Paid Search/PPC Manager, Ballpoint
£50-60k
4 days a week in office (Clerkenwell, London)
Full service, creative growth agency
Be an early applicant
Full service, creative growth agency
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
£50-60k
4 days a week in office (Clerkenwell, London)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To become the UK's most trusted and biggest growth agency.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years running Google and Microsoft Ads for scaling eCommerce brands
- Strong experience across Search, Shopping, Display and Performance Max, with experience with YouTube campaigns expected
- Proven ability to hit/exceed ROAS, CPA and contribution margin targets
- Excellent analytical skills using Looker, GA4, Shopify or similar
- Ability to forecast, budget and structure accounts for scale
- Strong commercial judgement, whilst knowing what moves the business, not just the numbers
- Clear, concise communicator who can explain complex performance in a simple manner
Desirable
- Experience scaling accounts from £0 to £100k+ annual spend
- Understanding of attribution models, MMM and incrementality testing
- A sharp understanding of paid social (to help contextualise PPC results)
- Experience linking first-party data and managing clean conversion setups
What the job involves
- Be the go to PPC operator, responsible for daily performance, structure, scale and profitability
- Stay ahead of platform changes (AI shifts, zero-click trends, algorithm updates)
- Manage, optimise and scale campaigns daily
- Control budgets, pacing and make essential scaling decisions
- Build efficient campaign structures
- Proactively conduct commercial-focused keyword research, and write sharp, effective ad copy
- Set and manage meaningful KPIs
- Forecast accurately and drive campaign performance to hit and exceed critical ROAS/CPA targets
- Maintain clean data across Looker, GA4, Shopify and other core analytics tools
- Troubleshoot tracking issues. Clean data is non-negotiable!
- Run structured, commercially-led experiments
- Test bidding strategies, audiences, landing pages and creative variations
- Work closely with our Growth Strategist to provide unified performance insights
- Contextualise PPC within the wider growth picture
- Ensure clients get a clear, honest view of what’s working (and what isn’t)
Application process
- 1. Send in Application
- 2. Screen Call
- 3. Interview with team
- 4. Final stage interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Growing a brand today can be messy business. Between ads, content, design, data, and dozens of platforms that change by the week, it's hard for startups to know where to focus (or how to turn attention into real, profitable growth). And the traditional playbook just isn't cutting it anymore, especially for small teams trying to break into crowded markets.
That's where Ballpoint steps in. Its a young agency (launched in 2023) but already making waves helping early-stage brands like Thriva, Glaize, and Mother Root grow into big brands. It has a creative-led, modern approach that's focused on digital advertising that actually drives sales, not just clicks.
With a small but mighty team and experience from top brands like AG1, TALA, and Farfetch, Ballpoint is ambitious about becoming the UK's go-to growth agency, and judging by its early momentum, it's well on it's way.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- A highly-creative office in Clerkenwell/Farringdon where you'll work with the rest of the team for four days of each week (fully flexible Mondays)
- Share options in the company – this grants you future options to benefit from the company's success in the future
- Dozens of challenger brand snacks so we can taste the future clients we want to be working with
- 28 days holiday excluding bank holidays
- Summer Party for staff, clients, and close friends of the agency
- Monthly team socials – everything from pottery to go-karting, from Crystal Maze to lifesize Monopoly. We leave the choices here up to the team
- Discounts for all client products – so you can get to benefit from working directly with them
- 5% employer pension contribution – helping you build your longterm future
- 1x annual overnight offsite – to set company strategy, get to know each other better, and test out ideas we might not do day-to-day. This year we went to a chateau in the south of France
- 10 WFH days to use at your leisure – for when you feel like an extra day working away (can be used to work fully remotely for a week away if you like)
- 5% employer pension contribution – helping you build your longterm future
Company HQ
Farringdon, London
Leadership
Josh Lachkovic
(CEO)Former startup founder, former in-house Head of Growth, turned Agency founder.
Fiona Chapman
(Head of Operations, Creative Studio)Previously a Freelance Event & Content Producer/Community Consultant. Also worked as a Tech Event & Content Manager at Le Wagon and as a Studio Manager at Ackerman Studios.
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