Search Marketing Specialist

Job Title: Paid Search Manager

Location: Fully Remote, (must be based in the UK)

Salary: £35-40k DOE - full-time

About Us:

Growth Gorilla helps fintechs & financial services brands grow without limits.

We help brands drive their user acquisition with data-driven paid campaigns, scroll-stopping influencer marketing and hard hitting performance creative.

Launched in 2017, we've worked with over 50 fintech and financial services brands - from VC backed start-ups and scale-ups to established, global, companies.

We're passionate about everything finance & growth...and we're looking for like-minded individuals to join our team.

(This role is approximately 70% Paid Search, 30% Paid Social campaign management.)

Role Overview:

This role is to be hands-on management of campaigns, not people management.

As a Paid Search Manager/Senior Executive, you will take ownership of paid search and some paid social campaign management, including strategy, execution, and ongoing optimisation. This customer-facing role involves direct communication with clients, ensuring measurable results and aligning campaigns with their business objectives.

You’ll also have the opportunity to collaborate with our creative and influencer teams to develop multi-channel, full-funnel campaigns for a variety of clients across the fintech and financial services sectors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assisting with the day-to-day management and execution of paid media (search/social/display) strategies for a portfolio of high-growth fintech clients.
• Planning & implementing and managing campaigns across Google, Bing, Meta, TikTok and a range of other platforms, forecasting media schedules and reporting on performance.
• Implementing campaign testing & analysing results, e.g. creative/ad copy, landing page & bid strategy testing, day-parting, keyword expansion, etc.
• Working with the wider team to develop campaigns, creative and drive results.
• Working directly with clients - building trust, relationships and representing Growth Gorilla.

Experience & skills:

• 3+ years experience in working on paid search & social campaigns.
• 3+ year(s) of experience working in an agency environment
• Experience of creating & developing campaigns across Google Ads, Meta Ads & TikTok Ads. Other platforms are desired but not essential.
• Experience in managing both web and app campaigns.
• Proficient in Google Analytics & Google Sheets/Excel and the ability to manipulate data.
• Strong copywriting skills to create engaging ad copy.

Other Responsibilities:

• Stay ahead of trends and innovations in growth marketing, paid media, influencer marketing, and performance creative.
• Proactively introduce new ideas, creative-testing strategies, and market-leading initiatives that help clients grow and differentiate themselves in the market.
• Contribute to agency growth by supporting the pitching process for new business and creating compelling proposals.

Why Join Growth Gorilla?

• Join a fast-growing growth marketing agency with a focus on fintech and financial services.
• Enjoy a flexible remote work environment and competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses.
• Be part of a collaborative team that values innovation, client success, and continuous improvement.

What We Offer:

• Career advancement, learning opportunities and direct input into building the culture and processes of the business.
• 24 days of holiday, plus birthdays and bank holidays.
• Full remote working - work from home (or on the beach!)
• Continuous training and personal development across both technical and business skills.
• Regular team events across the UK

Why work with us?

If you’re reading this, it is likely that you have some experience in managing campaigns, hopefully... So before you read on and find out what we need from you, we thought we’d tell you a bit about who we are and why you should want to work with us.

We put our team first

Our team is more important than our profits. Don’t get us wrong, we love profit, but we also love seeing smiling faces on our calls.

We don’t work with a$$holes

Clients or colleagues. No ifs, no butts (pun intended) no maybes. We’ve built a team on mutual respect and we don’t hire anyone that doesn’t agree.

We are inclusive

We’re ourselves, so you should be too. Our culture supports our diversity. We embrace our differences and want our team to feel comfortable in the skin they’re in.

Everyone has a voice

We don’t believe in hierarchy. We make sure everyone’s ideas and opinions are heard, considered and respected.

We support our team

We focus on creating an environment where our team can thrive in their career. We offer support, mentorship and anything they need to get them to where they want to go.

We’re fully remote

You can work from the beach, the sofa or the toilet. We don’t care as long as you’re getting your work done... and not joining video calls from the loo.