Paid Media Manager

London, UK (On-site)

£45K/yr – £55K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and execute paid social strategy and campaigns (primarily LinkedIn) across the UK and globally, manage budgets and forecast ROI, run regular testing and pilots for emerging channels, and partner with marketing, sales, and creative to align paid with organic programs.

  • Lead paid social strategy and budget ownership
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to drive pipeline and revenue impact
  • Analyze performance, produce insights, and optimize tagging and reporting

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Paid social campaign management: Planning, building and launching campaigns, predominantly on LinkedIn with a lighter touch on Meta, across campaign objectives, audiences and messaging. Leading activity across the full funnel, balancing brand, consideration and retargeting, in the UK and as we expand globally. 🧑‍💼
  • Strategy and budget ownership: Owning the paid social strategy, set against marketing objectives and commercial targets. Managing budgets, pacing and forecasting, and making data-led recommendations to the Senior Demand Gen Lead to improve performance and ROI. 📊
  • Optimisation and testing: Running regular A/B tests across ad types, audiences, messaging, creative and landing pages, guided by a structured testing roadmap. Making fast pause/scale calls from the data. 🧪
  • Emerging channels: Identifying and recommending new channels to test (e.g. Reddit ads, ChatGPT ads, G2 ads) and running pilots from a scoped test plan through to a clear scale or kill decision. Reporting openly on the results and limitations of each so we can make informed investment decisions.
  • Reporting and analysis: Producing monthly paid reports covering spend, pipeline, and ROAS, using HubSpot and Dreamdata to show what’s driving Leads, MQLs, SQLs and revenue. Giving marketing leadership clear readouts with recommendations, not just numbers. Owning the tagging framework (UTMs, tracking pixels, GA4, HubSpot integration), including its accuracy and maintenance. 🧑‍🔧
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Working closely with marketing and the commercial teams to ensure paid activity isn’t siloed. Partnering with the Social Media Manager and Creative team to produce performance-led assets at a steady cadence and avoid creative fatigue, and aligning on a thought leadership approach that carries high-performing organic content into paid and vice versa. 👯

Requirements

  • 3+ years hands-on paid social experience, predominantly in LinkedIn.
  • Proven experience running LinkedIn campaigns for a B2B SaaS business, ideally in-house, though agency experience will be considered.
  • Experience running account-based paid campaigns using target lists and CRM-synced audiences, alongside Sales.
  • Strong analytical skills, and comfortable using HubSpot, Google Analytics and attribution tooling (we use Dreamdata) to collate clear and consistent performance reports.
  • Budget ownership and a track record of tying spend to pipeline and revenue. Comfortable setting up tracking and talking about the commercial impact of your channels.
  • Experience running structured experiments across paid media channels.

Preferred

  • Experience managing display, programmatic, YouTube or paid search campaigns.
  • Experience scaling LinkedIn campaigns internationally.
  • Piloting emerging channels (Reddit, G2, ChatGPT ads) through to a scale or kill decision
  • Hands-on experience with GA4, LinkedIn Insight Tag, Conversions API and UTM governance, with a working grasp of consent and GDPR-compliant tracking.

Benefits

  • 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
  • £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
  • Early finish Fridays (16:00)
  • Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
  • 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
  • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption) 🐣
  • Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
  • Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
  • Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
  • Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
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Zinc exists to accelerate Science-for-Impact innovation, partnering with people and organisations to build a better future for people and planet. Through our venture building, talent initiatives and innovation partnerships, we work across the entire Science-for-Impact ecosystem to create the conditions, capabilities, and coalitions needed for transformative change.Pre-seed investment: We back exceptional entrepreneurial talent from the conception of a new Science-for-Impact venture through to seed, providing the funding, venture-building expertise, team building, and coaching required to set teams up for impact on people and planet at scale.Learn more on our website here: https://www.zinc.vc/To apply for funding, please tell us a bit about yourself and what you're building via this short form: https://airtable.com/appTvgH4eAXwSD2Vs/pagxU4iWkcj9vJrWj/form

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351 employees (10 in marketing)
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Salaries

Posted range

£45K/yr – £55K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range (£50K) is 32% above the median base salary for Paid Media Manager roles in the United Kingdom (£38K).

Paid Media Manager median pay in the United Kingdom

£38K/yr

Most pay falls between £36K and £44K. Based on 28 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$4.1M
Last Raise
$4.1M
Seed, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2018
    Seed • $4.1M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
14.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.6%
Direct
41.4%
Referral
9.2%
Social
5.1%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~351
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Paid Media Manager

Zinc · London, UK · On-site