Senior Paid Social Specialist

Senior Paid Social Specialist
Cardiff
£40K – £50K

Page 1 Recruitment is proud to be partnering with a fast-growing, specialist comparison platform based in Cardiff. As the business continues to scale, our client is looking to appoint a Senior Paid Social Specialist to take ownership of paid social performance and play a key role in the next phase of growth. Known for their friendly, inclusive, and highly supportive culture, this is a business that genuinely values its people. You’ll be joining a performance-driven team that balances commercial ambition with a strong focus on autonomy, evidence-led decision making, and work–life balance.

This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role, offering full technical ownership of paid social performance across Meta, TikTok, and emerging platforms, with responsibility for meaningful budgets and commercial risk.

About You

• Extensive hands-on experience in paid social within performance-led environments
• Demonstrable end-to-end ownership of paid social campaigns across Meta and/or TikTok
• Strong experience managing, scaling, and optimising meaningful paid social budgets
• A structured, evidence-led approach to testing, optimisation, and insight generation
• Strong capability planning, briefing, and iterating paid social creative across static and video formats
• Ability to diagnose performance shifts and clearly explain decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes
• Clear communicator able to collaborate effectively with Paid Media, SEO, Content, Design, Operations, and Sales teams

Bonus Points

• Meta or TikTok certifications
• Experience refining testing frameworks or defining paid social best-practice standards
• Hands-on creative production experience using Canva or Adobe tools
• Familiarity with CRO principles and insight-led creative optimisation

What’s in it for you

• £40K – £50K DOE
• Annual pay review
• Two paid weeks off over Christmas and New Year, plus annual leave
• Birthday and work-anniversary paid leave
• Bupa private medical and dental cover
• Flexitime between 6am and 8pm, with no core hours
• Enhanced pension contribution
• Free city-centre parking
• Monthly takeaway Fridays, Employee of the Month awards, and regular team socials
• Clear opportunity to grow within a scaling paid media function

Please note this is a fully onsite role, based in central Cardiff, five days per week.

Interested? Click “Apply” or contact Page 1 Recruitment today to find out more.