Manager, Paid Media

About HYVE

HYVE Media is an independent media agency built for how marketing works today. Founded in 2026, with teams in Dubai, Riyadh and Cairo, we help ambitious brands across the GCC grow through paid media, organic media, data and analytics, and customer experience. Our own technology, Honeycomb, connects more than 150 data sources to HYVE Memory, so AI works alongside our team every day while human judgement stays at the centre. At HYVE, everyone takes the lead, from intern to partner. We judge our work by its impact on a client’s business, share what we learn quickly and give feedback in every direction, so careers grow as fast as the results we deliver.

The role

You’ll run day-to-day paid media delivery for a set of client accounts. You’ll own each account’s media plan and optimisation roadmap, make sure campaigns are built and run to a high standard, guide our specialists, and be the main point of contact for clients on the work.

What you'll do

• Plan and manage paid media across Google, Meta and other platforms, from budget splits and audience strategy to bidding and optimisation
• Own campaign performance for your accounts, keeping spend on pace and results on track against targets
• Build and run structured testing roadmaps across creative, audiences, bidding and landing pages, to name a few
• Own monthly reporting, with a clear performance story, insights and next actions, not just numbers
• Make sure tracking, conversion setup and dashboards are accurate, working with data and tech teams to fix issues quickly
• Use Honeycomb every day to plan, optimise and report on your accounts, and help shape how it develops
• Stay up to date with the latest AI models and tools, and find new ways to use them to make the team’s work more efficient
• Lead client calls and build trusted working relationships
• Guide and develop junior team members, briefing and reviewing their work and helping them build their platform skills
• Uphold quality standards on everything that goes live
• Support senior colleagues on media strategies, proposals and new business pitches

What you'll bring

• 4 to 6 years of hands-on experience running paid campaigns across Google Ads and Meta, ideally within an agency
• Strong platform skills, from campaign structures and bidding strategies to audience building
• Confidence with GA4, Excel or Google Sheets and reporting tools
• Experience guiding or developing junior team members
• Comfortable using AI tools, with good judgement on when to trust them
• Clear communication and strong organisation, with the ability to stay calm when deadlines are tight
• Experience with TikTok, Snapchat, X, LinkedIn or programmatic would be a strong plus
• Arabic language skills are helpful but not essential

What HYVE offers

• Annual leave that grows with you, with extra days every time you’re promoted
• An extra day off each year for your birthday or a religious or cultural celebration that matters to you
• A team that shares what it learns, gives honest feedback in every direction and celebrates the wins together
• Monthly team socials

What success looks like

• Your accounts hit or beat their performance KPIs
• Your media plans and testing roadmaps are high quality, with a strong implementation rate
• Reporting goes out accurately and on time
• Clients trust you, value your input and see you as a key part of their team
• The junior team members you work with produce strong work and grow in their roles