Paid Social Executive (Graduate)

Paid Social Executive (Graduate)

Full-Time 28000 - 35000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
HeliosX

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Launch and monitor paid social campaigns on Meta, TikTok, and Reddit while optimising performance.
  • Company: Join a dynamic team focused on growth marketing and performance-driven campaigns.
  • Benefits: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage in a fast-paced testing environment.
  • Other info: Familiarity with tools like Google Analytics and strong data fluency in Excel is preferred.
  • Why this job: Ideal for detail-oriented graduates eager to build a career in growth marketing.
  • Qualifications: 1 year of hands-on experience in paid social or a relevant degree in marketing or statistics.

The predicted salary is between 28000 - 35000 £ per year.

Requirements

  • 1 year experience in a hands-on paid social role working on performance focused campaigns (in house or at an agency)
  • Relevant degree (marketing, mathematics, or a statistical field) is welcomed, along with a genuine ambition to build a career in growth marketing
  • Familiarity with third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Metabase, or Amplitude would be a bonus
  • Solid understanding of Meta ads manager, with the ability to accurately activate new creatives and account optimisations
  • Strong data fluency in MS Excel/Google Sheets; including pivot tables, charts, formulas and VLOOKUPs
  • Ability to manipulate, visualise, and extract meaningful insights from data to tell a clear, compelling story
  • Good knowledge of paid social best practices and tracking fundamentals (i.e. pixels, UTM parameters, and attribution)
  • Confident and clear communicator, comfortable contributing to team discussions both in writing and verbally
  • Natural curiosity and proactive; seeks out solutions, rather than waiting to be directed
  • Strong attention to detail, particularly when building campaigns or working with data
  • Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously
  • Collaborative team player who works well cross-functionally

What the job involves

  • Support the delivery and optimisation of campaigns across platforms including Meta and TikTok
  • Hands-on in launching and monitoring campaigns, implementing creative tests, maintaining account hygiene, and using data to identify optimisation opportunities and performance insights
  • Work closely with growth, influencer, and creative teams, supporting a fast-paced testing environment and contributing across the full campaign lifecycle
  • Support the activation of paid social campaigns across paid social platforms such as Meta, TikTok & Reddit
  • Accurately implement new creative builds, ensuring that activity launches on time and to requirements, maintaining a high standard of quality assurance
  • Deploy experiments and A/B tests under the guidance and supervision of managers
  • Contribute to campaign optimisation, using platform and third-party data sources to identify what is working, what needs improving, and where performance can be pushed further
  • Support ongoing monitoring of campaign delivery, keeping a close eye on budget pacing and KPI tracking across all active campaigns
  • Maintain strong account hygiene; ensuring naming conventions are accurate, advert disapproval/delivery errors are addressed promptly, and that URLs and tracking are functioning as expected
  • Proactively identify trends in campaign performance, feeding insights into team discussions and strategic decisions
  • Support the production of weekly/monthly acquisition performance reporting, utilising a variety of tools such as MS Excel, Metabase & Amplitude
  • Prepare and deliver weekly creative insight reporting to help inform advert concept development and iteration
  • Track and record experiment results, summarising findings and suggesting outcomes
  • Execute competitor and industry research
  • Proactively update internal and external teams on status of priorities, performance, and roadmap projects
  • Collaborate closely with paid influencer & growth creative teams, to help maintain the momentum of our high-velocity creative testing cycle
  • Help ensure the creative production cycle is moving at pace; updating trackers, and supporting the planning and scheduling of upcoming creative tests

Paid Social Executive (Graduate) employer: HeliosX

This role is based in a vibrant office environment where collaboration thrives. Employees enjoy a fast-paced atmosphere that encourages creative testing and innovation. The team values proactive problem-solving and offers opportunities for professional growth in the marketing sector.

HeliosX

Contact Details:

HeliosX Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Paid Social Executive (Graduate)

Paid Social Campaign Management
Meta Ads Manager
Data Analysis
Google Analytics
MS Excel
Google Sheets
A/B Testing