Paid Media & Creative Manager

Aikido Security BV; Gent; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Aikido Security BV is expanding its paid media team and seeks a Paid Media & Creative Manager to own the strategy and execution of our paid social presence across Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, and YouTube. This role blends campaign management with creative development, briefing agencies, writing copy, and improving efficiency to sustain a steady stream of video and image content.

You’ll define channel mix, manage budgets, generate dashboards, and drive creative that fuels performance—builds

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing paid social campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, and YouTube.
• Comfortable setting channel and budget strategy, not just execution.
• Strong ad copywriting skills for paid social campaigns.
• Experience briefing agencies or freelancers for video and image production.
• Proven ability to build scalable processes for creative teams.
• Solid analytics and dashboard skills; HubSpot/Funnel experience is a plus.
• Experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, DevOps, or cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Define and own paid social strategy per channel: budget allocation, targeting, and channel mix.
• Plan, launch, and manage paid social campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, and YouTube.
• Own reporting on campaign performance; build dashboards, track spend, CTR, conversions, pipeline impact.
• Brief creative agencies and freelancers on video and image concepts for each platform.
• Write ad copy, captions, scripts, and messaging angles across paid social channels.
• Run a test-and-learn loop on creative and campaigns; scale winners, kill losers quickly.
• Manage creative production timelines, budgets, and relationships with agencies/freelancers.

Skills

Paid social

Ad copywriting

Analytics dashboards

Agency management

B2B SaaS

Tools

HubSpot

Funnel

Job description

We’re making security suck less for developers.

Security tools haven’t kept up with how software is built today. They interrupt teams, slow releases, and turn security into a bottleneck instead of a capability. We built Aikido to change that. Aikido builds developer-first security products that reduce real risk without getting in the way of shipping software. We focus on what actually matters and automate the rest.

We’re taking on legacy security tools teams have been stuck with, and we’re winning. If you want to help us take market share and build products developers actually enjoy using, you’re in the right place.

Founded in 2022 by third-time founders, Aikido has $85M in the bank and a long runway ahead. We’re building toward self-securing software. Join an all-star team. Take real ownership. Push boundaries. Build things that matter.

We're expanding our paid media team and looking for a Paid Media & Creative Manager to help own the strategy and execution of our paid social presence across Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, and YouTube. This role is half campaign management and reporting and half creative development. You'll set the approach for each channel you own, run campaigns, own the numbers, and drive the creative that fuels them, briefing agencies, writing copy, and improving efficiency to keep a strong stream of video and image creative flowing.

Responsibilities

• Define and own paid social strategy per channel: budget allocation, targeting, and channel mix, based on what's driving results.
• Plan, launch, and manage paid social campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, and YouTube.
• Own reporting on campaign performance: build and maintain dashboards, track spend, CTR, conversions, and pipeline impact, and turn results into clear recommendations.
• Brief creative agencies and freelancers on video and image concepts tailored to each platform and audience.
• Write creative copy: ad copy, captions, scripts, and messaging angles across all paid social channels.
• Run a tight test-and-learn loop on creative and campaigns: if something works, scale it; if it doesn't, kill it fast and move to the next idea.
• Manage creative production timelines, budgets, and relationships with agencies and freelancers.

• 5+ years managing paid social campaigns, ideally across Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, and/or YouTube.
• Comfortable setting channel and budget strategy, not just executing campaigns.
• Strong ad copywriting skills, with the ability to write compelling ad copy and creative concepts for paid social.
• Experience briefing and managing creative agencies or freelancers for video and image production.
• A track record of building processes that help creative teams produce more, faster, without sacrificing quality.
• Strong analytical skills and comfortable building and reading performance dashboards (Hubspot & Funnel experience is a plus).
• Experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, DevOps, or cybersecurity.

What you can expect

• Short decision lines. Big ownership. Shape the projects that matter and ship fast.
• Grow as fast as we do. Take on more, own more, and carve out your own path.
• Top-tier tech pay and equity.
• High trust, strong values, zero corporate BS.
• Flexibility in working hours.
• A company that sticks to its values in an open and informal atmosphere.

We hire for talent, drive, and potential. Everything else is noise.