> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/3327611-paid-social-specialist](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/3327611-paid-social-specialist). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md).

---

# Paid Social Specialist

- **Company:** Releaf
- **Location:** UK
- **Salary:** £40,000.0 - £50,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Spreadsheets, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5875641397

## About the Role

Essential

 * Strong, demonstrable, hands-on Meta paid social experience - this is the core of the role.
 * Proven track record managing significant paid social budgets with direct accountability for performance.
 * Genuine creative instinct: you can spot why an ad is or isn't working and turn that into the next test.
 * Comfortable with measurement - platform reporting, GA4, and the gap between the two.
 * Confident with numbers: spreadsheets, forecasting, spotting anomalies quickly.
 * Able to work independently and prioritise. This is a hands-on role with real ownership.

Desirable

 * Experience across other paid social platforms
 * Agency background, or in-house experience in a tightly regulated industry (healthcare, pharma, financial services, gambling, legal or similar).
 * Working knowledge of German - useful for our German-language activity, but not a requirement.
 * Conversions API / server-side tracking, Google Tag Manager, consent mode.
 * Hands-on ability to cut or edit creative yourself
 * Experience with influencer, affiliate or organic social as adjacent channels.

We're open on background. If you can prove you're excellent on Meta and rigorous with data, we want to hear from you.

## Description

You will report into the Head of Performance Marketing and work closely with our Paid Search Specialist. You'll own and scale our paid social programme across Meta and other social channels.

Meta is our core paid social channel and where the majority of budget sits - this role lives in Ads Manager daily, managing significant spend against real performance targets. Beyond that, we want someone who can help us test and build out other platforms as we grow.

This is an operational role, not an oversight role. You'll be building campaigns, briefing and testing creative, managing budgets, reading the data and making decisions based on this. You'll be doing it in a category where advertising is tightly regulated, so accuracy and compliance matter as much as performance., * Own day-to-day management of Meta paid social activity - campaign structure, audiences, budgets, bidding, placements and creative rotation across Facebook and Instagram.

 * Manage and pace significant monthly spend against CPA and volume targets, with clear forecasting and in-month course correction.
 * Run a continuous creative testing roadmap: hooks, formats, angles, static vs video, UGC, landing page pairings.
 * Brief creative clearly and specifically - you'll know what you want to test and why, and you'll be able to tell the design team what good looks like.
 * Own the technical setup: pixel and Conversions API, event configuration, catalogue and audience management, and troubleshooting when signal quality drops.
 * Work within advertising policy and regulatory restrictions specific to our sector - making sure every ad, asset and landing page is compliant before it goes live, and managing rejections, restrictions and appeals when they happen.
 * Own the relationship with Meta's account and support teams, and get the most out of betas and alpha access.
 * Test, scale or sunset activity on other platforms such as TikTok or Pinterest based on evidence
 * Build the business case for new channel investment and run those tests properly, with clean measurement and a clear read.
 * Own paid social reporting: weekly performance, monthly business reviews and ad hoc deep dives for leadership.
 * Analyse performance end to end in GA4 alongside platform data, and be able to explain the discrepancies confidently rather than picking whichever number looks best.
 * Use incrementality testing, geo tests, holdouts or lift studies to establish what paid social is genuinely delivering.
 * Feed insight back into creative, landing pages and offers - you'll be expected to have a point of view on what should change and why.