Head of Organic Social & Influencer - Senior Partner (Maternity Cover)

Location: Manchester & Hybrid (with in-office collaborative days as needed)

Type: Full-Time, Fixed-Term (Maternity Cover)

The Opportunity

Are you a visionary leader in Organic Social and Influencer marketing who thrives on driving growth through the intersection of media, creative, and data?

Open Partners is looking for a Head of Organic Social & Influencer - Senior Partner to join us as maternity cover and take commercial and strategic ownership of this core product. In this high-impact role, you will act as the ultimate internal and external champion for Organic Social, leading a high-performing team to build best-in-class social, community, and creator strategies that drive rapid, profitable growth for our clients.

Your Role & Responsibilities

You will lead product development, drive commercial performance, and elevate our capabilities across the Open Partners Operating System:

Commercial Growth & Revenue Ownership: Generate revenue growth for Open Partners and our clients, ensuring your product hits commercial targets while maintaining strong functional margins.

Strategic Governance & Excellence: Define and embed best practices across a market-leading operational system for planning and activating Organic Social and Influencer campaigns.

Cross-Platform Integration: Collaborate across our Media, Creative, and Data products to deliver cohesive, cross-platform strategies that prove clear impact on reach, response, and conversion.

Client & Market Advocacy: Build trusted relationships with clients and partners as an indispensable growth partner, while evangelising our capabilities to the wider market to win new business.

AI & Co-Intelligence Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing team using a gold-standard AI and human workforce, driving automation so your team can focus on high-value strategic work.

What Success Looks Like

Strong Commercial Performance: You maintain strong product profitability and drive revenue growth across your portfolio.

High Client Retention & NPS: You deliver exceptional client satisfaction, keeping client retention and NPS scores consistently high.

Continuous Product Innovation: You actively evolve and innovate our product offerings, ensuring they are clearly understood and valued by clients, partners, and internal teams.

Validated Operational Standards: You successfully embed best-practice workflows validated by co-intelligence, automation, and campaign effectiveness.

What You’ll Bring

Strategic Leadership Experience: Proven track record in a senior agency or client-side leadership role, with deep expertise across organic social, creator strategy, community building, and influencer marketing.

Commercial Acumen: Strong experience managing product revenue, commercial margins, and driving new business growth.

Cross-Discipline Vision: Ability to seamlessly combine social strategy with media, creative, and data to deliver measurable business impact.

People & AI Management: Demonstrable experience leading high-performing teams, with an appetite for adopting AI tools and automation to optimise team output.

Inspiring Communication: Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills with a track record of building deep, trusted relationships at senior client levels.

Our Values & Mindset

At Open Partners, we hire mindset first. If you do not have direct industry experience but possess a fierce growth mindset and transferable operational skills, we want to hear from you. We hold ourselves to three 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 elevate your career? Apply today!