Head of Paid Media responsible for strategic planning and execution to enhance Trade Nation's subscriber growth. Managing paid channels and leading team towards performance goals in an regulated environment.
Responsibilities
Defining the near- and long-term paid media strategy to deliver against subscriber/account acquisition and FTT goals.
Planning and executing the global strategy across paid media and performance partner channels (affiliates/referrals where applicable), with continual improvement based on results.
Building a clear channel roadmap: PPC and paid social first; then expanding into programmatic/CTV/mobile-only when incrementality and measurement standards are met.
Owning Google Ads account standards: structure, naming, query quality, negatives hygiene, ads, assets, and extensions.
Leading the account rebuild and stabilisation, including agency management and knowledge transfer.
Maintaining change control, experimenting discipline, and posting-change evaluation.
Launching paid social in a controlled way: clear test plans, creative angles, audiences, measurement ladder, and stop rules.
Partnering with Studio and Brand to build a repeatable creative system: concepts, variants, refresh cadence, and documentation.
Setting rules around frequency, exclusions, and audience overlap to protect efficiency and user experience.
Identifying, testing, and scaling new channels that can contribute to growth, such as programmatic display/video, CTV/addressable TV, and mobile campaigns.
Defining clear entry criteria per channel: measurement readiness, minimum data requirements, test design, and kill criteria.
Running incrementality testing where feasible (holdouts, geo tests, lift studies), with Data support.
Delivering investment, acquisition, and CAC forecasts, with ongoing re-planning based on actual results.
Delivering overall and channel-level performance analysis and reporting, including campaign measurement and evaluation.
Keeping a clean weekly performance narrative that ties spend to funnel movement and early payback signals.
Partnering with the data analytics team and external partners to improve attribution, forecasting, and measurement capability.
Partnering with the data analytics team to improve the quality, accuracy, and automation of reporting.
Ensuring platform conversions map to the agreed event ladder (apply, approved, funded, first trade).
Partnering with the integrated marketing team and the Creative Studio on all paid campaigns to ensure messaging, creative, and landing pages are aligned.
Ensuring paid media briefs are clear, testable, and compliance-ready (claims references, risk lines, version control).
Working closely with Organic Growth and Lifecycle on message match and on-site conversion priorities.
Leading and develop a high-performing team of growth marketers, with clear goals and coaching.
Hiring and managing manager-level support as volume grows (PPC Manager, Paid Social Manager).
Managing agencies and contractors with clear scope, deliverables, and handover expectations.
Requirements
Proven experience owning paid media for a performance-led business, including hands-on execution.
Strong depth in Google Ads, plus experience designing and running paid social testing.
Strong measurement instincts: conversion definitions, QA, and working closely with analytics and engineering partners.
Good judgement in regulated advertising and approvals, with a practical approach to audit trails.
Clear communicator who can run a disciplined weekly cadence and make trade-offs.
Preferred requirements
Experience in trading, investing, fintech, or similarly regulated sectors.
Experience scaling across multiple regions and entities, including localisation constraints.
Experience with offline conversion links and cohort-based evaluation.
Programmatic experience (agency-led is fine).
App acquisition or re-engagement campaign experience.
Benefits
Competitive salary, and discretionary annual bonus.
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