Manager, Paid Social

USA (Remote)

$28/hr – $38/hrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid social campaigns across multiple platforms for healthcare-focused brands, owning end-to-end execution and optimization.

  • Own end-to-end paid social campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, and more.
  • Must-have: 1–3+ years in social media with hands-on campaign setup and reporting.
  • Standout: healthcare/pharma channel knowledge and cross-brand collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Hands on management of paid campaigns across Meta, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Reddit, responsible for building campaigns, creating QA documents, naming conventions and setup.
  • Manage multi-million-dollar paid social budgets, including pacing oversight, optimization recommendations, and budget reconciliation.
  • Serve as the day-to-day paid social contact leading smaller clients, sharing clear performance updates and next-step recommendations and escalating complex needs to senior team members as needed.
  • Maintain strong executional standards across builds, QA, naming conventions, and trafficking to ensure accuracy and compliance.
  • Demonstrate a working understanding of healthcare and pharmaceutical paid social requirements, including platform rules, regulations, and guardrails
  • Analyze campaign performance data to uncover meaningful insights; Contribute to regular performance reporting by translating performance data into actionable takeaways and communicate them in a concise, client-friendly way.
  • Support measurement and learning agendas by setting up tests and summarizing what worked, what didn’t, and what to do next.
  • Identify opportunities for campaign optimization and recommend strategic shifts when needed
  • Own optimization approach (pacing, budget shifts, bid/goal adjustments, audience refinement) identifying opportunities for campaign optimization and improve efficiency and results against KPIs.
  • Support planning by providing platform inputs (audience ideas, formats, targeting, best practices, estimated budgets/flighting) to inform channel approach.
  • Collaborate with other media disciplines (e.g., programmatic, search) to inform integrated channel strategies
  • Develop internal strategic and creative assignment briefs to support editorial and campaign planning
  • Support organic growth efforts by flagging opportunities within existing campaigns (new audiences, additional placements, incremental budget needs).
  • Maintain a point of view on major social media platforms and emerging opportunities
  • Partner closely with supervisors, directors, creative teams, project managers, and account teams to ensure social strategies are executed effectively
  • Adapt quickly across multiple brands and therapeutic areas as needs evolve

Requirements

  • 1–3+ years of social media experience, including end-to-end execution of paid campaigns
  • Comfortable working directly within platform backends (e.g., Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok), including campaign setup, trafficking, optimization, and reporting
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on platform execution
  • Experience supporting multiple brands or accounts across different audiences or categories preferred
  • Strong presentation and communication skills

Preferred

  • Experience supporting multiple brands or accounts across different audiences or categories preferred

Benefits

  • All positions are remote friendly. At Spectrum, you choose where you work. We are a hybrid work environment with options to work in one of our three offices (D.C., New York, and Chicago), remotely from anywhere in the United States, or a combination.
  • No matter where you work, you’ll benefit from the monthly cell phone reimbursement.
  • Flexible time off. Take the time you need in addition to company holidays, voting time, jury duty and bereavement. We also offer a Sabbatical Program after 7 years of service.
  • 13 weeks paid Parental Leave, inclusive of adoption and foster care placement.
  • Continuous learning and development through Greatest Potential Self (proprietary talent program), tuition reimbursement programs, and in-house 1:1 coaching with access to talent and productivity-based assessments.
  • Bring your friends to work at Spectrum and earn a generous referral bonus.
  • Medical concierge service to assist with scheduling appointments, finding care, estimating and resolving claim issues, etc.
  • Thorough onboarding including accessible conversations with leadership.
  • 401k with company match and 1:1 Financial Coaching and Education.
  • Wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, as well as science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools through Headspace.

Spectrum Science

Brace your brand. And your career. Spectrum Science is on another frequency all together. We’re a fully integrated strategic platform hyper-focused on science. We’re redefining partnership with a “one P&L” approach that lets us assemble the right team precisely when our clients need it. Our ecosystem of services include: Communications, Clinical Trial Experience, Advertising, Consulting, Media, and Medical Communications – each designed to provide the best solutions for our clients’ unique challenges.And not only do we have global presence—we have global resonance as the US partner and chair of Global Health Marketing & Communications (GHMC), the largest independent network of health and science communications agencies worldwide.Follow our journey for industry insights and opportunities to join our award-winning team!

Founded in 1996
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
434 employees (83 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.1%
Direct
45.6%
Referral
6.8%
Social
15.7%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~434

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
62 (14% of company)
Median Career Experience
18 years
Median Tenure
7.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 3 years ago