PPC Manager Career Guide UK
A PPC manager owns the search results channel as a demand engine: the paid slots where a business buys visibility at the exact moment a customer is searching for what they sell. That means owning the Google Ads account (and usually the Microsoft/Bing one too) end to end — the campaign architecture, the keywords, the ad copy, the bidding, the product feeds for Shopping and Performance Max, the tracking, and the story you tell the business about what the spend returned, in conversions, cost per lead or return on ad spend. The work sits closer to the money than most marketing jobs: campaigns are visible daily, results are visible within days, and when the numbers move, the explanation is expected in the next meeting.
The same headline covers a range of posts. At an agency it might mean a portfolio of client accounts across several industries; at an in-house e-commerce brand it might mean Shopping and Performance Max campaigns feeding a shop; at a B2B company it might mean search campaigns feeding a sales pipeline, with the manager sitting on sales calls to find the next keywords. This guide explains what the role actually involves in UK practice — the day-to-day craft, what employers look for, the realistic routes in, and where the career goes next.
What a PPC manager is
At its core, the job is to turn search demand into customers or leads at an acceptable cost. The role blends three activities: strategy (where the budget should sit across campaign types, what to test, when to scale), optimisation (the daily and weekly work of improving live accounts — keywords, negatives, bids, copy, pacing), and accountability (reporting the results in business terms and defending the channel when spend underperforms).
The balance of those shifts with seniority and company size. A first manager seat at a lean company is usually still largely hands-on: you’re in the ad accounts most of the day, building and adjusting campaigns yourself. A senior lead at a larger organisation — one that line-manages a couple of search specialists, for instance — spends more of the time on quarterly planning, budget allocation, managing the agency partner or Google account manager, and holding the account to a standard, even when the advert still says “hands-on experience required”.
A title used across several seats
Job adverts reach for the same chair in different ways. Common variants include PPC manager, paid search manager, SEM manager, Google Ads manager and search specialist. The core — paid search strategy and delivery for a business — is the same; what changes is scope. Some posts are pure Google Search; some span Shopping, Performance Max, Demand Gen, Display and YouTube within the Google ecosystem; a few add Microsoft/Bing or even app campaigns and Apple Search Ads. Read the advert’s channel list to place the post accurately, because “PPC manager” at a five-person agency and “paid search lead” at a digital health platform are different jobs wearing similar titles.
What the work actually looks like
Here are the workstreams behind a typical UK paid search role, with a sense of what each involves in practice.
Account structure and campaign architecture
This is the foundation of the craft. You decide how the account is organised — which campaign types run (brand, non-brand search, Shopping, Performance Max, Demand Gen), how the budget splits across them, how audiences and locations are layered, and where remarketing fits. Well-structured accounts are legible: every campaign has a job, every budget decision is traceable, and new team members can find their way around them. Employers consistently ask for the ability to build and restructure accounts — not just inherit a tidy one — because a restructure is often the cheapest way to fix a struggling account.
Keywords, search terms and negatives
Paid search is intent-led, which means the keyword is the unit of the job. That covers researching what customers actually type (search term reports, competitor research, insight from sales), choosing match types deliberately, and — a task in nearly every advert — the ongoing discipline of negative keywords: reading the search terms list, cutting irrelevant traffic, and keeping the keyword structure clean and scalable. It’s unglamorous, high-impact work; a strong negatives list quietly lowers cost per click and raises conversion rate across the whole account.
Ad copy and what happens to it in the auction
Writing ad copy that matches search intent, testing headlines and descriptions against each other, and keeping assets (the old “extensions” — sitelinks, callouts, images, structured snippets) current. Copy matters twice over: it drives the click, and it feeds Quality Score and ad rank, which determine both your position and what you pay for it. Several employers frame it exactly that way — strong PPC copywriting is a named skill because you understand how the words affect CTR, Quality Score and conversion, not just because you can write well.
Bidding strategy, budget and pacing
With Google’s automated bidding doing much of the optimising that manual bids used to handle, the manager’s job has moved up the stack: setting the bidding strategy (target CPA, target ROAS, maximising conversions subject to constraints), understanding how Smart Bidding and Performance Max actually make decisions, and then governing them — setting the business inputs (margins, cost ceilings, seasonality) and checking that the automation is behaving. Pacing is the day-to-day version of the same problem: spending enough to gather data, not so much that you burn budget on a bad day, and keeping spend on plan through month-end and trading peaks.
