Paid Media Graduate

Job Title: Paid Media Graduate Company: ZURU Job Category: Digital Marketing Roles & Responsibilities: What You'll Do * Own the clipping budget across ZURU brands – track committed and actual spend campaign by campaign, keep the pipeline funded, and flag over\- or under\-spend before it becomes a problem. * Run campaigns end to end with our agency partners – brief in new campaigns, gather the assets and answers they need, chase the detail, and keep launch dates moving. * Manage the clipping dashboard as the single source of truth – keeping campaign data, budgets, rate cards and the launch pipeline accurate and current so the business can trust what it reads. * Reconcile what we pay against what we agreed – check payouts against the contracted rate card and payout caps, spot duplicates, blanks and anything billed outside the terms, and raise discrepancies with the agency. * Optimise cost per thousand views – compare performance across brands, markets, platforms and creators, and move budget towards what is working. * Circulate insights to the business – a regular performance digest, post\-campaign wrap\-ups, and clear answers to ‘what clipped well and why’ for the brand, digital and e\-commerce teams. * Support brand teams through the briefing process – help them choose the right budget tier, market and assets, and make submitting a clipping brief genuinely easy. * Grow clipping as a function – pilot new brands, markets and platforms, help evaluate and onboard new agency partners, and build the rate cards, benchmarks and ways of working that let clipping scale. About ZURU ZURU is on a mission to disrupt across industries, challenge the status quo and catalyst change through radical innovation and automation advances. This is in play in different pillars of the company: ZURU Toys are re\-imagining what it means to play; ZURU Tech is shaping a better future by leading the next building revolution; ZURU Edge is pioneering new generation FMCG brands to better serve modern consumers. ZURU's approach to ways of working We believe the best ideas come from working closely together. Our teams adopt an office\-first mindset enabling fast collaboration, quicker decision\-making, and stronger team connections. While flexibility may be available depending on the role, location and business needs, most positions are based in the office, where we can innovate, learn from one another, and move quickly as a team. Work Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Availability: Full time

What You'll Bring * An entry\-level opportunity – recent graduates with no prior experience, and those with up to around one year of experience, are all encouraged to apply. * Obsessive attention to detail – you double\-check your work and take real pride in getting the small things exactly right. Real money moves through this role, so this is one of its most important qualities. * Comfortable with numbers – confident in a spreadsheet, and happy working with budgets, spend against plan, and simple efficiency metrics like cost per thousand views. * Able to juggle and multi\-task across several brands and live campaigns at once without dropping the ball. * Quick to learn – you pick things up fast and adapt to new processes, tools and ways of working as they change. * Proactive by nature – you actively look for ways to improve your own work and the processes around it, rather than waiting to be told. * A strong sense of ownership and responsibility – you own your work and its outcomes end to end. * Confident dealing with external partners – clear, polite and persistent with agencies, and comfortable asking the awkward question when something doesn’t add up. * Genuinely fluent in short\-form social – you live on TikTok, Reels and Shorts and have a feel for what makes a clip travel. * Platform experience is not required, but knowledge of Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, creator or affiliate marketing, or clipping communities is a strong plus. * Bachelor’s degree preferred, with strong written, verbal and reporting skills – you can turn a dashboard into two clear sentences anyone in the business can act on. * A can\-do attitude and an adaptable, low\-friction style of working – comfortable collaborating with people of many backgrounds, skill sets and personalities. Key Skills: Meta Ads Salary: Not disclosed