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.
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