Paid Strategy Manager

UK (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own paid demand across search and social with a clear, test-driven roadmap, turning performance insights into budget, audience and creative decisions that drive visibility and incremental growth.

  • Own the paid search and paid social performance roadmap, including testing, incrementality, and bid strategies.
  • Partner with Creative and Brand teams to feed data into briefs and shape cross-channel campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategy and day-to-day execution of all Paid Search activity across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, including search, Shopping and Performance Max campaigns.
  • Own the strategy and execution of our brand-led YouTube activity, working with the Creative Social Strategy Manager and our creative teams to deliver full-funnel video campaigns.
  • Daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly performance monitoring across all paid search activity, with proactive optimisation against KPIs.
  • Continuously test, optimise and iterate ad copy, creative, product feed, audience and bid strategies to maximise efficiency and incrementality.
  • Own the day-to-day management, optimisation and buying across Paid Social platforms, with a primary focus on Meta and a growing footprint across TikTok, Pinterest and other emerging platforms.
  • Build out audience targeting, segmentation and retargeting strategies in line with our wider full-funnel approach.
  • Work hand-in-hand with the Creative Social Strategy Manager, feeding performance data and audience insights into their creative briefs and providing structured feedback on creative performance.
  • Build, launch and QA campaigns, ensuring product feeds, pixels, tracking and audiences are correctly configured and aligned across platforms.
  • Own the audience, creative and incrementality testing roadmap across Paid Search and Paid Social, flexing budget between channels and platforms as performance dictates.
  • Own budget planning and pacing across brand and performance marketing, ensuring spend is allocated efficiently against business goals.

Requirements

  • 5+ years hands-on experience managing Paid Search and Paid Social campaigns, ideally in-house or agency-side within eCommerce or a marketplace environment
  • Deep, hands-on expertise across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, including Performance Max, Shopping and YouTube
  • Strong working experience with Meta Ads Manager, with experience activating across other paid social platforms (TikTok, Pinterest etc.)
  • Strong analytical capability — Google Sheets, Google Analytics, Looker & Count
  • Track record of designing and executing incrementality, audience and creative testing strategies. Experience with a measurement platform such as Triple Whale or Dema preferred
  • Experience managing significant budgets across both brand-building and performance objectives
  • Ability to demonstrate knowledge and passion for the NOTHS brand
  • Commercially minded with a test-and-learn mindset and a desire to continually improve
  • Highly organised and comfortable juggling multiple channels, campaigns and stakeholders
  • A strong communicator who collaborates well across teams, particularly with creative and brand partners

Preferred

  • Experience with a measurement platform such as Triple Whale or Dema preferred

Benefits

  • It\'s super important to us to make sure everyone feels safe and looked-after, which is why we\'ve got a wide range of benefits in place. From supporting you and your loved ones with healthcare to cheeky \'just because\' gifts, we\'re here for you.
  • We\'ve got a ton of good stuff for everyone - like private medical insurance, a health cash plan, an electric vehicle scheme, mental health platform access, cycle to work scheme, and a 20% discount on our website. To find out more about what we offer, have a look here .
  • We\'ve also worked very hard to come up with a set of policies to support our people in any situation- like medicalised leave, menstrual leave, and primary carer leave.
  • Full-time NOTHS-ers get 25 days of holidays each year (plus bank hols!), as well as having the opportunity to work from anywhere for two calendar months a year. Did someone say beach holiday?
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Not On The High Street

Founded in 2006, Not On The High Street is the best-loved curated modern marketplace connecting small brands with the world. Our marketplace brings together over 5000 small entrepreneurs selling more than 350,000 products with over 4 million customersWe're here to help customers discover amazing products for all of life's needs; whether they're looking for a gift or something for themselves. We provide small brands across the UK with an engaged customer based, expert business support and ready-made tech and data infrastructure. We are more than an e-commerce platform; making something requires consideration, patience and heart. This lives and breathes through us & our Partners in all we do together.We believe in a future - no matter how far away - where small brands together give big corporates a run for their money.Our Partners are passionate about their craft, their materials, their skills, their processes. About the joy they bring when something arrives that has been planned, designed, selected, crafted, packed and delivered with care. And we are passionate about sharing them with customers and about their success. Together, we have purpose.Because passion, purpose and a meaningful future should be for the many, not for the few.

Founded in 2006
London, England, GBR
193 employees (35 in marketing)

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.8%
Direct
46.8%
Referral
3.6%
Social
2.5%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~190

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (9% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$99.8M
Last Raise
$3.9M
Undisclosed, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2025
    Undisclosed • $3.9M
  • Jul 2024
    Undisclosed • $5.1M
  • Aug 2016
    Series E • $27.6M

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