Paid Media Executive

Brand Hackers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Working from home allowance

Personal development support

Enhanced parental leave

Unlimited coaching sessions

Job summary

Brand Hackers is a remote-first growth agency seeking a Paid Media Executive to lead paid media efforts for DTC brands. You will build, optimize, and report on campaigns across Google, Meta, and TikTok, working closely with founders and client teams.

You should be genuinely into D2C branding, understand current platform mechanics, and thrive in a fast-paced setting where you deliver high-velocity execution with strategic thinking.

Qualifications

• Experience with paid media campaigns across multiple channels.
• Genuine interest in D2C brands and startup marketing.
• Strong understanding of how Google and Meta platforms work today.
• Willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Bonus for hands-on experience in both Google and Meta, though one channel suffices.

Responsibilities

• Build and launch paid campaigns for DTC brands across Google, Meta, and TikTok.
• Own end-to-end campaign management: setup, monitoring, optimization, reporting.
• Collaborate with founders or in-house marketing teams, often as the primary marketer.
• Balance strategic planning with hands-on execution; deliver tangible results.
• Maintain pace while keeping an eye on the bigger business impact.

Skills

Paid media

D2C brands

Google Ads

Meta Ads

TikTok Ads

Tools

Google Ads Manager

Meta Ads Manager

TikTok Ads Manager

Job description

We help challenger brands fight smarter, think sharper, and win bigger.

We build experienced, dynamic and fractional teams that fit in like puzzle pieces – providing just the right knowledge and energy at the right time. We’re not your typical agency or a one-man show; we're a team of passionate professionals who eat, sleep, and breathe branding and marketing.

Our diverse team of experts covers all marketing mix elements, from brand strategy and social media to performance and web development and beyond and with over 100 brands under our belt, our Brand Hackers have a treasure trove of shared experiences. This wealth of knowledge fuels our creativity and gives us the edge.

We’re 4 years old and have grown from just 2 of us to 20+ people with knock-out case studies we’re really proud of and a serious growing reputation (even if we say so ourselves).

Beyond FMCG, we're building iconic challenger brands across Beauty, Luxury, Film, and more working with big challengers like Tony’s Chocolonely and emerging hot startups like Seep. From customer insights and brand strategy to campaign planning and comms strategy, our team tackles a wide range of briefs.

Performance marketing has become a Brand Hackers core offering over the past 18 months, to the point that we are on the hunt for another Paid Media Executive/Growth Executive to support this growth.

The Role

This role will be focused on building out and executing paid ads campaigns for DTC brands across Google, Meta and TikTok. Not only will you be setting these up but you’ll be responsible for all monitoring, optimising and reporting back to the client.

You will usually be working directly into the founders of each business, working either alongside their marketing teams or in some cases you will be their main marketing person.

This role will involve a good mix of strategic thinking alongside lots of execution and getting sh*t done so we are looking for someone capable of working at pace whilst keeping an eye on the bigger picture.

You will...

• Build and launch paid campaigns for DTC brands, mostly across Google, Meta and TikTok
• Own the campaign end to end: setup, monitoring, optimising and reporting straight back to the client, not just launching it and moving on.
• Working directly with founders, sometimes alongside their in-house marketing team, sometimes as their only marketing person.
• You’ll balance strategic thinking with proper execution. This isn't a decks-only role, you'll actually be the one getting it done.
• You’ll move at pace without losing sight of the bigger picture, so the day-to-day work still adds up to something.

You’ll have...

• You've had some exposure to paid. Agency junior, in-house, part of a wider marketing team, wherever, you just need to have touched it.
• You're genuinely into D2C brands, not just marketing in general.
• You understand how Google and Meta actually work today, not how they worked three years ago.
• You follow startup marketing because you want to, not because someone told you to.
• Bonus points if you've got hands-on time in both Google and Meta, but one channel is enough to get you in the room.

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work with some of the coolest challenger brands in the market, and help shape one of the fastest-growing agencies
• This a roaming role meaning you will work remotely most of the time with the expectation that you will be in London twice a month
• Competitive salary package, with holiday and benefits that include a working-from-home allowance, personal development support, enhanced parental leave, and unlimited coaching sessions.
• An opportunity to grow your expertise working with some of the brightest talent in the brand growth and marketing space and driven by shared purpose and success.
• Salary: £29 - 36k dependent on experience

What we can give in return

This is a full time, remote based role that will require you to be within easy access of London. There is an expectation that you will be available for client or internal in person meetings a minimum of twice a month

Monthly working-from-home allowance to be spent on coffee or co-working

Birthday off

Enhanced paternity/maternity leave & pay

Unlimited coaching with MoreHappi

Our commitment to your development.

We believe you shouldn’t have to wait until you start a job to see the benefits. Our handbook is open here.

Working rights in the UK required (we are currently unable to sponsor visas).