Overview
Nest Commerce is one of the UK’s fastest-growing performance marketing agencies, built for ecommerce and retail brands. We partner with category-leading names such as Urban Outfitters, Reiss, Damson Madder, Crew Clothing and Hims, helping them scale sustainably through cutting-edge performance strategy and proprietary technology. Our in-house AI platform, Hummingbird, gives us an unmatched competitive edge, automating optimisation, generating creative at scale, and empowering our teams to deliver market-leading results. We’re founder-led, independent, and fiercely ambitious, with a culture that blends commercial impact with genuine care for our people. As we continue to scale our search offering, we’re looking for a commercially sharp Paid Media Team Lead to join our expanding team.
Key Responsibilities
- Own Paid Search performance across up to five high-growth ecommerce accounts
- Shape, oversee, and sign off channel strategy to drive measurable results
- Build and present proposals that unlock incremental growth opportunities
- Lead and quality-control all Paid Search execution and optimisation
- Mentor and develop junior Executives, setting clear standards and best practices
- Ensure Nest’s testing methodologies and optimisation frameworks are consistently applied
- Produce accurate spend and performance forecasts with commercial insight
- Work closely with Performance Directors to deliver best-in-class cross-team collaboration
Candidate Experience
- Strong hands-on experience across Google Ads (Search, Shopping, Performance Max, YouTube) and Microsoft Ads
- A solid understanding of ecommerce performance levers and optimisation
- Confidence managing multiple client accounts simultaneously
- Analytical, data-led thinking with the ability to translate insights into action
- Excellent communication skills and comfort leading client conversations
- Experience mentoring or developing junior team members
- A proactive, curious mindset - always looking for smarter, faster, more effective solutions
- Above all, you’re someone who wants to deepen your Paid Search expertise within a high-performance, fast-moving environment.
Company Benefits
- Hybrid working (3 days in Kentish Town office) + dog-friendly environment
- Weekly team socials & Thursday learning sessions
- 6-week paid sabbatical after 4 years (plus option for 6 additional unpaid weeks)
- £50 monthly wellness allowance
- £10 lunch allowance twice per month
- £100 desk & chair allowance
- £20 monthly internet allowance
- Working abroad for up to 10 consecutive days per year
- 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (33 total)
- Enhanced parental leave and fertility support
- 1 volunteering day per year + £1,000 monthly charity donation
- Transparent leadership and a culture built around ownership, innovation,
