Hybrid Social Media Lead

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About the role

  • Senior role at Zopa leading the paid social strategy for Biscuit, their current account. Focused on creative direction, performance optimization, and community management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead paid social strategy and ongoing performance optimisation across Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Reddit
  • Run creative test cycles, spot winning patterns quickly and drive continual improvement in performance
  • Set the creative direction for social, ensuring content is platform native, culturally relevant and refreshed at the right pace
  • Build a scalable creative system that maintains high output without compromising quality
  • Translate narrative strategy into effective paid testing frameworks that enhance both brand and performance
  • Work closely with digital performance, analytics, marketing, creative, PR, compliance and product marketing to align on goals and insights
  • Define the role of each social channel across paid and organic, shaping core, emerging and experimental activity
  • Guide organic content direction to build trust, credibility and cultural relevance alongside acquisition goals
  • Identify cultural signals and platform trends early and convert them into actionable opportunities
  • Oversee community management, ensuring consistent, reputation safe engagement and managing escalations when needed
  • Manage agency partners with clear briefs, high creative expectations and disciplined performance oversight
  • Produce clear insights and narratives for weekly and monthly reviews, highlighting what is working and what needs to change
  • Drive experimentation, evaluating new formats, channels and betas and deciding where to test and scale

Requirements

  • Strong creative capability, with sharp platform intuition across Meta, TikToK, Reddit and more
  • Able to instantly identify what makes content land, with an eye for behaviours, cultural shifts and emerging formats
  • Commercially minded, with a solid understanding of CAC, CTR, CPM, conversion windows and creative decay
  • Equally motivated by performance outcomes and brand personality
  • Confident running paid social at scale, managing always-on and campaign cycles
  • Experienced in briefing and holding agencies accountable, and comfortable making swift, calm optimisation decisions
  • Hands-on knowledge of TikTok Ads Manager, Meta Ads, YouTube performance and mobile app campaigns
  • Clear and confident communicator, able to translate data into compelling narrative
  • Reputation aware, understanding the demands of regulated industries
  • Experienced in social community management, escalation processes or crisis situations

Benefits

  • flexible ways of working
  • face-to-face collaboration
  • good work-life balance
  • opportunity to work from abroad for up to 120 days a year
  • diversity hiring process

Job title

Social Media Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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