Account Director, Social Strategy

Detroit, MI (On-site)

$93K/yr – $123K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own social and digital strategy with a strong client POV, guiding content, trends, and AI-informed insights for B2C and B2B audiences.

  • Growth/Ownership: Lead strategy development and creative input across social and digital programs, briefing large cross-functional teams to align with strategic objectives.
  • Measurement & Optimization: Collaborate with analysts to translate reports into optimization actions and stay ahead of platform updates and trends.
  • Strategic Influence: Detect opportunities, present client-facing POV, and shape social vision and best practices using cultural context and social listening signals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop social and digital content strategies, based on the understanding of the client's brand message, voice, objectives and target audiences.
  • Provide creative and strategic input on social and digital projects.
  • Work closely with creative to execute strategies for B2C and B2B as needed.
  • Support and brief large and diverse Creative and Community Management teams, as they relate to the strategic objectives.
  • Work with Analysts to interpret the results obtained from the different reports of the analytical and monitoring tools for continuous optimization of the account.
  • Monitor trends in social networks to adjust the strategy, content and work based on the latest platforms updates and innovations.
  • Have an eye to detect business opportunities and develop the right solution.
  • Take the lead when needed in front of the clients, and provide a valuable strategic POV.
  • Provide thought leadership on social media vision and best practices for the marketing of today and tomorrow, powered by AI, fueled by cultural context, trends and conversations and think dynamically of the intersection of social listening and content creation.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 6-9 years of experience with a brand (client-side), or a digital advertising and/or digital PR agency, with preference for experience leading and managing social and digital programs (or commensurate experience).
  • Possess expert-level proficiency in social media platforms and inherent curiosity about emerging platforms. Should be willing to experiment with cutting-edge platforms and techniques and explain the “why this matters” to client at a strategic level.
  • Work well within highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams – displaying proven ability in running a team, controlling timelines and budgets, anticipating issues and working towards solutions to complex problems.
  • Be able to communicate with client contacts across multiple levels, both at a reporting and strategic counsel level.
  • Have exceptional creative and business writing skills.
  • Have deep working knowledge of the social and digital ecosystem, including working relationships with social platforms and partners.
  • Understand the paid media environment and how it applies to a holistic social media strategy.
  • Have the proven ability to meet deadlines, juggle multiple projects and work independently in a fast-paced office environment.
  • Have experience working with an analytics team to measure campaign ROI and generate insights that inform future recommendations and decisions.
  • The most important qualification is passion and enthusiasm for the job to be done — this is a role where you can make a real difference and impact on one of the world’s largest automotive companies.
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      Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

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