Paid Social Manager

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $105K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize paid social as the primary growth engine across channels, tying spend to clear revenue targets and enabling rapid testing and iteration.

  • Own the strategy, platform testing, and cross-team messaging to drive incremental growth and safeguard against ad fatigue.
  • Lead performance analysis and dashboards to translate data into leadership-ready recommendations and guide budget allocation.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own the paid social strategy across all channels, aligning with broader business objectives and growth targets
  • Lead day-to-day management, optimization, and A/B testing of paid social campaigns across channels, ensuring efficient spend
  • Monitor campaign performance against monthly/yearly goals, ensuring paid social efforts contribute to business objectives
  • Identify and evaluate new paid social platforms and beta opportunities to drive incremental growth and competitive advantage
  • Build high-impact campaigns, ad sets, and ads with sophisticated targeting, placements, and objectives
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration to define campaign messaging, positioning, and objectives
  • Establish a proactive creative refresh and testing schedule to prevent ad fatigue and maintain audience engagement
  • Partner with creative and content teams to brief, develop, and deliver fresh creative assets
  • Leverage backend performance data in Tableau and other analytics tools to uncover trends, generate strategic insights, and drive data-informed decision-making
  • Assist with paid search and display initiatives, helping manage campaigns and drive optimizations

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on paid media management experience
  • Deep expertise in Meta Ads (Facebook/Instagram) with advanced knowledge of campaign structure, optimization, and platform capabilities
  • Experience managing TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube Ads, and Reddit
  • Familiarity with Paid Search and Display advertising and ability to support optimization efforts across these channels
  • Strong track record managing campaign budgets and optimizing results
  • Adept at running A/B and multivariate tests to optimize creative, copy, and targeting
  • Proficient in Google Analytics/GA4 and deriving actionable insights
  • Strong Excel skills for reporting and analysis
  • Comfortable creating weekly/monthly reports and delivering results clearly
  • Must be detail oriented and have strong organizational skills

Preferred

  • Experience with Tableau

Benefits

  • Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings and workshops
  • Four weeks paid vacation your first year, ten paid holidays, and two floating holidays
  • Exciting business travel opportunities
  • 25% company match on your 401(k) contributions
  • Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with options for life and disability insurance, accident and hospital insurance, legal and pet insurance
  • Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • Access to fertility care and family-building support
  • Wellness benefits including a yearly fitness reimbursement
  • Frequent social and learning events, including access to our employee-run resource groups
  • Robust Employee Assistance Program
  • Tenure-based sabbatical eligibility
  • EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, Au Pair program and more)
  • Discounts at local venues and businesses
  • Amazing offices designed to match the caliber of the people who work there, plus the flexibility of working from home three days a week
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At EF Go Ahead Tours we believe you’re never too old to be a student of the world. For 30 years we have guided individuals across the globe through carefully crafted group travel. Our travelers range from young professionals to retirees, solo travelers to entire families, travel enthusiasts to those stepping off their first flight. We believe that the best way to learn about the world is to experience it. Every day we come to work hoping to help as many people as possible, do just that. As a proud part of EF Education First, we draw on over 50 years of expertise to continue to add meaningful travel experiences to our portfolio of more than 180 tours across 7 continents.Want to know what it's like to travel with us? Give us a call at 1.877.265.1757 or visit https://www.goaheadtours.com/Want to know what it's like to work with us? Check out our opportunities at https://www.goaheadtours.com/about/go-ahead-careersCheck out our Blogs:https://www.eftech.com/https://www.goaheadtours.com/travel-blog

Founded in 1990
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
483 employees (46 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$401.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
58.9%
Direct
31.2%
Referral
5%
Social
2.9%
Paid
1.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~483

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
32 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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