Paid Social Manager

This range is provided by Bountiful Cow. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Bountiful Cow is an independent media agency built on creative thinking, strategic sharpness and Relative Advantage™ – our belief that brands don’t need to outspend their competitors if they can outsmart them.

We exist to challenge industry norms: less process, more ideas; less hierarchy, more autonomy. We operate with independence, clarity and transparency – and we’re unburdened by network bureaucracy. As part of the7stars group, we combine the agility of a small agency with access to specialist services and tools when needed.

We’re now expanding our Paid Social team and looking for someone who can bring ownership, strategic judgement and an independent mindset – someone who thrives in a lean, values-led environment, and values autonomy.

The Role

This is a Paid Social Manager position with a broad remit: balancing hands‑on performance and brand campaigns, managing client relationships, and supporting delivery across a busy, high‑growth set of accounts.

Core focus includes

• Lead Paid Social strategy across key accounts, combining brand and performance thinking
• Build and manage campaigns across Meta (core), TikTok, YouTube, and emerging social platforms
• Develop app‑led, subscription and engagement strategies — not just lower‑funnel performance
• Present recommendations, performance insight and next‑steps confidently to client stakeholders

Delivery & Performance

• Build campaigns from ideation through to activation, pacing and optimisation
• Manage budgets across multiple briefs, regions and divisions, ensuring performance KPIs are met
• Interpret data and turn it into clear insight, narrative and recommended action
• Oversee Exec‑level support, coaching where needed
• Work alongside search, display, planning, creative and data teams to deliver joined‑up campaigns
• Contribute to campaign architecture for new and newly onboarded clients
• Collaborate with media owners on Beta access, audience testing and innovation opportunities

Future‑facing Contribution

• Bring initiative and independent judgement — spotting opportunities and solving problems
• Contribute to knowledge‑sharing, training, agency initiatives and Relative Advantage™ thinking

What We’re Looking For

This role suits someone with both technical Paid Social experience and the maturity to manage clients independently – comfortable operating without heavy oversight.

You\’ll likely bring

• ~3 years’ Paid Social experience (agency‑side preferred)
• Confidence with Meta as a core platform; bonus if familiar with TikTok, YouTube, Snap, Reddit
• Experience managing both performance and brand‑led campaigns
• Maturity to handle complex briefs and multiple workstreams
• Ability to own client conversations — not just deliver outputs
• Strong organisation, judgement, and the ability to plan your own work effectively
• An “independent agency mindset” — proactive, commercially aware, solutions‑focused
• We’re open to experienced managers or strong Senior Execs ready to step up, if you can show readiness for client ownership and strategic responsibility.

Why Bountiful Cow?

An agency built for thinkers, challengers and self‑starters.

• Independent, free‑thinking and unafraid to challenge industry norms
• Autonomy over hierarchy – trust over control
• Not siloed by discipline – strategy, performance, data and creative work together
• Genuinely supportive and flexible – especially for working parents and caregivers
• A place where you’re encouraged to contribute to the agency, not just your accounts

People who thrive here are curious, solutions‑minded and have a healthy dislike of “how things have always been done”.

Benefits & Working Culture

Flexibility & Work Style

• Hybrid structure (typically 3 office, 2 WFH)
• “Work from anywhere” for two weeks each year
• 27 days holiday (plus closure at Christmas, increasing with service)
• Dedicated Learning Days (up to 5 annually) for training, events or development

Health, Wellbeing & Financial

• Private Medical Insurance (Vitality) Benefits Package
• Royal London pension (employer contributions) Benefits Package
• Life Assurance – up to 4x salary Benefits Package
• Critical Illness cover – £25k lump sum Benefits Package
• Income Protection – up to 75% salary cover for long‑term absence Benefits Package
• Employee Assistance Programme (confidential, 24/7 support) Benefits Package
• Fully funded gym membership options post‑probation Benefits Package
• Season Ticket Loan (interest free) Benefits Package