Paid Media Lead

Paid Media Lead

Department: Ecommerce, Web & Digital Marketing

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Cambridge, UK

Description

We are looking for a Paid Media Lead to help shape and execute performance marketing strategy across the inMusic ecosystem. This role owns paid media planning, campaign execution, measurement, optimization, and cross-functional coordination across channels that may include paid social, search, display, video, retargeting, and full-funnel performance programs. The right candidate will combine analytical rigor, practical campaign expertise, and a creator-first understanding of how music technology audiences discover, evaluate, and purchase products.

What You'll Do

• Define and execute paid media strategies that support acquisition, conversion, lifecycle, launch, and revenue goals across relevant inMusic brands and digital properties.
• Plan, launch, optimize, and measure paid social, search, display, video, and retargeting campaigns across web, shop, and product-led customer journeys.
• Own campaign performance reporting, test planning, forecasting, and optimization recommendations.
• Develop practical experimentation plans across audiences, creative, messaging, landing pages, funnel stages, attribution, and incrementality.
• Partner with brand, product marketing, content, creative, e-commerce, analytics, CRM, and web teams to improve campaign effectiveness and customer experience.
• Identify opportunities to scale repeatable paid media practices, tooling, reporting, and governance across the inMusic portfolio.
• Guide agencies, partners, or internal contributors where appropriate, ensuring campaign quality, clear priorities, and accountable execution.

What You Bring

• Experience building and optimizing paid media programs across channels such as Google Ads, Meta, YouTube, search, display, paid social, retargeting, or similar performance platforms.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort using measurement frameworks, reporting tools, attribution models, A/B testing, incrementality concepts, and campaign-level performance data.
• Ability to translate performance insight into practical action plans that improve acquisition efficiency, revenue, conversion, retention, and ROI.
• Experience working cross-functionally with marketing, web/e-commerce, analytics, creative, content, product, and external partners.
• Budget ownership or budget pacing experience, with sound judgment around investment trade-offs and performance forecasting.
• Clear communication skills, strong attention to campaign quality, and the ability to explain recommendations to both marketing specialists and senior stakeholders.
• Interest in music technology, creator tools, audio products, or the culture of music creation.

Why Join Us

• Work on brands and products used by creators, producers, performers, DJs, and musicians around the world.
• Help shape how inMusic reaches, serves, and grows creator communities across a global portfolio of brands.
• Join a practical, creative environment that values clear thinking, measurable impact, and cross-functional partnership.