Paid Social Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

£40K/yr – £45K/yrMid LevelContract

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the paid social engine for subscription and app acquisition, combining end-to-end campaign management with a structured creative testing framework to drive learning and scale across Meta, TikTok, and related platforms.

  • Own: plan, launch, optimize, and report on paid social programs with a focus on acquisition and learning at scale.
  • Collaborate: align with internal partners on creative strategy and hypotheses, prioritising tests that reveal scalable customer insights.
  • Improve: continuously refine campaign structures and leverage AI-enabled testing to speed creative development and measurement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning, execution and optimisation of paid social campaigns across Meta (primary), TikTok and other relevant platforms, focused on subscription and app acquisition.
  • Support growth across print and digital subscriptions and apps including Good Food All Access, Radio Times All Access, BBC Gardeners' World All Access and BBC History All Access.
  • Manage campaigns end-to-end - from briefing through to launch, daily optimisation, performance monitoring and reporting - ensuring delivery on time and within budget.
  • Manage paid social budgets effectively, allocating spend to maximise performance against acquisition targets.
  • Work closely with key internal stakeholders to develop and evolve paid social creative strategy, with a focus on identifying and testing the customer problems and jobs-to-be-done that each brand solves.
  • Lead the development and prioritisation of creative hypotheses, identifying which customer problems, messages and executions to test, and structuring tests so we learn what scales, not just what wins in the short term.
  • Build and maintain a systematic creative testing framework across Meta campaigns, ensuring learnings are documented, shared and acted on.
  • Brief performance creative clearly and effectively, working with creative teams to produce and iterate on assets quickly enough to support a high-velocity testing programme.
  • Stay current with AI tools and emerging approaches to creative development and testing, and actively explore how these can improve the speed and quality of creative output.
  • Design and manage campaign and ad set structures that are optimised for learning - ensuring spend is concentrated enough to generate meaningful signal.

Requirements

  • Proven hands-on experience managing paid social campaigns on Meta (Facebook & Instagram) at scale, with a strong track record in performance/acquisition campaigns.
  • Strong understanding of Meta's campaign structure, learning algorithm, audience targeting and optimisation levers.
  • Experience developing or contributing to creative strategy for paid social - including testing hypotheses, briefing creative, and using data to identify what resonates with audiences.
  • Comfortable working with performance data: analysing results, identifying trends, and turning insight into clear recommendations.
  • Strong communicator - able to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, and present performance clearly to non-specialist audiences.
  • Highly organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple campaigns and priorities simultaneously.

Preferred

  • Experience running paid social campaigns for subscription or app acquisition products.
  • Familiarity with TikTok Ads Manager and/or other paid social platforms.
  • Experience with or genuine interest in using AI tools to support creative development, testing and performance marketing workflows.
  • Experience with third-party measurement and attribution tools.

Benefits

  • A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival
  • Supportive well-being initiatives and benefits, talks & workshops, and Mental Health First aiders & Champions
  • 25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday. Our offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s which are in addition to your annual entitlement
  • Tailored training and development through both our inhouse learning platform and LinkedIn Learning
  • A progressive and transparent culture focused on your development
  • Flexible / hybrid working plus early finish Fridays
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Enhanced Family Policies including paternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also provide a pregnancy loss, fertility, and carers policy
  • Competitive pension plans and Life Assurance
  • A newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces
  • Immediate is an equal opportunities employer. We’ll never treat anyone less favourably because of their sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marital/civil partnerships, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief or disability. We’re also committed to supporting applications from those who are returning to work following a career break, maternity leave or caring responsibilities.
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Immediate

At Immediate, we’re home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food, Nutracheck, HistoryExtra and BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps, live events, tools and services. We’re the destination for people looking to get more joy from the things they love – helping to inspire them, deepen their knowledge, skills and fuel their passions.

Founded in 2011
London, England, GBR
819 employees (398 in marketing)

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200.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
54.3%
Direct
29.3%
Referral
14.4%
Social
1.5%
Paid
0.4%

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