Shopping, Performance Max and product feeds
In e-commerce and CPG roles this is often the centre of gravity. Shopping and Performance Max campaigns live or die on the product feed — titles, attributes, availability, pricing — so feed hygiene is a genuine part of the job: spotting broken feeds, improving them, and coordinating with the e-commerce team when product data changes. Performance Max also means working with the platform’s automation more closely: structuring the signals (audiences, assets, conversion values) so the system has something sensible to work with.
Landing pages and the CRO hand-off
Ads earn the click; the page earns the customer. A PPC manager reads landing page performance (bounce rate, conversion rate, where people drop off), writes the briefs for page changes, partners with developers and designers to get them shipped, and reviews CRO tests — headlines, forms, calls to action, product information — against campaign performance. In many jobs the CRO work itself sits with a dedicated person or team; your job is to make sure the hand-off is sharp and that page improvements are measured against the traffic you’re paying for.
Measurement, tracking and reporting
Every serious role has a measurement thread: conversion tracking set up and verified (GA4, tag manager, platform conversion actions), data quality checked so the numbers you report are actually true, and a reporting story that connects platform performance to the business — cost per lead, cost per acquisition, revenue, return on ad spend. In B2B the conversation extends to lead quality as seen by the sales team; in e-commerce it extends to unit economics — acquisition cost against order value, margin and repeat purchase. You’ll also be honest about the limits: platform attribution narrows what last-click numbers can tell you, and senior posts increasingly expect you to test for incrementality rather than assume it.
Scripts, feeds and tooling where they appear
You don’t need to be a developer, but a useful share of roles sit in the territory where the platform’s native tools aren’t enough: bulk campaign editing through Google Ads Editor, multi-account management and standardised reporting through a tool like SA360 or Looker Studio, budget rules and alerts, and — at the more technical end — Scripts or API-level fixes to tracking. If a post mentions any of these, it’s telling you the account is large enough for the manual work to stop being sensible.
Staying ahead of the platform
The Google ecosystem changes constantly — new campaign types, bidding updates, policy shifts, AI features rolling out to ads. The role includes reading what’s changed, deciding what to test, preparing for what’s coming, and in larger in-house setups, working with your Google account manager to access betas and escalate issues. This is one of the reasons the skill decays fast if you stop practising it — and one of the reasons employers test candidates on current platform behaviour, not the version they used three years ago.
A PPC manager’s day and week
Days vary with the trading calendar and which accounts you own, but a composite picture from typical UK posts looks something like this:
- First hour: checking overnight performance — spend pacing, cost per result, any disapproved ads, broken conversions or feed errors — and acting on anything that needs a decision before the day’s spend accumulates.
- Mid-morning: the account work itself — reviewing search terms, adding negatives, adjusting budgets or bids, launching or reworking campaigns, and briefing the next testing wave.
- Midday: the people work — a call with the sales or growth team on lead quality and what they’re hearing, a working session with the agency or creative partner, or a stakeholder meeting where you defend the channel’s return or agree next quarter’s split.
- Afternoon: the build and analysis work — setting up a new campaign structure, fixing tracking, pulling the weekly report with your recommendations attached, or running a landing page test readout with the CRO or web team.
- Ongoing: the platform treadmill — what’s changed on Google or Bing this week, and what’s worth testing versus ignoring.
The weekly rhythm is built around the account review and the testing pipeline; the monthly one around budget re-allocation and the leadership report; the quarterly one around the bigger decisions — where next quarter’s money should sit, what to grow, what to retire. Around trading peaks — Black Friday for a retailer, the gift season for a gifting brand — the whole tempo speeds up, and the peak is planned weeks ahead.
Agency or in-house: a career that runs through both
Both sides of the market hire paid search managers constantly, and the two sides prepare you for different instincts.
Agency paid search roles — at network firms, specialist PPC shops and a long tail of boutique agencies — put you across multiple clients at once. You see different markets, categories and account sizes in a single week, you learn the full lifecycle of a paid search account, and you build the client-facing skill of explaining results to people who can switch suppliers. You’ll often work alongside a team of executives, and the reporting cadence is client-driven: weekly updates, monthly business reviews, quarterly strategy. The trade-offs are the usual agency ones — client service pressure, work to brief, and less depth in any one product.
