Paid Media Manager

Realtime.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Realtime is seeking a Paid Media Manager to own performance and brand advertising strategies for major brands. This hands-on role requires love of platforms, testing ideas, and scaling innovations within fast-paced, data-driven environments.

You will lead campaigns across social, search, and programmatic channels, manage budgets, deliver actionable insights, and collaborate with clients and internal teams to meet objectives.

Qualifications

• Two years of advertising experience across paid media channels.
• Experience with analytics tools and tagging (UTM, GA, GTM, Salesforce, Tableau).
• Ability to manage multiple accounts and meet deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with large brands on paid media campaigns to drive revenue and growth.
• Lead advertising operations across social, search and programmatic channels.
• Develop channel strategies and hands-on campaign execution.
• Navigate client conversations, translate insights into actions.
• Oversee budgets, pacing, forecasting, and performance reporting.
• Innovate and test new ideas, adopting AI tools to improve efficiency.

Skills

Paid media

Social advertising

Search advertising

Programmatic advertising

Analytics tools

Communication

Project management

Tools

GA / Google Analytics

GA4

Google Tag Manager

UTM tagging

Salesforce

Tableau

Job description

Realtime is searching for a Paid Media Manager that is an emerging expert across paid media channels and disciplines. In this role, you will work on a daily basis with large brands on performance and brand advertising campaigns that drive impact, revenue, and growth — helping to shape the strategies and executions that make our clients succeed.

This is a hands-on role for someone who loves being in the platforms, testing new ideas, and bringing creative thinking to performance challenges. If you thrive in fast-paced, data-driven environments and are energized by scale and innovation, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Work on a daily basis with large brands on performance and brand advertising campaigns that drive impact, revenue, and growth.
• Work with and have the opportunity to manage advertising operations teams across social, search, and/or programmatic channels.
• Own the strategic approach for paid media channels across key accounts, working hands-on-keyboard within media platforms to build and execute channel strategies that deliver against clients’ business objectives.
• Lead day-to-day client conversations, translating performance insights into clear recommendations, strategic actions, and future planning.
• Oversee media budgets, pacing, forecasting, and performance delivery to ensure activity remains aligned with client objectives and commercial targets.
• Maintain high standards across campaign setup, QA, trafficking, tracking, optimization, and reporting accuracy.
• Learn and implement advanced measurement tactics and tools to bridge the gap between investment and measurability.
• Bring innovation and new ideas to the table for both your direct clients and accounts, as well as the agency more broadly.
• Build and execute tests — then report on those findings and make recommendations on how those tests should be interpreted, iterated, and improved.
• Drive the strategic adoption of Realtime’s proprietary AI tools, embedding them into key processes and workflows to improve campaign efficiency, optimization quality, and scalability.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• At least two years of advertising experience, with exposure to at least two of the following paid media channels: paid social, paid search/shopping, programmatic advertising, app-based advertising.
• Proven track record of success within paid media campaigns.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple accounts and projects simultaneously to meet objectives and key deadlines.
• Experience with website and lead analytics (UTM tagging, Google Tag Manager, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Tableau).
• Outstanding data handling and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with deck creation and presentation.
• Well-organized and flexible; able to move from project to project without delay.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• A passion for doing the “cool s*** that wows.”

WHY REALTIME

Realtime is a global challenger agency that uses tech, innovation, and agility to out-punch the incumbents and bring real, effective change to the brands with which we work. Our motto is simple; “build cool s*** that wows”. To accomplish that, we lead the way with full-funnel strategic thinking, AI-backed advertising technology, and award-winning measurement strategies that take our brand partners to the next level.

Realtime is built for the AI era, and is backed by Pixis – the industry leader in AI advertising and creative tech that is trusted by thousands of brands and agencies globally. As part of the Pixis team, Realtime is the first-mover on the latest and greatest in AI adtech products and testing – and we take those advancements directly to our clients.

As part of the Realtime and Pixis team, candidates exploring opportunities with Realtime should expect to find a dynamic, uniquely positioned, and future-oriented organization that loves our people just as much as our clients.