Paid Media Director: E-commerce

Paid Media Director: E-commerce

- Salary: £70,000 – £80,000

- Type: Full Time

- Location: Remote

Our client has been named one of the UK's top 100 companies to work for in 2025 by the Culture 100 Awards, recognising the nation's most loved workplaces.
Who we they:

They are a digital advertising agency for high consideration products. We help businesses with complex offerings increase their sales by combining the power of algorithms with human empathy, storytelling and style. Our primary way of doing this is through our Paid Media Management service, which is at the heart of our business. In addition to this, we also offer creative campaign development and social first content production.
About the job:
What you would do in this role:

This is a senior strategic role that sits between our Senior Paid Media Managers and our Partner & Head of Paid Media. You'd be the person who takes full ownership of a client's paid media strategy from day one; building it from the ground up, anchored to their commercial reality. That means understanding their P&L, their CAC targets, their LTV models and their broader business goals before you ever open Ads Manager.

Once the strategy is live, you own it. You're the one who spots when something isn't working, diagnoses why and course-corrects without waiting for someone senior to weigh in. You're also the person the client calls when there's an issue or a wider challenge. Not because you've been cc'd, but because you are their most senior point of contact. From Marfa Stance to Humanrace, the brands we work with have high standards and expect sharp, senior thinking from the people managing their spend.

Beyond your own accounts, you'll play a real role in developing the team around you. Our Senior Managers and Executives are talented, but they need someone who can coach them, challenge them and raise the bar on how we all work.
Who is this role for:

- Strategists who think in spreadsheets, not just dashboards. You should be as comfortable modelling a client's unit economics as you are building a campaign structure. We need someone who can connect paid media performance to actual business outcomes.

- You've managed Meta campaigns professionally for 7+ years and have solid experience across other channels, including intricate understanding of Paid Search. You know these platforms inside out, but you also understand their limitations and where they sit in a broader marketing mix.

- People who own the room. You'll be the most senior person your clients interact with regularly. That means running QBRs, navigating tough conversations and presenting strategy clearly and persuasively. Your communication, both written and verbal, needs to match the calibre of the brands you'll represent.

- You understand measurement beyond last-click. Incrementality testing, attribution modelling, the gap between what a platform reports and what actually happened. You don't need to be a data scientist, but you should be able to have a sophisticated conversation about what's really working and why.

- Leaders who make others better. You'll mentor Senior Managers and Executives, set standards for how we work, and help build a culture where people grow. This isn't a people-management-by-title role. It's a genuine responsibility.

- Experience from smaller agencies or lean in-house teams: you know what it's like to think on your feet with fewer resources, and you've developed the commercial judgement that comes with it. If you've only been in massive organisations, you probably don't have enough experience of the fast-moving clients and work cultures we work within.

What you'll get:

- Working with fun & fascinating businesses – think music festivals in tropical locations, or Regenesis, Novak Djokovic's new entrepreneurial venture.

- The chance to travel while your investment banker friends are slurping noodles at 2am somewhere dreadful like Canary Wharf.

- The freedom of working remotely, but with trips ever