AI Marketing Manager

Salary: £45k–£50k DOE + performance bonus. We back talent and ambition. Show us the impact you can make and we will show you the package to match.

We are LDOT®, a digital-first marketing agency in Southampton with a simple obsession: design that blows jaws off and campaigns that actually deliver ROI. No jargon, no fluff. Just world-class work that punches above its weight and makes competitors cry into their dashboards.

A big part of that is Lead Tap®, our proven growth system for service businesses. Ads, landing pages, quiz funnels, CRM, automation and follow-up, combined into one lead engine. Our landing pages convert at 18%+ against an industry average of 3–5%, and we back the whole thing with our 30-Lead Floor Guarantee™: 30 qualified leads in 90 days or every penny back.

Here is what has changed: we have rebuilt how Lead Tap gets delivered. The work that used to need a strategist, a copywriter, a designer, a developer and a technical specialist now runs through one systemised, AI-powered process, with AI doing the heavy lifting. What that process needs now is a team of sharp marketers to run it.

That is the job.

This is not just another Marketing Manager job. This role barely existed a year ago.

You will be the orchestrator of Lead Tap® delivery, owning every client build from strategy call to live, converting campaign. AI drafts the messaging, writes the landing page copy, builds the follow-up sequences. You are the marketing brain directing it: briefing it, challenging it, and knowing when it is wrong.

Because here is the thing: AI writes confident copy. So do bad marketers. Your value is knowing the difference.

You will work alongside project managers and paid performance specialists. You will not be doing production grunt work. You will be doing the thinking: strategy, judgement, diagnosis, client confidence. One team, running the whole engine.

• Run client strategy calls (we have the questions documented, but scripts do not spot the throwaway comment that becomes the winning angle - you do). Nail the ideal customer, the real differentiator and the offer.
• Orchestrate the full Lead Tap® process with AI: from strategy to messaging to landing page to automated follow-up, at a pace that used to take a team.
• Act as the quality gate on everything AI produces. Validate messaging against what you know converts. Push back. Redirect. Never rubber‑stamp.
• Diagnose performance like a marketer, not a dashboard‑watcher: spot whether it is a traffic problem, a message problem or a follow‑up problem, then work with AI and our paid specialists to fix it.
• Own client confidence: present results and next steps with clarity (no vanity metrics).
• Make the system itself sharper every month: better prompts, better playbooks, better process. You are not just running the machine, you are helping build it.

• 5+ years in performance / conversion‑led marketing where you were personally accountable for results.
• You can smell weak messaging at ten paces, and you can articulate why it is weak.
• Client‑facing confidence: you ask revealing questions, handle pushback and hold the room.
• You understand offers, ideal customer profiles and buyer intent, not just channels.

• You already use AI (Claude, ChatGPT or similar) daily for real client‑grade work, not novelty.
• You direct AI rather than defer to it: brief it, critique it, iterate it, and overrule it when it is wrong.
• Genuine curiosity about prompts, workflows and automation. You see AI as leverage, not a threat.

• Data‑led decision making: confident with GA4, GTM, conversion tracking and funnel drop‑off analysis.
• You can reverse‑engineer a target (leads needed, conversion rate required, cost per lead ceiling) and diagnose from the numbers.
• Experimentation mindset: test, learn, compound.

Because average is not in our vocabulary.

Here you will:

• Run the most leveraged marketing role we know of: one team owning outcomes end‑to‑end, instead of being one cog passing work between five teams.
• Define a role that barely exists anywhere else yet, and shape the playbook others will copy.
• Work with AI the way the rest…