Job description
THE OPPORTUNITY
Following another successful year of growth, we are excited to open applications for our Medialab ‘Launch’ Programme!
‘Launch’ is the entry level point into The Medialab Career Accelerator Programme, our career development framework that maps a successful career in media through three levels of progression, from building your foundations in Launch, to developing as a manager in Lift, and ultimately shaping agency strategy in Lead.
We don’t mind if you are a school leaver or graduate straight out of college or university, if this is your first role, or you come to us with some experience. If you can demonstrate a passion for data, proactivity and drive, we will, in turn, provide you with the platform to kick start your career in Media at a leading and award-winning media agency!
As an Account Executive, you will be at the heart of our high-performing team and the key to our clients' success. This is a fundamentally data-driven, hands-on role where your day-to-day will involve detailed analysis, numerical comfort, and a rigorous approach to campaign performance. You will learn the craft of media from the ground up, working on real campaigns from your very first week, building strong relationships, ensuring accuracy, and applying data to drive brilliant results for our clients.
Depending on where your interests lie, you will join one of three key departments and specialise in one of five core areas:
CHOOSE YOUR ROUTE
- Department: Digital
Perfect for those who love data, digital and optimising real-time campaign performance.
You will choose a specialism, becoming an expert in one of our primary Digital channels, whilst also gaining a basic understanding of the other channels through shared learning experiences.
Specialism: Paid Search
Master building and optimising paid campaigns on Google and Bing at the exact point customers are searching for answers. You will learn to build campaigns, manage budgets, analyse performance data, run A/B tests and connect client brands with audiences actively looking for them.
Specialism: Paid Social
Plan and execute campaigns across social media platforms such as Meta (Instagram/Facebook), TikTok Reddit, LinkedIn, Pinterest & more. You'll learn how to capture audience attention and use data to refine campaign performance.
Specialism: Programmatic Display
The art and science of automated display, video and connected TV ad buying across the open web. You will learn to use Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs) like DV360, The Trade Desk, and Yahoo to target precise audiences, manage real-time bidding (RTB) auctions, and optimise multi-format campaigns to drive brand awareness and performance at scale.
Department: Client Planning
Perfect for data-driven strategic thinkers who love decoding audience behaviour, analysing consumption habits, and connecting the dots across the broader media landscape to build impactful campaigns.
Specialism: Media Planning
Learn how to blend different media channels, from TV and print to digital and social media. You'll use data to understand audiences, contribute to strategic briefs and help build cohesive, high-impact campaigns for our clients.
Department: AV
Specialism: TV, AV & VOD
Master the art of media buying and activation planning across TV, video-on-demand (VOD), and streaming services. You'll learn how to negotiate with major media owners like Amazon, Netflix, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky, manage campaign plans, delivery and analyse viewing data to ensure ads reach the right audiences with maximum impact.
If you’re unsure which area is the best fit, don't worry! We can help guide you during our initial chat.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
As part of the Launch cohort, you will start building your foundation in media immediately. You will:
Deliver Data-Driven Success: Use our tools to populate campaign data accurately, apply performance data to draw insights, and support your team in making proactive campaign improvements & optimisations.
Campaign Activation: Campaign setup, from ensuring accurate tracking to managing budgets and monthly invoicing, ensuring all parameters are met.
Build Strong Client Relationships: Contribute to day-to-day client communication, help prepare for meetings, and respond promptly to queries, always seeking to understand the 'why' behind client objectives.
Grow Your Craft Daily: Work directly within our collaborative teams on live campaigns, applying learnings and frameworks to day-to-day tasks while bringing curiosity and energy to everything you do.
Gain Professional Qualifications: Obtain best-in-class industry qualifications with the IPA, Thinkbox TV Masters , Google Fundamentals as well as bespoke opportunities to learn from the UK’s leading media companies such as ITV and Sky.
Following another successful year of growth, we are excited to open applications for our Medialab ‘Launch’ Programme!
