About the role
- Lead paid social creative 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
About you
- 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
Nice to haves
- Experience in fintech or other regulated sectors
- Ability to produce short-form video or direct creators
- Familiarity with AI tools for creative production
- Experience with social listening and publishing platforms such as Hootsuite
What success looks like
- Paid social performance is a key driver for for current account customer acquisition at an affordable CAC (we have ambitious targets in 2026)
- Clear and strong narratives that drive higher creative impact
- Our brand shows up in ways that feel modern, sharp and culturally connected
- Organic content is smart, timely and increasingly high engagement
- Community management is disciplined, consistent and reputation-safe
- Incidents are handled confidently, with fast and trusted social comms
- Teams trust you as the social expert who makes things better, sharper and more effective
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What We Do
We’re Zopa, and we want to make money work better for you. Our diverse team is united in their mission of creating simple, fair and honest financial products that have the customer’s needs at their heart. We’re proud that this dedication is reflected in our excellent rating on TrustPilot. We’ve always been unapologetically honest with our customers, and value the same in return. Their feedback helps us shape what we build, so we can provide a bank fit for today, and for the future. We’re not the new kids on the block though - we’ve been a pioneering force in finance for 16 years. In 2005, we built the first ever peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company, giving our customers access to loans built for real-life and intelligent investments backed by cutting-edge tech. In 2020, we launched Zopa Bank, meaning we could offer more – like fixed term savings backed by FSCS protection and a credit card to help customers take control of their finances. We’ve lent out over £6 billion and are proud to have made money work better for over half a million people across the UK, whether they were looking to borrow or save.








