Paid Media Manager
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Paid Media Manager at eight&four: London, United Kingdom; Hybrid; Full time; Marketing & Growth. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: London, United Kingdom, Hybrid
- Role classification: Marketing & Growth, Full time
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-06-03.
- Application path: candidates continue to the employer application page with non-personal referral tags.
We’re a social and content agency led by talent and fuelled by technology. Since 2008, we’ve been building an integrated, digital-first offering that combines content excellence with channel best practice to drive meaningful performance for our clients. Born in London, we’ve grown into a global agency, partnering with ambitious brands across international markets and delivering work that connects with audiences wherever they are.
As a values-driven agency, our people are our power. We stay ahead of the game by hiring smart thinkers and giving them back what they put in - through rapid progression, industry-leading benefits, and a culture that has been recognised in Campaign’s Best Places to Work for over seven years running.
We are looking for a Paid Media Manager to play a pivotal role in our growing team - we're looking for someone to bring paid social and paid search expertise and broader channel thinking, as well as oversee and input into innovative and high-performing campaign strategies across multiple platforms.
The role goes beyond activation as you'll shape campaign approaches, define KPIs, connect channels, deliver integrated work, bring modern advertising approaches and provide a high level of social consultancy and senior client support.
The role sits within the Distribution team as part of the media and performance arm.
Key Responsibilities
- Create social and search approaches across teams that feel connected, not silo'd, that contain full funnel planning and ladder up to real business impact.
- Collaborate with key teams such as the Account Management teams through owned / organic social, and via Growth and New Business working on proposals.
- Drive performance across all accounts, inspiring teams, supporting with reporting insight and training sessions.
- Setting KPIs in conjunction with teams across paid to ladder up to real business impact.
- Showcase fresh paid approaches and measurement tactics, across all clients, working with external teams understand context / challenges.
- Testing and innovation - A/B testing, alphas/betas, creative experimentation.
- Bring thought leadership and solutions for modern advertising techniques and landscape changes across social.