In-house roles give you one product, one customer base and one commercial model to understand deeply. You sit next to the business’s economics — margins, average order value, what a customer is worth, how sales qualify your leads — and most posts expect you to partner with product, data, finance and CRO teams rather than with a client. Many in-house teams still buy execution from an agency — so even here you need the skill of managing an external partner to a standard, holding them to SLAs and pushing them on new tactics and beta features. In regulated sectors — healthcare, financial services — in-house paid search adds a compliance layer: ad claims, targeting and tracking all have to work inside industry rules, and working inside those approvals workflows is a genuine differentiator.
There’s no single correct order, but a pattern shows up repeatedly: a couple of years of execution — agency or in-house — building real depth; then a seat where the product and the commercial stakes matter to you; then a choice between going deeper on search or wider into managing the whole paid mix.
PPC manager versus the roles next to it
The job market uses a crowd of similar titles, and the differences only become clear once you see the work from the inside.
PPC manager vs performance marketing manager
The performance marketing manager is the wider seat: paid search as one lane in a paid portfolio that also covers paid social, video and often programmatic. A PPC manager goes deep on the search lane itself — Google Ads in depth, campaign architecture, keywords, bids, Shopping and Performance Max, search terms hygiene. A performance marketing manager may come from exactly that background; ‘PPC manager’ is a defensible route in, and ‘performance marketing manager’ is the wider seat.
PPC manager vs media buyer / media planner
Media buyers and planners sit where the buying is still negotiated — display, programmatic, CTV and offline media — planning reach and frequency and negotiating rates across the media mix. A PPC manager owns one channel in depth, the search account: the keywords, the copy, the bids, the testing, the feed. Because search buying is self-serve on the platform, the ‘buyer’ skill has mostly folded into paid search campaign management — though feed management and Shopping still demand the same discipline a planner brings to any media.
PPC manager vs digital marketing manager
A digital marketing manager treats paid search as one lever among several — alongside paid social, email, organic search and the website — and is judged on the whole digital mix working together. A PPC manager goes deep on that one channel: the account, the auction, the bids, the attribution underneath it. In a small team the two jobs overlap heavily; in a larger one the search seat sits alongside the wider digital function.
PPC manager vs SEO manager
An SEO manager owns organic search in depth; a PPC manager owns paid search in depth. In real jobs the two are constant neighbours: the paid side’s data — which keywords and messages actually convert — feeds the organic side’s content and landing page priorities, while better landing pages lift the paid side’s Quality Score. And in the budget conversation they compete for the same search demand, so the pairs who work well together argue about what actually works, measured against the same numbers. If you enjoy one of the two, the other is the fastest-adjacent specialism there is.
PPC manager vs paid social manager
The mirror job: a paid social manager owns the social platforms — Meta, TikTok, and often LinkedIn — with creative and audience testing as the primary levers, on a system that has become heavily creative-led. The two channels share the paid discipline — budgets, pacing, tracking, testing — but the levers differ enough that several organisations run them as separate seats. If a role’s advert is all ‘creative strategy’, ‘hooks’ and ‘UGC’, it’s a paid social job wearing a paid title; read the channel list before you apply.
One warning that carries across all of them: the title in a job advert is not a scope statement. Judge each post by the channels it names, the measurement it expects, whether it wants hands-on skills or team leadership, and how it describes the commercial target.
What a PPC manager gets hired by
UK vacancies put this chair in a familiar set of settings, and the shape of the job shifts with the employer.
- E-commerce and CPG — the most common home: Shopping and Performance Max campaigns for a shop or catalogue, judged on new customers, order value and return on ad spend. You’ll work alongside e-commerce, brand and retention teams, and around a trading calendar with hard peaks.
- B2B SaaS and technology — search campaigns feeding a pipeline: non-brand Search, Demand Gen, and increasingly AI-assist surfaces; the manager works with sales on what a qualified lead looks like and is judged on cost per qualified lead and lead quality as perceived by the sales team.
- Professional and high-ticket services — agencies, consultancies and businesses selling services to commercial clients, where the job is high-intent commercial keyword research, long sales cycles, and lead quality that matters more than lead volume.
- Retail — brand and non-brand acquisition at scale, often with retail media or marketplace activity in the wider mix.
