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 (November 2026 - November 2027)

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‑class social, community, and creator strategies that drive rapid, profitable growth for our clients.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.