office spread over three floors, with our own cocktail bar & roof terrace, great coffee and an array of restaurants on the doorstep
• Flexible working, including work-from-abroad allowance
• Subsidised gym & sports memberships
• Regular team lunches, socials, charity days and sporting activities
• A competitive salary with twice-yearly bonus