Paid Social Specialist

Xero; Auckland; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Auckland is seeking a Paid Social Specialist to enhance their digital marketing efforts. This role focuses on managing campaigns across platforms like LinkedIn and TikTok, requiring analytical expertise and collaboration across teams. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree and experience in performance marketing. The company offers generous paid leave, medical insurance, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous paid leave

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible working

Career development

Qualifications

• Experience in running data-driven Paid social marketing programs with global reach.
• Extensive experience in growth/performance/paid social marketing.
• Previous exposure at a tech/SaaS company with complex conversion funnels.

Responsibilities

• Manage campaigns on major platforms like LinkedIn, Meta, and TikTok.
• Plan, launch, optimize, and report paid social digital campaigns.
• Monitor campaign performance closely and analyze key metrics.

Skills

Data-driven marketing

Paid social platforms management

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LinkedIn

Meta

TikTok

Google Ads

SQL

Job description

Overview

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help supercharge small businesses. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Paid Social Specialist to join our dynamic marketing team. The ideal candidate will be passionate about leveraging paid social channels to drive measurable results and optimize campaign performance. This role requires a deep understanding of paid social platforms, tracking solutions, advanced measurement, and an inclination to work cross-functionally across analytics, applied science, and creative optimization to drive ROI through data-driven performance advertising.

What you'll do

• Proficiency in managing campaigns on major platforms like LinkedIn, Meta, TikTok, and potentially others like Google Ads
• Develop and execute paid digital media strategies aligned with overall marketing goals, including audience targeting, budget allocation, and campaign structure.
• Plan, launch, optimize and report paid social digital campaigns, including but not limited to campaign setup, audience targeting, budget allocation, bid management, ad creative development, and A/B testing; in partnership with CRO, Data Science and Partner Marketing teams.
• Lead implementation of third-party tools (FMPs, Creative Optimization tools) and work with Applied Science to develop in-house bidding and audience-based optimizations.
• Performance Analysis - Monitor campaign performance closely, analyze key metrics, and steer campaigns to maximize ROI.
• Creating and refining processes to allow for streamlined ways of working and accurate delivery of tasks.
• Leverage our CDP/1P & 3P data to create audiences (inclusion, exclusions, etc) and maximize incrementality through testing.
• Building strong relationships with both media and internal stakeholders
• Collaborate with the creative optimization team to develop compelling ad creatives and landing pages that drive conversions and resonate with the target audience.
• Execute testing roadmap across creatives, bidding, audiences, landing pages, and more aimed at constantly improving our campaign set-up to increase volume.

What you'll bring with you

• Experience in running data-driven Paid social marketing programs with global reach
• Bachelors degree
• Extensive experience in growth/performance/ paid social marketing
• Previous experience building and managing paid social / digital marketing programs
• SQL knowledge is preferred
• Previous exposure at a tech/SaaS company with complex conversion funnels
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally to drive Paid Digital ROI
• Deep understanding of tracking technologies and analytics

Why Xero?

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.