Junior Ads Specialist

The Role of a Junior Ads Specialist at Canonical

Canonical has been a pioneer in open source since 2004, empowering developers to build innovations in public cloud, machine learning, robotics, and blockchain. As a Junior Ads Specialist, you'll be at the forefront of technology adoption, both for our customers and our internal martech stack. This role offers an emphasis on ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and curiosity, ideal for someone passionate about technology marketing and leveraging technology in marketing.

The Marketing team at Canonical is instrumental in driving commercial outcomes across our product portfolio and expanding our market reach through digital marketing, lifecycle management, events, partnerships, and community development. If you're motivated by growth, customer delight, and filling the sales funnel, this is an exciting opportunity.

This position reports to the Growth Engineering Manager within the Marketing team.

What Your Day Will Look Like

• Support marketing team members with setting up and monitoring paid ads campaigns
• Monitor paid ads performance and budgets across the Marketing team
• Build on automation and AI to improve paid ads performance
• Develop Canonical's adtech stack to industry leading standard

What We Are Looking For In You

• Proficiency with all major ad platforms (Google, LinkedIn, Meta, etc.)
• Familiarity with campaign tracking and analytics tools
• Experience driving successful lead generation campaigns
• Experience with A/B testing and data-driven decision making
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams
• Proven ability to prioritise and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality
• A growth mindset - someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risks
• Engagement with the latest trends in marketing technology
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Working Environment and Benefits

Canonical has been a fully remote working environment since 2004, offering a competitive base pay alongside a comprehensive benefits package designed to reflect our values. Your compensation will vary based on location, experience, and skills, with additional benefits like annual bonuses potentially available. We are committed to global workforce equity.

Our benefits include:

• Fully remote working environment
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm leading the global open-source movement, publishing Ubuntu – a crucial platform for AI, IoT, and cloud technologies. We are a global company that recruits to a very high standard, expecting excellence and challenging our team members to think differently and work smarter. Working at Canonical offers a unique insight into 21st-century digital business.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer, fostering a workplace free from discrimination, where diversity of experience, perspectives, and background are valued.

Key skills/competency

• Paid Advertising
• Campaign Management
• Google Ads
• LinkedIn Ads
• Meta Ads
• Lead Generation
• A/B Testing
• Data Analysis
• MarTech
• Automation