- Agency PPC teams — specialist search boutiques and the paid search desks of larger digital agencies, delivering the same craft for a book of client accounts.
Whatever the setting, the expectation that recurs across posts is commercial fluency: you’re not managing impressions, you’re managing a budget against a business outcome — customers, leads or revenue — and you’re expected to explain the return in the business’s own terms.
What employers actually ask for
The core skills
- Paid platform fluency — confident hands-on use of Google Ads is the near-universal requirement; Microsoft/Bing Ads appears regularly, and e-commerce roles add Google Merchant Center, Shopping and Performance Max in depth.
- Campaign structure and optimisation — building accounts cleanly, reading what’s happening inside them, and improving them continuously rather than setting-and-forgetting.
- Keyword and search-term discipline — research, match types, and the relentless negative-keyword hygiene that keeps spend efficient.
- Testing methodology — a structured approach to copy, audience and bid testing: hypothesis, what you’ll measure, how you’ll judge it, and the discipline to kill what isn’t working.
- Data and reporting literacy — reading GA4, Looker Studio and the platform reports well enough to trust them, spot breakage, and explain the results to non-marketers.
- Commercial thinking — understanding what a customer or lead is worth to the business, and connecting spend to revenue, margin and repeat behaviour rather than platform metrics alone.
- Stakeholder management — running the creative, web and agency partners who deliver the work, and presenting recommendations that senior people can act on.
Specialist skills (not universal, but valued where they appear)
- Automation and scale tooling — SA360, Google Ads Editor, Scripts or API work on large multi-account setups.
- Feed engineering — product feed strategy and hygiene for Shopping and Performance Max at scale.
- Advanced tracking — tag manager depth, conversion API setups, server-side tracking, and an honest understanding of where attribution breaks down.
- Incrementality testing — testing whether the spend genuinely causes growth, not just claiming it.
- App campaigns — Google App Campaigns and Apple Search Ads where the product lives on mobile.
- Regulated-industry compliance — working inside healthcare, financial or iGaming advertising rules, and naming the approvals that go with them.
The tools you’ll be expected to know
None of these are exam subjects — employers want working familiarity:
- Advertising platforms: Google Ads (Search, Shopping, Performance Max, and increasingly Demand Gen and Display) is the constant; Microsoft Ads appears in a real share of posts; LinkedIn or TikTok appear where the paid mix is broader than search.
- Measurement: GA4 and Google Tag Manager are the most frequently named pair, alongside Google Search Console where the role touches organic-adjacent decisions.
- Reporting and scale: spreadsheets and Looker Studio are standard; SA360 or a similar suite appears in agency and multi-account environments.
- CRM and lifecycle: where the leads go next — HubSpot, Salesforce or the company’s own system — and the expectation that campaigns connect to the downstream journey, not that you administer the tool.
Worth noting: no employer expects the whole stack. Match your evidence to the channels and tools the advert actually names, and don’t let the absence of one specialist tool hold you back on a role that doesn’t run it.
The experience expectation
Most manager-level posts ask for three to five years of hands-on paid search experience, with senior and lead seats asking for five or more, almost always with a record of managing real budgets. The consistent sub-requirement in the best adverts is the track record in your own words: the account you scaled, the cost per conversion you brought down, the restructure you ran — and what it was worth in business terms. A strong application tells that story with numbers (scale, action, result, commercial consequence); a weak one lists platforms and hopes the reader infers it.
Qualifications and routes into the role
Good news for your CV: this is one of the marketing roles where demonstrable skill and a track record consistently outweigh formal qualifications. Most UK paid search job adverts don’t require a degree, and the ones that mention education treat it as useful rather than essential.
Degrees
A marketing, business or digital marketing degree is common among people in these roles, and a numerate subject — mathematics, statistics, the sciences — maps well onto the analytical side. But the route is explicitly open without one: agencies, bootcamps of all sorts, self-taught practitioners with a portfolio of real campaigns, and people moving across from adjacent disciplines all fill these seats. Prospects notes that PPC teams commonly include degree backgrounds as varied as English, physics, music, maths and engineering — the subject isn’t the point; the analytical and commercial aptitude is.
