Paid Search Associate Partner

Location: Remote First / Hybrid (Manchester)

Type: Full-Time (5 days per week)

The Opportunity

Are you a hands-on search specialist who excels at turning strategy into flawless technical execution? Open Partners is looking for a Paid Search Associate Partner to own and drive the technical activation of our Paid Search vision for key clients. Acting as the crucial bridge between strategic planning and live performance, you will deploy campaigns seamlessly in line with best practices. Working alongside our Partners and wider team, you will master search platforms, eradicate inefficiencies, and deliver rapid, incremental, profitable growth for our clients.

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Flawless Campaign Execution: Turn product strategy into high-performance reality by executing Paid Search campaigns accurately and adhering strictly to Open Partners best practices.
• Performance Optimisation: Drive tangible client growth by continuously monitoring, testing, and refining campaigns to improve metrics across reach, response, and conversion.
• Quality Assurance & Pacing: Eradicate technical errors and budget inefficiencies through systematic quality assurance, platform mastery, and routine pacing checks.
• Technical Ownership: Act as a consummate platform specialist, taking complete ownership of live campaign delivery and execution.
• Actionable Reporting: Turn complex data into clear, client-ready narratives by delivering punctual reports that highlight actionable insights rather than just numbers.
• Co-Intelligent Delivery: Actively integrate AI tools into daily workflows to streamline delivery, automate repetitive tasks, and boost team productivity.
• Commercial Problem Solving: Connect technical execution to business value, using platform solutions to solve specific commercial challenges for clients.

What Success Looks Like in 6 Months

• Audit Excellence: You consistently achieve top scores across all internal best practice and quality audits.
• Zero-Error Delivery: You deploy campaigns 100 per cent error-free, on time, and fully aligned with agreed strategies to support client satisfaction and NPS.
• Co-Intelligent Output: You work seamlessly alongside AI tools to automate routine tasks, increasing speed and efficiency across daily operations.
• Punctual Reporting: You have established reliable, accurate routines for reporting, budget management, and performance commentary.

What You’ll Bring

• Platform Mastery: Expert-level hands-on capability in Paid Search platforms with a focus on technical precision and quality control.
• Analytical & Commercial Mindset: The ability to translate data into meaningful client narratives and use technical solutions to address commercial goals.
• Co-Intelligent Capability: Practical experience or strong willingness to adopt AI tools and automated workflows to optimise search campaigns.
• Pacing & Process Discipline: Exceptional attention to detail, maintaining zero-error execution while managing pacing and performance targets.
• Clear Communication: Confident communication skills to present clear, insight-driven reporting internally and to clients.

Our Values & Mindset

At Open Partners, we hire mindset first. It is the single biggest factor of success in our business, and we believe you can grow that mindset in any walk of life and career background. If you do not have direct industry experience but possess a fierce growth mindset and transferable technical skills, we want to hear from you. We hold ourselves to three simple standards:

• Smarter: Aim high, train hard, embrace next.
• Faster: Learn fast, adapt fast, act fast.
• Better: Think, say, and do what is best.

Ready to take your Paid Search career to the next level? Apply today!