Paid Social Specialist

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Paid Social Specialist scaling Meta and social advertising for Releaf, a UK medical cannabis clinic. Managing budgets, creative testing, compliance, and performance measurement.

Responsibilities:

  • Report to the Head of Performance Marketing and work closely with the Paid Search Specialist
  • Own and scale the paid social programme across Meta and other social channels
  • Manage day-to-day Meta paid social activity across campaign structure, audiences, budgets, bidding, placements, and creative rotation on Facebook and Instagram
  • Manage and pace significant monthly spend against CPA and volume targets, including forecasting and in-month course correction
  • Run continuous creative testing across hooks, formats, angles, static versus video, UGC, and landing-page pairings
  • Brief creative and communicate testing objectives and quality standards to the design team
  • Own technical setup including pixel, Conversions API, event configuration, catalogue, and audience management
  • Ensure ads, assets, and landing pages comply with advertising policy and sector-specific regulatory restrictions
  • Manage ad rejections, restrictions, and appeals
  • Own relationships with Meta account and support teams and pursue beta and alpha access
  • Test, scale, or sunset activity on platforms such as TikTok and Pinterest
  • Build business cases for new channel investment and run tests with clean measurement
  • Own weekly performance reporting, monthly business reviews, and ad hoc leadership deep dives
  • Analyse end-to-end performance in GA4 alongside platform data and explain discrepancies
  • Use incrementality testing, geo tests, holdouts, or lift studies to measure paid social impact
  • Feed insights into creative, landing pages, and offers, recommending changes based on evidence

Requirements:

  • Strong, demonstrable, hands-on Meta paid social experience
  • Proven track record managing significant paid social budgets with direct accountability for performance
  • Genuine creative instinct and ability to turn creative performance insights into tests
  • Comfortable with platform reporting, GA4, and discrepancies between the two
  • Confident with numbers, spreadsheets, forecasting, and anomaly detection
  • Able to work independently and prioritise
  • Experience across other paid social platforms (desirable)
  • Agency background or in-house experience in a tightly regulated industry such as healthcare, pharma, financial services, gambling, or legal (desirable)
  • Working knowledge of German (desirable, not required)
  • Knowledge of Conversions API/server-side tracking, Google Tag Manager, and consent mode (desirable)
  • Hands-on ability to cut or edit creative (desirable)
  • Experience with influencer, affiliate, or organic social as adjacent channels (desirable)

Benefits:

  • Certified B Corp status
  • Reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process