Responsibilities

• Oversee the full adoption, strategy and implementation of dentsu's paid social planning process.
• Actively participate in new business pitch work, inclusive of representing Paid Social in actual in-room client presentations.
• Help drive more effective media operations integration and best practices with Media teams to ensure 100% error-free activation.
• Oversee media delivery and ensure a best-in-class work product supporting dentsu's paid social value proposition
• Contribute and create thought leadership with a perspective on the paid social industry
• Standardize briefing, planning & optimization processes
• Apply a media operations best practices playbook across all media accounts, ensuring compliance and error-free media activation
• Support the paid social department in recruiting, hiring, and career-pathing of next-generation media leaders
• Act as a Paid Social SME in new pitches and for current clients
• Contribute to product and capability development, as well as overall value proposition and acquisition strategy

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in digital media agencies, with a focus on paid media and paid social
• Experience managing teams of paid social professionals and contributing strategically to the social senior leadership team
• Media savvy, with an understanding of influencer and organic
• Deep expertise of Paid Social required - both in platform and around broader industry trends.
• Past success sharing social innovation, a perspective on the industry and a forward-thinking vision of what could be next
• Has managed executive level client relationships, while being deeply embedded in the work, building paid social capabilities and working within the platforms we work in every day
• Driven new business initiatives, working closely with teams to own the process from start to finish.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.