Paid Social Executive

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own activation and optimization of paid social campaigns, turning data and rapid testing into scalable performance across Meta, TikTok, and Reddit.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Activate new creatives, launch campaigns on time, and maintain quality assurance and tracking accuracy.
  • Campaign Optimisation & Reporting: Analyze performance data to inform optimizations and provide actionable insights for concept iteration.
  • Experimentation & Collaboration: Plan and run A/B tests under guidance, share results with cross-functional teams, and monitor delivery and budget pacing.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the activation of paid social campaigns across paid social platforms such as Meta, TikTok & Reddit.
  • Accurately implement new creative builds, ensuring that activity launches on time and to requirements, maintaining a high standard of quality assurance.
  • Deploy experiments and A/B tests under the guidance and supervision of managers.
  • Contribute to campaign optimisation, using platform and third-party data sources to identify what is working, what needs improving, and where performance can be pushed further.
  • Support ongoing monitoring of campaign delivery, keeping a close eye on budget pacing and KPI tracking across all active campaigns.
  • Maintain strong account hygiene; ensuring naming conventions are accurate, advert disapproval / delivery errors are addressed promptly, and that URLS and tracking are functioning as expected.
  • Proactively identify trends in campaign performance, feeding insights into team discussions and strategic decisions.
  • Support the production of weekly/monthly acquisition performance reporting, utilising a variety of tools such as MS Excel, Metabase & Amplitude.
  • Prepare and deliver weekly creative insight reporting to help inform advert concept development and iteration.
  • Track and record experiment results, summarising findings and suggesting outcomes.

Requirements

  • 1 year experience in a hands-on paid social role working on performance focused campaigns (in house or at an agency).
  • We'd also welcome applications from candidates with a relevant degree (marketing, mathematics, or a statistical field), and a genuine ambition to build a career in growth marketing - even if you don’t have direct paid social experience.
  • Familiarity with third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Metabase, or Amplitude would be a bonus.
  • Solid understanding of Meta ads manager, with the ability to accurately activate new creatives and account optimisations.
  • Strong data fluency in MS Excel/Google Sheets; including pivot tables, charts, formulas and VLOOKUPs.
  • Ability to manipulate, visualise, and extract meaningful insights from data to tell a clear, compelling story.
  • Good knowledge of paid social best practices and tracking fundamentals (i.e. pixels, UTM parameters, and attribution)
  • Confident and clear communicator, comfortable contributing to team discussions both in writing and verbally.
  • Natural curiosity and proactive; you seek out solutions, rather than waiting to be directed.
  • Strong attention to detail, particularly when building campaigns or working with data.

Benefits

  • Generous equity allocations with significant upside potential
  • 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual Bank Holidays)
  • Private health insurance, along with extra dental and eye care cover
  • Pension scheme
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Cycle-to-work Scheme
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • Free Dermatica and MedExpress products every month, as well as family discounts
  • Home office allowance