Head of Paid Media

Head of Paid Media

Hybrid

London

Award winning, independent media agency seeks best in class Head of Paid Media to join their rapidly growing team. This is a senior leadership role with four core pillars: People, Clients, Service Innovation, and Strategic Differentiation.

As Head of Paid Media, you'll lead and grow our client's largest and most commercially critical department. You'll manage a team of 8+ specialists, fostering a culture of curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement. You'll be a mentor, a coach, and a champion for delivering best in class paid media work. You'll also take senior ownership of client strategy, partnering with a wide range of brands to drive measurable business outcomes through paid media, shaping strategy across Google Ads, Meta, programmatic and native platforms. You will play a central role in enhancing service and delivery standards, continually evolving how we plan, buy, measure and optimise media across the full funnel. You'll lead the charge in developing innovative, insight led and performance driven solutions. Crucially, this is a leadership team position - you won't just run a department, you'll sit at the table shaping the agency's structure, services and future direction.

Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience in paid media, with strong agency side exposure.
• Demonstrated ability to scale campaigns and lead strategy across Meta, Google and Taboola.
• Strong team management experience, including mentoring and performance development.
• Proven success in client relationship management and account growth.
• Deep understanding of performance marketing metrics, attribution modelling and creative testing.
• Understanding of industry trends and a view of the role of agencies in an ever changing AI impacted world.
• Equally comfortable and experienced managing small media spends £10k/pm up to large paid media budgets £150k/pm.