Paid Marketing Specialist

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here).

Now, we’re on the lookout for a Paid Marketing Specialist to help us bring that vision to even more travellers. 

About the role
(Hybrid)

You’ll be part of a high-performing paid marketing crew, helping us connect with millions of travellers each month and grow our audience across more than 50 countries worldwide.

This is a brilliant opportunity for someone early in their paid marketing journey who’s keen to get hands-on, learn fast and make a real impact. You’ll help execute campaigns across multiple Skyscanner products while we continue to evolve our highly data-driven paid marketing strategy - the kind powered by curiosity, experimentation and smart decision-making.

What you’ll be doing

• Powering our paid marketing engine: Supporting the execution of Skyscanner’s paid marketing strategy, helping grow year-on-year traffic while improving spend efficiency.
• Running global campaigns: Launching, managing and optimising paid search campaigns across Google and Bing — all aligned to performance targets
• Mastering bids: Managing bids using automated bid management solutions.
• Testing like a pro: Setting up, running and analysing experiments, including creative and audience A/B tests.
• Making performance visible: Owning performance reporting for campaigns and tests, turning results into clear, actionable insights.
• Finding gold in the data: Leveraging internal data to spot trends, uncover opportunities and highlight where we can do better.
• Helping us scale smarter: Supporting paid activity across multiple Skyscanner products as we grow volumes efficiently worldwide.

About you

• Paid-marketing curious: You bring 1–2 years of paid marketing experience and a genuine interest in digital marketing. Experience with Paid Search would be beneficial.
• Eager to learn: You’re enthusiastic, proactive and always looking to level up your knowledge and keep pace with industry developments.
• Data-minded: You’re highly analytical, comfortable assessing performance and determining campaign success through data.
• Excel-savvy: You’re confident using Microsoft Office, with a solid understanding of the basics in Excel.
• Clear communicator: You can explain ideas and results clearly — both in writing and in presenting to stakeholders.
• Comfortable flying solo or together: You enjoy working as part of a team, but you’re equally happy owning your work independently.
• Detail-driven and adaptable: You bring a can-do attitude, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and have great attention to detail.

What it’s like here

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨.

Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.

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