Paid Media Manager

Zinc; London Borough of Hackney; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 days holiday

Bank holidays off

Birthday off

£1200 benefits allowance

Early finish Fridays

Company retreat abroad

Work from anywhere 30 days

Pension with NEST

Zinc shares (EMI)

Spill Therapy access

Company socials

Nursery workplace scheme

Electric car scheme

Anniversaries

Job summary

Zinc is seeking a Paid Media Manager to drive our paid media strategy across LinkedIn, Meta and emerging channels from London. You will own campaigns end-to-end, build tests, optimise performance and tie spend to pipeline and revenue within HubSpot and Dreamdata.

This is a hands-on IC role reporting to the Senior Demand Gen Lead and collaborating with Social, Content, Creative and Sales teams. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of paid social in B2B SaaS, experience with ABM and CRM-synced

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on paid social experience, predominantly in LinkedIn.
• Proven experience running LinkedIn campaigns for a B2B SaaS business, ideally in-house.
• Experience running account-based paid campaigns with CRM-synced audiences, alongside Sales.
• Strong analytical skills and comfortable using HubSpot, Google Analytics and attribution tooling (Dreamdata) to collate performance reports.

Responsibilities

• Paid social campaign management across LinkedIn and Meta, UK and global expansion.
• Own paid social strategy, budgets, pacing and forecasting with data-led recommendations.
• Run regular A/B tests across ad types, audiences, messaging and landing pages.
• Identify and pilot new channels (Reddit, ChatGPT ads, G2 ads) with clear scale/kill decisions.
• Produce monthly reports on spend, pipeline and ROAS using HubSpot and Dreamdata.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing and Sales to avoid silos.

Skills

Paid social

LinkedIn campaigns

B2B SaaS marketing

ABM campaigns

Analytics & reporting

Budget ownership

Experimentation

Tools

HubSpot

Google Analytics

Dreamdata

GA4

UTM governance

Job description

Paid Media Manager

Application Deadline: 4 November 2026

Department: Marketing - Demand Generation

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Zinc - London

Reporting To: Rachel Moore

Compensation: £45,000 - £55,000 / year

Description

Zinc's marketing function is building toward a world-class demand engine. As we push beyond the UK, we want to reach our ICP in the ways they want to be reached, across a range of paid media channels, and turn that attention into pipeline (not just clicks and impressions).

This role owns that. You’ll sit within the Demand Generation team, reporting into the Senior Demand Generation Lead, and working closely with Social, Content, Creative, Sales and the wider commercial team. You’ll run paid media across LinkedIn (our primary channel), Meta and emerging paid channels, driving lead generation, demand generation, pipeline growth, brand awareness and account-based marketing. You’ll be accountable for what paid delivers in HubSpot and Dreamdata (leads, MQLs, pipeline and revenue), not just what the platforms report.

This is a hands‑on IC role. You’ll build, launch, test and optimise campaigns yourself, and own the strategy behind them.

(Please find full interview process listed in the Job description on our website - including timelines)

Key Responsibilities

• Paid social campaign management: Planning, building and launching campaigns, predominantly on LinkedIn with a lighter touch on Meta, across campaign objectives and audiences. Leading activity across the full funnel, balancing brand, consideration and retargeting, in the UK and as we expand globally.
• Strategy and budget ownership: Owning the paid social strategy, set against marketing objectives and commercial targets. Managing budgets, pacing and forecasting, and making data‑led recommendations to the Senior Demand Gen Lead to improve performance and ROI.
• Optimisation and testing: Running regular A/B tests across ad types, audiences, messaging, creative and landing pages, guided by a structured testing roadmap. Making fast pause/scale calls from the data.
• Emerging channels: Identifying and recommending new channels to test (e.g. Reddit ads, ChatGPT ads, G2 ads) and running pilots from a scoped test plan through to a clear scale or kill decision. Reporting openly on the results and limitations of each so we can make informed investment decisions.
• Reporting and analysis: Producing monthly paid reports covering spend, pipeline, and ROAS, using HubSpot and Dreamdata to show what’s driving Leads, MQLs, SQLs and revenue. Giving marketing leadership clear readouts with recommendations, not just numbers. Owning the tagging framework (UTMs, tracking pixels, GA4, HubSpot integration), including its accuracy and maintenance.
• Cross‑functional collaboration: Working closely with marketing and the commercial teams to ensure paid activity isn’t siloed. Partnering with the Social Media Manager and Creative team to produce performance‑led assets at a steady cadence and avoid creative fatigue, and aligning on a thought leadership approach that carries high‑performing organic content into paid and vice versa.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 3+ years hands‑on paid social experience, predominantly in LinkedIn.
• Proven experience running LinkedIn campaigns for a B2B SaaS business, ideally in‑house, though agency experience will be considered.
• Experience running account‑based paid campaigns using target lists and CRM‑synced audiences, alongside Sales.
• Strong analytical skills, and comfortable using HubSpot, Google Analytics and attribution tooling (we use Dreamdata) to collate clear and consistent performance reports.
• Budget ownership and a track record of tying spend to pipeline and the impact on revenue. Comfortable setting up tracking and talking about the commercial impact of your channels.
• Experience running structured experiments across paid media channels.

Nice to haves

• Experience managing display, programmatic, YouTube or paid search campaigns.
• Experience scaling LinkedIn campaigns internationally.
• Piloting emerging channels for Zinc (Reddit, ads, G2 ads, ChatGPT ads) through to a scale or kill decision
• Hands‑on experience with LinkedIn Insight Tag, Conversions API and UTM governance, with a working grasp of consent and GDPR‑compliant tracking.

What we offer

• 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
• £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
• Early finish Fridays (16:00)
• Yearly company retreat abroad
• 30 days to Work from anywhere
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption)
• Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
• Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
• Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
• Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
• Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
• Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
• Celebrated Zinc anniversaries