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Now castingPPC Media Buyer

Fully remote, UK business hoursIndependent contractor · long-term retainer£30k to £40k a year equivalent

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Who Alphageek works with

  • Casio
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  • DoNotAge
  • Organixx
02 · The company

Alphageek runs paid social, Google, email and creative for D2C and FMCG brands, with teams in the UK and Dubai.

Their own line is no juniors running your spend. Most delivery seats are independent contractors, and this is one of them.

Client
Alphageek
Kind
D2C performance agency
Brands
100s of D2C brands supported
Ad spend
$10,000,000s managed
A Google launch
14.16x ROAS on £320k+, from zero data

Figures from Alphageek.

03 · The part

You run a portfolio of Google Ads accounts end to end: the plan, the build, the daily pacing, and the client call where you present the numbers.

£5k to £100k+
Monthly budgets on your accounts
Six
Google campaign types you run
  • 01Monthly and quarterly channel plans
  • 02Forecasts against revenue, CPA, ROAS and new customers
  • 03Search, Shopping, Performance Max, Demand Gen, Display and YouTube
  • 04Daily budget pacing
  • 05Tests with a hypothesis and a read window
  • 06GA4, Merchant Center, feeds and tracking
  • 07Platform numbers reconciled with the client’s own
  • 08Weekly, monthly and quarterly client calls
More on the part

You know the client’s margins, seasonality and growth plans, and you turn them into a structure and a testing roadmap that hits the number. If something in the account is wrong, it’s yours to fix or escalate.

04 · What the seat offers

  1. A long-term retainerOngoing ownership of your own client portfolio. Not short-term execution work.
  2. Your own client callsYou present the numbers, make the recommendation and own the outcome.
  3. D2C and FMCG brandsAccounts spending from £5k to £100k+ a month.
  4. A team around youYou report to the PPC Strategist and work with Client Success, Analytics, Technical and Creative.
  5. The hoursFully remote and flexible, with UK business hours kept for client calls and check-ins.
05 · Cue sheet

Five gates. If you clear all five, apply.

  1. Gate 01

    3 to 5+ years hands-on

    Buying PPC yourself, across Search, Shopping, Performance Max, Display and YouTube.

  2. Gate 02

    £5k to £100k+ a month

    Budgets in that range, managed by you.

  3. Gate 03

    The measurement stack

    GA4, Google Tag Manager, Merchant Center, and Looker Studio or equivalent.

  4. Gate 04

    Commercial with it

    Margin, LTV and blended efficiency, used to make the call. Not quoted.

  5. Gate 05

    You lead the call

    You’ve presented performance to senior client stakeholders and held a recommendation under challenge.

Nice to have: agency or multi-client work, Shopify, WooCommerce or Magento and feed tools, server-side tracking or enhanced conversions, incrementality or geo-lift testing, Google Ads certifications, Microsoft Ads, and blended targets shared with a paid social team.

06 · Apply

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PS, Shannon

Don’t tell us you’re passionate. Tell us what you did, what broke and what you’d do differently. That’s the application a founder remembers, and it’s the one I’ll pick up the phone for.

Shannon Press · Senior Talent Manager · Puck