Manager, Paid Social

New York City, NY (On-site)

$90K/yr – $100K/yrManager3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own paid social campaigns across major platforms and lead a small team, aligning client goals to multi-channel strategy while delivering data-driven optimizations and creative collaboration.

  • Paid Social Ownership: Direct campaign development, testing, and optimization with cross-functional partners to hit client benchmarks.
  • Team & Client Alignment: Shepherd career growth for associates and translate high level goals into actionable media plans.
  • Measurement & Insights: Leverage third party data and native tools to tell a data-driven story and inform future tests.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Responsibilities will be across social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, SnapChat, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok and Reddit
  • Responsible for overseeing Paid Social Associates and Sr. Associates on the team and owning their career development
  • Developing and overseeing optimizing, and maintaining paid social campaigns for clients, including coordination of assets between creative agencies and budget management
  • Works with a cross-discipline team to integrate paid social media strategy into a multi-channel, holistic recommendation
  • Uses strong quantitative skills, including analytical and story-telling ability, to analyze data and provide insights and optimization recommendations. Familiarity with third-party data and measurement solutions. Developing, executing, and testing across campaign variables that create client-specific insight and feed future successions of testing
  • Helps creatives express their ideas with feasible recommendations to tie it closer to the brief. Passionate about innovation and the creative process, desires to find creative ways to say "yes" to ideas and to contribute your own
  • Understanding client goals and how to maximize those measures of success through tactical strategies and technologies; Maintaining and optimizing client campaigns to improve overall performance against pre-determined benchmarks on an ongoing basis
  • Brainstorming and researching new first to market ideas including new betas and opportunities with our partners
  • Strong familiarity with 3rd-party tracking vendors and integrating with social platforms

Requirements

  • Substantial experience in account management, planning, and/or performance media experience
  • Strong working understanding of the Paid Social platforms, including major players and supporting technology Facebook Ad Manager, X (formerly Twitter) Ads, etc.
  • Demonstrable experience working with multiple partners, on enterprise level paid social media accounts with diverse budget levels and objectives
  • Proven ability to understand high-level client goals and how they translate into paid media strategy when applied via online technologies
  • Ability to effectively communicate processes and tactics to clients, peers, and junior members of the team
  • Understanding of paid social measurement and experience utilizing multiple native measurement tools
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

  • 3+ years of experience
  • Agency experience strongly preferred
  • Detail and process oriented, with the ability to multitask and prioritize tasks based on client objective
  • Time management skills

Benefits

  • We offer a Total Rewards package that includes medical and dental coverage, 401(k) plans, flex spending, life insurance, disability, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and paid family benefits to support you and your family
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IPG Mediabrands is the media and marketing solutions division of Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). IPG Mediabrands manages over $47 billion in marketing investment globally on behalf of its clients across its full-service agency networks UM, Initiative and Mediahub and through its award-winning specialized business units Healix, KINESSO, MAGNA, Mediabrands Content Studio, Orion Holdings, Rapport, and the IPG Media Lab. IPG Mediabrands clients include many of the world’s most recognizable and iconic brands from a broad portfolio of industry sectors including automotive, personal finance, consumer product goods (CPG), pharma, health and wellness, entertainment, financial services, energy, toys and gaming, direct to consumer and e-commerce, retail, hospitality, food and beverage, fashion and beauty. The company employs more than 18,000 diverse marketing communication professionals in more than 130 countries. Learn more at www.ipgmediabrands.com.

Founded in 2007
New York, New York, USA
8.6K employees (2,270 in marketing)
70% recommend to a friend
78% CEO approval

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111.2K
Traffic Source Mix
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42%
Direct
43.5%
Referral
9.7%
Social
3.6%
Paid
0.9%

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Current headcount: ~8.7K

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Marketing Team Size
1,974 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
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