Platform certifications
The most relevant credentialing is the manufacturers’ own. Google runs a stack of free certifications through Skillshop (Search, Shopping, Display, YouTube and measurement), and Microsoft, Meta and other platforms run their own. Several UK guides present them as the recommended starting point, and job adverts — from boutique agencies to in-house teams — list Google Ads certification as advantageous. They’re free, fast and a sensible thing to have on your CV. They’re also widely treated as table stakes rather than differentiators: the certificate proves you know the vocabulary, but what gets you hired is the record of accounts you’ve run and results you can explain.
Professional qualifications
The IPA — the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising — runs a Digital Performance certificate aimed squarely at paid media practitioners, and the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Data & Marketing run broader marketing ladders that a paid search career can sit inside. None is a formal entry requirement, but each is a credible answer to “how are you developing yourself,” and the IPA is also a networking route into the industry’s hiring conversations.
The practical self-taught route
A recurring theme in UK career advice for paid search specifically: the strongest early applications are the ones that show you’ve run something. That might be a small real budget you’ve managed for a friend’s business, a local charity or a campaign you launched for yourself — with the targeting, the results, and what you changed along the way. Certifications show you know the vocabulary; a small real campaign shows you can use it.
Typical routes in
- Up the lane: the classic path is PPC executive or paid search specialist — agency or in-house — building depth on keywords, structure and bidding while supporting senior colleagues, then the first seat where you own the account and its results. UK agencies run this feed explicitly, with junior and trainee search roles designed to graduate into the manager seat.
- Across from digital marketing: plenty of PPC managers arrive from digital marketing executive roles where paid was one of several channels, and then deliberately narrowed into search once they found the lane that fit. That cross-channel fluency — email, content, organic — genuinely helps later, when the search job has to connect to the rest of the funnel.
- Across from SEO: the two disciplines share the search landscape, and SEO specialists crossing into paid search are a real feeder into the role. The keyword thinking transfers directly, the landing page literacy arrives with you, and the difference — the auction, the bids, the instant feedback — is learned on the job.
- Direct, with evidence: the less common but genuine route of a career changer or self-taught practitioner with a portfolio of real campaigns and platform certifications behind them — hireable in leaner teams and agencies where the proof is the work.
Where the career goes next
The standard ladder above a PPC manager runs: senior PPC/senior paid search manager → performance marketing manager (or head of paid search) → director-level paid or growth. Several UK descriptions put it plainly: the paid search manager is a stepping stone to broader performance leadership — the performance marketing manager who owns the whole paid mix, or the head of paid search who owns the function. In agencies the ladder runs through client services as well, with account and client leadership opening as you grow.
What typically unlocks the next step up:
- Owning a budget with a clear, defensible answer for its return
- A testing and measurement practice others in the business rely on
- Evidence you can connect paid search to downstream economics (lead quality, LTV, payback)
- The ability to brief and hold creative, web and agency partners to a standard
- Presenting strategy and results to senior stakeholders — including the bad news, clearly
Off the main ladder, the role opens several lateral doors that a lot of people find more interesting than going straight up:
- The performance marketing track — widening from search to the whole paid portfolio (paid social, video, programmatic). This is the most commonly cited next step and uses nearly everything the search seat taught you.
- The growth and e-commerce track — roles around the whole conversion stack: CRO, feeds, marketplaces, the shop itself. For the e-commerce-skilled, this is often the natural extension.
- The analytics and insight track — for the data-led, marketing analytics, attribution or measurement roles, where the channel expertise becomes the context for the numbers.
- Agency leadership and entrepreneurship — a portfolio of delivered paid search work supports a move into running an agency team, or the freelance and contract market for experienced PPC managers, which is real in the UK. A track record in agency delivery or of owned accounts at scale is the currency either way.
The common thread: the further you go, the less of the day is in the ad accounts and the more of it is about where the money should go next, what the numbers actually mean for the business, and getting the people around you to perform.
Practical advice for candidates
A few of the things that separate strong applications and interviews from the rest, drawn from what UK employers are actually asking for.
Lead with numbers, always. Not “managed Google Ads campaigns” but “restructured the non-brand account; brought cost per qualified lead down over a quarter through negatives and bid strategy; scaled the channel while holding the efficiency target”. Scale, action, result, commercial consequence — in that order.
Be current. The platform moves, and interviewers in this lane test on current behaviour — how Performance Max actually allocates, how automated bidding reads your inputs, what a recent policy change means for the account. Staying on top of platform news is part of the job, and it shows in the interview.
