Performance Marketing Manager (Paid Social)

Join the Revolution in Car Finance 🚗💥 At Carmoola, we’re changing the way people get on the road – making it faster, fairer, and entirely built around the customer. We’ve reimagined car finance from the ground up with a seamless digital experience that puts drivers in control. Since launch, we’ve raised over £540m from top-tier investors (including QED) and helped over 20,000+ customers get behind the wheel. We’ve been named #66 in the 2026 Sifted 100, ranking the UK & Ireland's fastest-growing startups by revenue growth, for the 2nd year running - and we're not stopping there. To take things to the next level, we’re looking for a structured, curious, and execution-obsessed Performance Marketing Manager, with a core focus on Paid Social, to help power one of our most important growth engines. This role is perfect for someone who loves experimenting, learning fast, and getting hands-on across channels. Your Mission 🏢 You’ll be a driving force behind the execution of our multi-channel performance marketing campaigns - helping us run smarter, tighter, and faster across Meta and Paid Search, with the opportunity to expand into channels such as CRM and affiliate marketing as we grow. We’re looking for someone who gets energy from rolling up their sleeves: launching tests, building campaigns, checking performance dashboards, spotting trends, and pushing constant iteration. You’ll support the team across the entire funnel, ensuring our messages reach the right people with the right impact, at the right moment. You’ll work closely with channel owners, creative, analytics, and product teams to help scale what works — and learn quickly from what doesn’t. This is a high-growth role where you’ll build full-stack performance skills while making a real impact. What You’ll Be Doing Launch and optimise high-quality campaigns across Meta and Paid Search, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and best-practice execution every step of the way Support a structured testing roadmap — running experiments across audiences, creatives, messaging, placements, bidding strategies, and more Build, QA, and refine campaign setups, tracking, and targeting to ensure we’re always learning and improving Get performance assets live quickly and learn what resonates with our audience Monitor daily performance, spot trends early, and help shape recommendations to improve efficiency and scale Transform insights into actionable tweaks across channels — from tightening the brief to refining targeting to unlocking new pockets of growth Document learnings, wins, and “what we tried” to help develop our channel playbooks and raise the bar every week Potential to own CRM execution end-to-end (TBC on team structure): building segments, scheduling sends, and ensuring customers receive timely, value-led communication About You You’re T-shaped: you have a solid foundation (3-5 years of experience) across channels, and a clear interest in going deep in at least one You’re obsessed with experimentation, numbers, and growth You enjoy getting hands-on with platforms and tools — from Ads Manager to Google Ads to CRM systems You’re structured, organised, and enjoy the detail that makes campaigns run smoothly You thrive in fast-paced environments where you can get involved, try new things, and learn quickly You love turning insights into action — testing constantly, iterating relentlessly, and pushing for better results Why Join Carmoola? Competitive salary range of £50-65k Hybrid working: 3 days a week in our London office, in the heart of beautiful Primrose Hill A high-impact role with room to grow. You'll own a core area of our performance marketing – with the opportunity to shape and expand the role over time by delivering real results and unlocking new growth opportunities A culture of trust, kindness, and ownership. We move fast, support each other, and enjoy the ride