‘Launch’ is the entry level point into The Medialab Career Accelerator Programme, our career development framework that maps a successful career in media through three levels of progression, from building your foundations in Launch, to developing as a manager in Lift, and ultimately shaping agency strategy in Lead.
We don’t mind if you are a school leaver or graduate straight out of college or university, if this is your first role, or you come to us with some experience. If you can demonstrate a passion for data, proactivity and drive, we will, in turn, provide you with the platform to kick start your career in Media at a leading and award-winning media agency!
As an Account Executive, you will be at the heart of our high-performing team and the key to our clients' success. This is a fundamentally data-driven, hands-on role where your day-to-day will involve detailed analysis, numerical comfort, and a rigorous approach to campaign performance. You will learn the craft of media from the ground up, working on real campaigns from your very first week, building strong relationships, ensuring accuracy, and applying data to drive brilliant results for our clients.
Depending on where your interests lie, you will join one of three key departments and specialise in one of five core areas:
CHOOSE YOUR ROUTE
- Department: Digital
Perfect for those who love data, digital and optimising real-time campaign performance.
You will choose a specialism, becoming an expert in one of our primary Digital channels, whilst also gaining a basic understanding of the other channels through shared learning experiences.
Specialism: Paid Search
Master building and optimising paid campaigns on Google and Bing at the exact point customers are searching for answers. You will learn to build campaigns, manage budgets, analyse performance data, run A/B tests and connect client brands with audiences actively looking for them.
Specialism: Paid Social
Plan and execute campaigns across social media platforms such as Meta (Instagram/Facebook), TikTok Reddit, LinkedIn, Pinterest & more. You'll learn how to capture audience attention and use data to refine campaign performance.
Specialism: Programmatic Display
The art and science of automated display, video and connected TV ad buying across the open web. You will learn to use Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs) like DV360, The Trade Desk, and Yahoo to target precise audiences, manage real-time bidding (RTB) auctions, and optimise multi-format campaigns to drive brand awareness and performance at scale.
Department: Client Planning
Perfect for data-driven strategic thinkers who love decoding audience behaviour, analysing consumption habits, and connecting the dots across the broader media landscape to build impactful campaigns.
Specialism: Media Planning
Learn how to blend different media channels, from TV and print to digital and social media. You'll use data to understand audiences, contribute to strategic briefs and help build cohesive, high-impact campaigns for our clients.
Department: AV
Specialism: TV, AV & VOD
Master the art of media buying and activation planning across TV, video-on-demand (VOD), and streaming services. You'll learn how to negotiate with major media owners like Amazon, Netflix, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky, manage campaign plans, delivery and analyse viewing data to ensure ads reach the right audiences with maximum impact.
If you’re unsure which area is the best fit, don't worry! We can help guide you during our initial chat.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
As part of the Launch cohort, you will start building your foundation in media immediately. You will:
Deliver Data-Driven Success: Use our tools to populate campaign data accurately, apply performance data to draw insights, and support your team in making proactive campaign improvements & optimisations.
Campaign Activation: Campaign setup, from ensuring accurate tracking to managing budgets and monthly invoicing, ensuring all parameters are met.
Build Strong Client Relationships: Contribute to day-to-day client communication, help prepare for meetings, and respond promptly to queries, always seeking to understand the 'why' behind client objectives.
Grow Your Craft Daily: Work directly within our collaborative teams on live campaigns, applying learnings and frameworks to day-to-day tasks while bringing curiosity and energy to everything you do.
Gain Professional Qualifications: Obtain best-in-class industry qualifications with the IPA, Thinkbox TV Masters , Google Fundamentals as well as bespoke opportunities to learn from the UK’s leading media companies such as ITV and Sky.
The Package
We offer a competitive entry-level salary aligned with industry standards, reviewed regularly. Alongside your base pay, our total package includes:
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Working at Medialab comes with lots of perks including all the usual things you would expect, such as a competitive salary package, pension, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, weekly social events and big summer / end of year parties.