Show the hand-off skills, not just the account skills. The job extends beyond the ad account: landing pages, feeds, tracking, the agency, the data team. Be able to describe a working relationship — how you briefed a web team on page changes, how you held an agency to a standard, how you fixed a tracking problem with a developer.
Have a view on measurement limits. Interviewers will test whether you understand what you can and can’t see. A candidate who can say “here’s what the platform reports, here’s the limit, here’s how I’d test incrementally” will sound more senior than one who only recites last-click numbers.
Match the advert’s flavour. A post that’s pure Google Shopping and Performance Max wants a different story than one that’s non-brand B2B search feeding a pipeline. Read the channel list and the commercial target before you apply, and organise your examples around what that role actually is.
Read the advert before you apply — seriously. The channels named, the measurement expected, whether it’s hands-on or leadership, and how the commercial target is described will tell you if the post is a fit. A “PPC manager” post that’s really a multi-channel paid mix is a different career conversation from a “paid search lead” post that’s really an agency book of clients.
Candidate questions, answered
Do I need a degree to get into paid search? It helps and it’s common, but it isn’t a gate. Most UK paid search job adverts don’t require one, and agencies, in-house teams alike hire on demonstrated skill: platform knowledge, a track record of real campaigns, and commercial sense. A degree in a marketing or numerate subject is a solid foundation; a degree in almost anything else is fine where the experience fits; and no degree at all is a workable route where you can show you’ve run the work.
Should I learn SEO or PPC first? They share the same search landscape, and each makes the other better — paid data tells you what to optimise organically, and organic literacy makes you a better paid search manager. The deciding factor is temperament and timeline: if you want fast, visible feedback and like working in numbers, paid search’s instant loop suits you; if you like longer-horizon, content and detective-style work, SEO suits you. Start with the one that matches how you work, get genuinely good at it, and the other becomes an add-on rather than a gamble.
Is this a good role for a recent graduate? Usually it’s the second seat, not the first — the realistic first seat is a digital marketing executive or junior PPC specialist where you build the platform and analytical foundation. That said, a strong applicant with real evidence — a small budget you’ve run, platform certifications, a working command of GA4 and tag manager — can land a junior search seat earlier, especially in leaner teams and agency pipelines.
How technical is the role, really? More technical than most marketing jobs, less technical than a development job. You’ll work comfortably in the platform, understand how tracking and tags work, read analytics deeply, and — in a growing number of roles — touch bulk editing tools, feeds and reporting dashboards. Scripts and APIs appear where accounts are large enough to justify them; they’re specialist value, not a universal requirement.
Do I need Microsoft/Bing Ads or other platforms on my CV? If the role names them, yes — employers in this lane check the channel list carefully. Google Ads is the constant; Bing appears in a meaningful share of posts and is a reasonable first “second platform”; anything else (LinkedIn, TikTok, app campaigns) is lane-specific evidence. If you only have Google depth, lean into it and be straight about which platforms you’d pick up — and how fast.
How much agency experience should I have before going in-house (or vice versa)? Neither order is wrong. Agency builds breadth across clients, verticals and account sizes; in-house builds depth in one product and its economics. What’s consistent is that the seat you move out of needs to have given you real ownership of accounts and results — whether that came in one place or several.
Can I do this role remotely? More than in most marketing lanes. A meaningful share of UK paid search vacancies are hybrid or fully remote, and the work — platform, dashboards, client calls — is largely location-independent. The practical constraints are the ones that always apply: agencies running live client work often expect office presence for collaboration, and some in-house roles tied to a trading business will ask for more days on site. Check the location line, and read the responsibilities.
Is performance max replacing the “real” PPC work? It’s absorbing a lot of the tactical work that manual bidding used to cover, which is exactly why the role is shifting up-stack: strategy, account architecture, feed and signal quality, governing the automation, and honest measurement. The jobs that survive automation are the ones that understand what the automation is actually doing — the adverts that still get written in 2026, and beyond, ask for exactly that.
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Whatever stage you’re at, the single most useful thing you can do this week is write, in one clear paragraph, the story of the best paid search work you’ve done — what the objective was, what you ran and tested, and what it was worth in business terms. Every interview in this career starts from that paragraph.