JOIN OUR JOURNEY
Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry. We’re a media agency that’s made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent.
Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is recognised and rewarded. There are no limits to what you can achieve here, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign Best Place to Work for six consecutive years and one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025. As well as this, we’re Campaign’s Independent Agency of the Year 2024 and Media Week’s Independent Agency of the Year 2025.
We are IPA Effectiveness accredited, an IPA People-First agency, and All In Champions, with industry-leading work recognised by double-gold at the 2024 IPA Effectiveness Awards for our work with Laithwaites and a 2025 Effie for our work with Alzheimer’s Society.
Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people. We work with a wide variety of clients including Hovis, IG, Sharps Bedrooms, SunLife, Standard Life, Ancestry, Laithwaites Wine, Save the Children, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI and Clearscore.
Working at Medialab comes with lots of perks including all the usual things you would expect, such as a competitive salary package, pension, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, weekly social events and big summer / end of year parties.
On top of that, we offer extra benefits, which make life at Medialab even more rewarding:
Time to Unwind – We offer generous holiday entitlement that increases with long service, plus Christmas closure and a birthday day off. Alongside this, we offer flexible benefits including a holiday buy scheme, flexi-hours, a work abroad scheme, cultural bank holiday swaps, and Friday Summer hours.
Health & Wellbeing – Private medical insurance, health cash plan, gym discounts, wellbeing apps Mental Health First Aiders and free professional counselling.
YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE
We are looking for a Paid Social Account Executive to join our growing Digital Team and play an important role in delivering brilliant paid social campaigns for some of the UK’s most ambitious brands and charities.
This role is ideal for someone who already has some experience in paid social, or a strong grounding in digital media, and wants to build deeper channel expertise across platforms such as Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest and emerging social environments. You’ll gain hands-on experience across brand and performance campaigns, contribute to planning and optimisation discussions.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
You will help keep client and internal teams updated through clear status reports, meeting notes, action trackers, and timely follow-ups.
MUST HAVE SKILLS
Some hands-on experience or strong foundational knowledge of paid social activation, ideally across Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest or similar social platforms.
A good understanding of core paid social metrics, such as impressions, reach, CPM, CPC, CTR, CVR, CPA, ROAS and budget pacing.
Some understanding of tracking, tagging, pixels, UTMs, GA4 or conversion measurement.
Exposure to wider digital channels such as Paid Search, Display, Video, Programmatic or Partnerships.
