Social Director

Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $180K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

The role centers on leading social strategy, campaigns, and team development for a North American client team. It emphasizes data-driven decision making, cross-functional collaboration, and growth through proactive business development. A benefits-focused perspective is highlighted, with no salary claims.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and oversee the creation of social strategies, social playbooks, activations and campaign ideas as part of an awesome North American client team.
  • Direct and synthesize research, social listening and other data to guide a brand's strategic decisions
  • Partner with creative, strategy, data and media teams to define and achieve a brand's social marketing goals
  • Supervise and guide the development of junior team members
  • Plan, execute and oversee social media campaigns, including user-generated content (UGC), influencer / creator programs and real-time activations
  • Identify and surface insights from the community behaviors, mentions and 1:1 interactions relevant to the brand
  • Commitment to driving agency growth through proactive business development and the strategic positioning of our services

Requirements

  • 8+ years of social marketing experience
  • Experience coaching and developing one or more direct reports
  • Advanced understanding of social platforms, audiences and behaviors, and the ability to make sound decisions based on that knowledge
  • Ability to apply knowledge of social media to effectively solve a wide variety of client challenges
  • Strong communication and presentation skills in a wide variety of formats and settings
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across organizations, departments, teams and individuals

Benefits

  • We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.
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VML is a global powerhouse born from the unification of Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R — two of the world's most powerful and accomplished creative agencies with complementary capabilities and geographic strengths. We have an industry-unique opportunity to provide our client partners with a fully integrated offering across brand experience, customer experience and commerce practices — powered by deep data and technology experience. For more information, visit www.vml.com.

Founded in 2024
New York, New York, US
33K employees (8,368 in marketing)
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