Paid Media Coordinator - Performance Marketing (Full-Time, In-Office)
Location: Umhlanga
Department: Media Buying
Reports to: Senior Media Buyer / Head of Media
About Us
At Hyrax, we're a fast-paced, creative, performance marketing agency focused on driving results through paid media. With offices in London and South Africa, we build campaigns that convert - combining intuition, data, and raw grit.
We're a small, elite team of winners, and we're looking for someone hungry to join us at the starting line and grow into a full-fledged Media Buyer.
We are looking for a Media Intern who will be trained from the ground up to become a Performance Media Buyer. This is not your average internship - you'll be deep in real campaigns from day one, learning how to test, scale, and optimize paid traffic across platforms like Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and Native.
You'll work alongside experienced media buyers, creative strategists, and analysts - learning how to launch our clients campaigns, read data like a hawk, and scale winning ads.
Key Responsibilities
In the first 3-6 months, you will:
- Shadow and assist senior media buyers with campaign setup, monitoring, and optimization.
- Learn campaign testing frameworks and how to analyze performance KPIs (CTR, CVR, EPC, ROAS).
- Help create ad copy, video scripts, and landing page briefs.- Assist in creative tracking and version management.
- Document and organize test results, learnings, and reporting insights.- Participate in internal brainstorms and creative strategy sessions.
- Help QA campaign launches for tracking, congruence, and spelling (details, details, details).As you progress, you'll be trained to:
- Launch your own campaigns under supervision.
- Develop hypotheses and testing plans.- Work independently on accounts with responsibility for budget and performance.
What We're Looking For
Mindset over experience. We don't expect you to know media buying - we'll teach you.
But you must be:
- Detail-obsessed: Typos and mismatched UTMs kill campaigns. You notice everything.
- Self-starter: If something is broken, you fix it. If a process doesn't exist, you build it.- Analytical thinker: You enjoy solving puzzles, love numbers, and can think in experiments.
- Bold and curious: You're not afraid to test big ideas, even if they flop.
- Focused and hungry: You want a career, not just a job. You're ready to earn your seat.
Our values you'll be expected to embody
- Your job isn't done until the job is done
- Be creative
- Trust your instincts and act with integrity
- Be honest and open with your feedback
- Be resourceful
- Detail, details, details
- Be bold with your campaigns.
We'll hold you to these - because they're how we win.
Requirements
- No prior media buying experience required.
- Bachelor's degree preferred, but not required.
- Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills a bonus.
- Familiarity with digital marketing, paid social, or ecommerce is a plus.
What You'll Get
- 3-6 month internship with full-time potential.
- Structured training path to become a Junior Media Buyer.
- Daily in-office mentorship from high-performing peers.
- Fast-track career growth for top performers.
- An energetic, no-BS culture where you'll learn real performance media.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From R10 000,00 per month
