Paid Search Specialist

Auctionet is a marketplace where auction houses from Sweden, Great Britain, Finland, Spain, Germany, and Denmark sell furniture, art, design objects, collectibles, and much more. We are now looking for a Paid Search Specialist who wants to be part of our team and contribute to making paid search one of our sharpest growth levers, for Auctionet and for the auction houses we work with.

About the Role

We offer a role for someone at the start of their marketing career, where you work hands-on in Google Ads every day, close to our performance and marketing specialists. You will split your time roughly evenly between the auction houses we serve through our in-house agency and Auctionet's own brand, and see how paid search turns search demand into bidders, consignments and valuation leads. We are looking for someone who enjoys the details of Google Ads, likes finding the story in the numbers and wants to grow into a broader performance role.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Setting up and managing Google Ads campaigns for auction houses, from brief and keyword research to launch, optimisation and a clear monthly reports

• Running and developing Auctionet's own Google Ads accounts, with Sweden as our main market today and support for the UK as it grows

• Working with keyword research, account structure, negative keywords, bidding strategies and budget pacing, within the budgets and priorities set with the team

• Writing and testing ad copy and assets, and working with Content and Design to improve the landing pages paid search sends traffic to

• Making sure conversion tracking is correct and complete, together with Data & Analytics and Tech

• Following up results weekly against agreed KPIs

• Keeping up with changes in Google Ads, automation and AI-driven search, and bringing new ideas and tests to the team

This role is based at our HQ in Stockholm, with the possibility to work remotely one day per week.

About the Team

You will join our Marketing team and report to our CMO. You will work closely with our performance and marketing specialists, and together with Content, Design, Data & Analytics and Tech, to make paid search and paid social one shared performance picture.

Auctionet has around 170 employees and is the parent company of a wider group with approximately 400 colleagues across multiple countries. Our main office is near Östermalmstorg in central Stockholm, with logistics centers in Malmö, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Westbury, and Cologne.

About You

You're someone who's curious, numbers-minded and structured, with your first experience of Google Ads behind you and plenty of room to grow. You take ownership of your work, keep track of many details at once and like turning data into concrete improvements week by week.

To succeed in this role, we think you have:

• Hands-on experience running Google Ads campaigns, especially search

• Experience managing several accounts in parallel, ideally from an agency, and explaining results to clients in plain language

• A solid understanding of GA4 and conversion tracking

• Strong analytical skills and comfort working in spreadsheets

• A habit of using AI as an everyday working tool for research, copy and analysis, with good judgement about what to trust

• The ability to write short, sharp ad copy in Swedish and English

Bonus and not mandatory:

• Experience with Performance Max, YouTube or Demand Gen

• Familiarity with Google Tag Manager and Looker Studio, or a Google Ads certification

• An interest in auctions, design, art or vintage

Our Recruitment Process

We have a straightforward process without unpleasant surprises.

We'll start off with a short phone interview just to get a feeling if we could be right for each other or not.

We then have a few meetings (usually one or two) where we talk about you, the role and Auctionet - and you get the chance to talk to the people you will work closely with. In the process, we will also ask you to do a small take-home exercise. And in the end, we hope it feels like the perfect fit for both of us!

Apply By

We will be reviewing applications continuously, but please submit your application no later than 8 november.

Who We Are

Auctionet was founded in 2011 by a team of people with unique experience of online auctions. Read more about Auctionet here.

In 2021 Auctionet acquired the auction house Stockholms Auktionsverk, and we are now by far the largest auction marketplace in the Nordics, and one of the larger auction marketplaces in the world. With this acquisition, Auctionet owns and operates both the oldest auction house in the world (1674) and the second oldest (1681), which means we have been working with sustainability for 350(!) years.

Join us in our vision to make valued objects accessible for everyone, from everywhere!