Advertising/Performance Marketing Team Lead at Web Summit driving paid media strategy and managing a growing team across various platforms.
Responsibilities
Lead the paid media strategy for all Web Summit events, ensuring activity contributes directly to lead and revenue targets.
Drive measurable ROAS and ensure paid media meaningfully contributes to pipeline and overall marketing performance.
Manage, mentor and grow the advertising team, with clear workflows, expectations and development plans.
Oversee campaign planning and execution across Meta, Google, LinkedIn and emerging platforms, ensuring quality, accuracy and alignment with our messaging and creative approach.
Partner closely with creative teams to brief, refine and evolve copy and assets so campaigns land clearly and resonate with each audience.
Own the annual advertising budget and monthly performance tracking, identifying efficiencies and areas for reinvestment.
Partner with Analytics, Data Science and FP&A to create transparent, actionable and accurate performance reporting and forecasting.
Build documentation, testing frameworks and repeatable systems that support learning and scale across events.
Work cross-functionally with marketing operations, website, email and data teams to ensure full-funnel alignment and fuel pipeline generation.
Collaborate with the Advertising Principal Lead on experimentation, new platform testing and long-term growth initiatives.
Ensure adherence to best practice across QA, spend pacing, attribution tracking and platform governance.
Requirements
7+ years’ experience in advertising or performance marketing, with hands-on management of Meta, Google and LinkedIn campaigns.
Experience in every stage of the paid media cycle, from shaping ideas and audiences to guiding creative, execution, optimisation and reporting.
Proven track record of driving strong ROI and ROAS across multi-million-euro media budgets.
2+ years’ experience managing and developing teams.
Understanding of how paid media campaigns are structured, from segmentation and targeting to optimisation, creative and attribution.
Ability to lead creative thinking as well as structured execution, bringing strong judgment to messaging, positioning and audience-content fit.
Experience tailoring strategy across countries and regions, adapting audience and messaging to suit local dynamics.
Comfortable working with paid media reporting frameworks and translating insight into clear next steps.
Ability to brief and refine copy and creative for paid channels, ensuring messaging is clear, relevant and aligned with the audience.
Work well cross-functionally and bring clarity, alignment and accountability through communication.
Strategic thinker who’s comfortable diving into campaign detail when needed.
Enjoy building systems, documentation and ways of working that support scalable, high-quality delivery.
Benefits
Subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme (EAP) and more.
Pension contribution up to 6%(Irish based only)
A dedicated in-house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and resources to help you excel in your career development.
Company laptop, generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
Our very own Tramway Team, which drives community and morale-boosting events for employees to participate in.
Annual company get-togethers, charity days, and monthly wellbeing talks.
Wellness subsidy issued to all employees of €1000 per year
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