On top of that, we offer extra benefits, which make life at Medialab even more rewarding:
- Time to Unwind – We offer generous holiday entitlement that increases with long service, plus Christmas closure and a birthday day off. Alongside this, we offer flexible benefits including a holiday buy scheme, flexi-hours, a work abroad scheme, cultural bank holiday swaps, and Friday Summer hours.
- Hybrid Working – Balance between home and office (3 Days in Office). We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements from the commencement of employment.
- Career Growth – A meritocratic approach to progression with bi-annual reviews, CPD Platinum accredited training, mentoring and leadership support.
- Health & Wellbeing – Private medical insurance, health cash plan, gym discounts, wellbeing apps Mental Health First Aiders and free professional counselling.
- Supporting Families – Enhanced parental leave pay, flexible working and life assurance.
- Giving Back – Paid charity days and sustainability initiatives.
- Perks & Rewards – Retail discounts, long-service trips and an unforgettable team culture.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Working at Medialab comes with lots of perks including all the usual things you would expect, such as a competitive salary package, pension, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, weekly social events and big summer / end of year parties.
On top of that, we offer extra benefits, which make life at Medialab even more rewarding:
- Time to Unwind – We offer generous holiday entitlement that increases with long service, plus Christmas closure and a birthday day off. Alongside this, we offer flexible benefits including a holiday buy scheme, flexi-hours, a work abroad scheme, cultural bank holiday swaps, and Friday Summer hours.
- Hybrid Working – Balance between home and office (3 Days in Office). We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements from the commencement of employment.
- Career Growth – A meritocratic approach to progression with bi-annual reviews, CPD Platinum accredited training, mentoring and leadership support.
- Health & Wellbeing – Private medical insurance, health cash plan, gym discounts, wellbeing apps Mental Health First Aiders and free professional counselling.
- Supporting Families – Enhanced parental leave pay, flexible working and life assurance.
- Giving Back – Paid charity days and sustainability initiatives.
- Perks & Rewards – Retail discounts, long-service trips and an unforgettable team culture.
The Agency
JOIN OUR JOURNEY
Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry. We’re a media agency that’s made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent.
Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is recognised and rewarded. There are no limits to what you can achieve here, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign Best Place to Work for six consecutive years and one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025. As well as this, we’re Campaign’s Independent Agency of the Year 2024 and Media Week’s Independent Agency of the Year 2025.
We are IPA Effectiveness accredited, an IPA People-First agency, and All in Champions, with industry-leading work recognised by double-gold at the 2024 IPA Effectiveness Awards for our work with Laithwaites and a 2025 Effie for our work with Alzheimer’s Society.
Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people. We work with a wide variety of clients who are the countries most loved brands including Hovis, IG, Sharps Bedrooms, SunLife, Standard Life, Ancestry, Laithwaites Wine, Save the Children, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI and Clearscore.
OUR VALUES
- Commit to Doing the Right Thing (Act with integrity and accountability)
- Help People Flourish (Invest in people)
-Dig Deeper to Understand Better (Data driven curiosity)
Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry. We’re a media agency that’s made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent.
Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is recognised and rewarded. There are no limits to what you can achieve here, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign Best Place to Work for six consecutive years and one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025. As well as this, we’re Campaign’s Independent Agency of the Year 2024 and Media Week’s Independent Agency of the Year 2025.
We are IPA Effectiveness accredited, an IPA People-First agency, and All in Champions, with industry-leading work recognised by double-gold at the 2024 IPA Effectiveness Awards for our work with Laithwaites and a 2025 Effie for our work with Alzheimer’s Society.
Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people. We work with a wide variety of clients who are the countries most loved brands including Hovis, IG, Sharps Bedrooms, SunLife, Standard Life, Ancestry, Laithwaites Wine, Save the Children, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI and Clearscore.
OUR VALUES
- Commit to Doing the Right Thing (Act with integrity and accountability)
- Help People Flourish (Invest in people)
-Dig Deeper to Understand Better (Data driven curiosity)