Paid Social Executive

Dark Horse are recruiting for a Paid Social Executive, check it out now!

Location: Hybrid with 2 days per week in our Altrincham office
Salary: £25,000-£30,000 dependent on experience
Contract: Full Time, Permanent

What’s on offer:

• Competitive salary, £25k to £30k dependent on experience
• Quarterly bonus based on team performance
• Hybrid working – 2 days a week in office
• Flexitime
• 27 days annual leave
• Plus your Birthday off
• Mental Wellbeing Bupa EAP programme available
• Altrincham – 100 yards from Stamford Park, rich people and 1bn Cavapoos
• Dark Horse will carbon offset your role with The Dark Forest (10k Tree Target)
• Working in an amazing team – learning from some fantastic people

About Us:

Dark Horse is a fast-growing performance marketing agency specialising in Paid Social, PPC, SEO and Digital PR. For the chosen few, we offer a great career path working with some of the top professionals in the industry.

We have one aim… to build the best paid social team in the country and prove this by smashing our clients’ targets.

Reporting directly to the Head of Paid Social, you’ll play a hands-on role in supporting the planning, building, and management of full funnel paid social campaigns.

There will be opportunities to brief and create content for both paid and organic social to further support client success.

With full training available on all paid social platforms, once ready you will:

• Assist in building and delivering paid social strategies across Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Pinterest, Linked In and X.
• Support the team in managing campaign budgets and ensuring effective budget allocation.
• Contributing to monthly reports and sharing insights.
• Build creative briefs and content to be used on paid and/or organic social channels.
• Assist with the management of client social media accounts.
• Lead the communication with your clients including emails and scheduled Teams calls.

• Curious and eager to develop expertise in paid social.
• Comfortable working with data, interpreting insights, and making data-driven decisions.
• Interested in marketing funnels, customer journeys, and attribution models.
• A strong communicator who can simplify complex information.
• Organised and able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience of creating content for social media.
• Passionate about keeping up with trends and developments in social media and digital marketing.
• An interest and appetite for using and testing AI.
• Any exposure to social platforms – even from personal projects or studies.

This role is perfect for someone looking to develop a career in digital marketing with hands‑on training and development opportunities. If you’re driven and ready to grow, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a hybrid role based in Altrincham. No remote applications.

Registered Office: 36B Speirs Wharf, Port Dundas, Glasgow, G4 9TG

Company Reg No.

- SC372990 | VAT Reg No.

- GB