Lead Director, Paid Social & Search

Woonsocket, RI (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $232K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Lead and own CVS Pharmacy’s enterprise paid social and social search initiatives, shaping paid media strategy, measurement, and team growth to drive customer acquisition, engagement, and revenue across multiple platforms.

  • Define channel roles, audience strategies, and measurement frameworks to optimize full-funnel business performance.
  • Lead testing, attribution, and analytics initiatives to drive data-driven decision making.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead CVS Pharmacy's enterprise paid social and social search strategy across major and emerging platforms to support customer acquisition, engagement, retention, and revenue growth.
  • Define channel roles, audience strategies, investment allocation, and measurement frameworks to optimize full-funnel business performance.
  • Leverage first-party data, audience insights, CRM capabilities, and platform targeting solutions to improve personalization and marketing effectiveness.
  • Partner with Content and Community Management teams to amplify high-performing content, community insights, influencer programs, and social-first storytelling across paid channels.
  • Establish performance measurement frameworks and optimization strategies focused on ROAS, CPA, CAC, conversion, retention, and customer lifetime value.
  • Lead testing, attribution, incrementality measurement, and analytics initiatives to drive data-driven decision making and continuous improvement.
  • Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing social and search marketing team while establishing clear goals and development opportunities.
  • Manage agency partners and collaborate across Brand, Retail Marketing, Loyalty, CRM, Analytics, Media, Influencer, Legal, and Digital teams.
  • Cultivate strategic relationships with major platform partners and identify opportunities to leverage emerging capabilities, including AI-driven marketing solutions and social commerce innovations.
  • Drive innovation and best practices that improve marketing performance, customer engagement, and competitive advantage.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in paid social, search marketing, digital media, performance marketing, or related disciplines.
  • Deep expertise across major social advertising platforms, social search ecosystems, audience targeting, and marketing measurement.
  • Proven success driving customer growth and measurable business outcomes through performance marketing strategies.
  • Strong experience with analytics, testing methodologies, attribution, audience segmentation, and optimization frameworks.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience building and developing high-performing teams and managing agency partnerships.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.

Preferred

  • Retail, healthcare, loyalty marketing, first-party data, influencer marketing, and marketing technology experience preferred.

Benefits

  • Great benefits for great people
  • This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
  • Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments .
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CVS Health

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CVS Health is the leading health solutions company, delivering care like no one else can. We reach more people and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and over 300,000 dedicated colleagues. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by simplifying health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Follow @CVSHealth on social media.

Founded in 1963
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA
132K employees (1,798 in marketing)
45% recommend to a friend
55% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$6.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.9%
Direct
40.9%
Referral
30.4%
Social
6.2%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~132.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,117 (1% of company)
Median Career Experience
18 years
Median Tenure
5.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
22

Funding

Total Funding
$4B
Last Raise
$4B
Post IPO Debt, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $4B
  • Jul 2025
    Grant • $1.5M
  • Nov 2019
    Post IPO Equity

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