Head of Growth, Ballpoint
Paid Social Specialism
£70-90k
Share optionals available
4+ days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
Full service, creative growth agency
Be an early applicant
Full service, creative growth agency
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
£70-90k
Share optionals available
4+ days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To become the UK's most trusted and biggest growth agency.
Role
Who you are
- Deep experience growing consumer paid social accounts profitably: ideally from ~£15-25k/month up to £100-200k/month
- Technical understanding of attribution windows, the breakdown effect
- Broad marketing experience that shows you understand how all channels play together
- Analytical skills where you’re deeply comfortable pulling data and analysing it
- Practical experience of the marketing funnel: how to speak to and convert clients throughout the funnel
- Understanding of different measurement frameworks (attribution, incrementality, MMM) and how to apply them
- Excellent communication where you can both (a) explain highly complex subjects to smart generalists, and (b) talk in full detail alongside highly experienced individual contributors
Desirable
- One other channel with working experience: paid search, CRO, affiliates, SEO, etc
- Growth modelling and forecasting (we often build the growth models mapping retention, payback, lifetime value etc, for our clients)
- Data analysis using SQL or python
- Growth frameworks, mindset, and process
- Direct response copywriting
- Meta API coding
- Experience running lift or incrementality tests, or MMMs
- Experience building growth loops across customer lifecycle
- Establishing a brand within new markets
- Brand marketing experience, with bonus points for effective measurement using an MMM
- Process-driven and operational
- Creative strategy: if you’ve built our ads yourself that have converted
What the job involves
- Growth of the client’s business: predominantly through the scaling of paid acquisition while maintaining or improving profitability
- Strategy, analysis, and responsibility for the day-to-day management of our client accounts (paid social)
- Working closely with our internal client team of creative strategists, media buyers, creative production, and data engineering
- The owner of the clients’ growth process. Its on you to come up with the ideas, turn those into experiments, sell those ideas to the client, then run those experiments methodically and scientifically
Application process
- Initial 30 minute phone screen to judge motivation, communication, and high-level aptitude for the role
- 2 in-person interviews including a case study challenge
- Final decision and offer
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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