Paid Media Executive

Select Recruitment Specialists Ltd; Remote; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic recruitment agency is seeking a Paid Media Executive to join a high-growth environment. The role offers the chance to work remotely across the UK with a salary of up to £45,000, complemented by a 10% annual bonus scheme. Key responsibilities include campaign setup, data analysis, and collaborating with creative teams. Applicants should have proficiency in various paid media platforms, strong data analysis skills, and the ability to communicate effectively. Exceptional growth potential and a supportive work culture await the right candidate.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Bupa Health & Dental Insurance

Monthly remote work stipend

Personal development support

Access to virtual yoga sessions

Qualifications

• Experience in managing media budgets, setting up campaigns, and troubleshooting.
• Confident with analytical concepts and data-driven decision-making.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Set up and optimize campaigns across various platforms.
• Conduct data analysis and produce performance reports.
• Collaborate with creative teams to develop effective advertising strategies.

Skills

Paid Media Proficiency

Data Analysis

Creative Collaboration

Communication Skills

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Google Ads

Meta Ads

Job description

Overview

Our client is a fast-growing, direct-to-consumer marketplace redefining their market! They're on a mission and with members in over 135 countries and a product people genuinely love, they're scaling something truly special — but they're only just getting started. Their goal? To grow to 1 million members and become the world's most-loved solution in their field. This is a PE-backed, high-growth environment where your work directly shapes how fast — and how well — the business scales.

The Role

You'll be a hands-on Paid Media Executive helping scale user acquisition as part of a small, growing team. Day-to-day, you'll work alongside Paid Media Leads delivering at pace: setting up new campaigns, analysing performance, and implementing iterative optimisations that drive real impact. This isn't a junior execution role — nor is it strategy-only. You'll have real ownership, visibility to business outcomes, and the chance to influence company direction through data, insight, and smart decision-making.

What You'll Do

• Campaign Build & Optimisation
  • Set up, QA, and optimise campaigns across Meta Ads, Google Ads, and beyond
  • Maintain strict naming conventions, UTMs, and tracking hygiene — because data quality powers good decisions
  • Monitor daily pacing, surface risks and opportunities, propose reallocations by channel, campaign, or geo
• Data Analysis & Insight
  • Conduct in-depth analysis combining multiple data sources (not just in-platform dashboards) to help the team make better strategic and tactical decisions
  • Produce written performance snapshots with clear insight, analysis, and next steps
  • Work closely with in-house Data teams to measure real business impact
  • Understand that you're optimising for successful sits and long-term value — not vanity metrics
• Experimentation & Learning
  • Run A/B tests on copy, creative, audience, and bid strategies
  • Maintain a test log with hypotheses, outcomes, and actions
  • Value shipping fast over polishing endlessly — you optimise for learning and iteration
• Market & Platform Awareness
  • Stay current on platform changes, policies, and tactics
  • Suggest small pilots when a change is material to your strategy
• Measurement & Tracking
  • Ensure pixels, events, and conversions are firing correctly
  • Keep UTMs consistent and dashboards aligned to a single source of truth
• Research, Ideation & Creative Strategy
  • Turn customer insight, search query data, and broader industry/competitor research into keyword themes, audience hypotheses, and creative testing opportunities
  • Develop hypothesis-led creative briefs and manage a prioritised ideas backlog
  • Collaborate hand-in-hand with creative teams to ideate, test, and iterate on concepts that drive performance

What We're Looking For

• Paid Media Proficiency
  • You know how to use various paid media platforms (Meta, Google, etc.)
  • You can set up campaigns, troubleshoot technical issues, and have experience managing scale-up sized media budgets
  • You're confident with UTMs, pixels, events, and conversion tracking
• Confident with Data
  • You have experience working with data and in-house Data teams
  • You understand relevant analytical concepts and how we can (and can't) measure marketing impact
  • You're enthusiastic about self-serving your own analytics and ideally have experience with BI tools like Looker or Tableau
  • You go beyond in-platform/GA data to find real insight
• Creative Collaboration
  • You've written creative briefs before
  • You've collaborated hand-in-hand with creative teams to ideate, test, and iterate on creative concepts
• Communication Skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communicator
  • You can translate complex concepts to non-experts
  • You understand the level of detail/context required for different audiences
  • You're able to contribute to C-suite level written analysis
• Your Mindset (Non-Negotiable)
  • You're comfortable in a high-growth, fast-moving environment that's constantly evolving
  • You want to understand how and why things work (or why they don't)
  • You value shipping fast over polishing endlessly, because you optimise for learning
  • You're curious about how the business makes money and how you contribute to growing it
  • You actively develop your skillset, stay up-to-date with trends, and operate at the forefront of your field
• Bonus if you have...
  • Experience in fast-paced start-ups, scale-ups, marketing agencies, marketplaces, or travel
  • Proficiency with data exploration tools (Looker, basic SQL)
  • Exposure to behavioural science techniques

What My Client Offers

• Fully remote work — based anywhere across the UK with monthly wfh stipend and an allowance towards home office equipment
• Up to £45,000 per annum with monthly discretionary 10% annual bonus scheme and generous equity options
• 25 days holiday annually, plus bank holidays and Christmas to New Year closure
• MacBook provision
• Personal development support and dedicated time for learning
• Bupa Health & Dental Insurance, SimplyHealth Healthcare Cash plan
• Employee volunteering and giving schemes
• Weekly virtual yoga sessions
• Co-working access via Spaces locations globally, plus quarterly all-expenses paid team meet-ups and regular team events for true collaboration

This is a fast-paced, high-growth environment where high accountability is expected. You'll be asked to think critically, challenge assumptions, and balance performance with quality. This isn't a role where you wait for perfect briefs — you'll be expected to take initiative, ask smart questions, and drive improvements. If you thrive in pace, ambiguity, and ownership, this could be the right fit.

How to Apply

To apply or for more information, please contact Emma or Jade at Select Recruitment in confidence. Interviews taking place NOW - what are you waiting for?