Account Lead, Paid Social

USA (Remote)

$96K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own the Meta Ads paid social strategy and client roadmap for a large account, serving as the primary liaison for optimization, testing, and team leadership across cross-channel initiatives.

  • Drive enterprise-level growth through test design, measurements, and performance optimization
  • Lead and develop a high-performing team while aligning with client objectives

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead channel-specific Paid Social strategy across Meta Ads, leveraging deep expertise in it to drive growth for client KPIs around user app acquisition.
  • Serving as the day-to-day contact for Meta Ads for a large and complex client account, aligning strategy recommendations and optimizations with client objectives.
  • Own the Meta Ads client’s social account roadmap, ensuring tests align with client priorities, performance goals, creative strategy, and cross-channel initiatives.
  • Stay up to date on paid social trends within the mobile space and maintain a consistent strategic narrative to the client and how the trends impact client business goals.
  • Establish, enforce, and evolve paid social processes and best practices, ensuring consistent use of tools such as Asana, platform QA frameworks, and internal standards across teams.
  • Ensure projects and tests are properly prioritized based on resourcing through clear dialogue across team members and the client.
  • Serve as the senior point person for the internal team and client around test recommendations, proper set-up and measurement to ensure results are measurable and applicable in order to grow performance.
  • Build, develop, and lead high-performing teams by overseeing onboarding, driving effective delegation, coaching people managers, and fostering inclusive, collaborative, and high-impact team environments.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years paid social advertising and minimum 2 years experience in management.
  • A proven track record of successfully scaling paid social programs for enterprise level or highly complex clients.
  • Deeply proficient Meta ads manager and be skilled at effectively communicating paid social goals, targets, and direct-response tactics to clients and can get into the weeds when necessary.
  • Excellent organizational, strategic, and communication skills: you’ll need to be able to oversee several projects and effectively communicate and teach optimization tasks to multiple team members at once, all while looking for opportunities to streamline performance growth.
  • Demonstrated ability to foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
  • Proven capability to develop and execute strategic paid social plans that align with client objectives and drive measurable business growth.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability in navigating evolving platforms, market conditions, and client needs.

Preferred

  • Prior work experience driving strategy and execution for mobile user app acquisition campaigns across Meta Ads.
  • Strong knowledge of MMP (mobile measurement platform) attribution and iOS SKAN.

Benefits

  • Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 401K plan, plus matching
  • PTO
  • Paid Company Holidays
  • Parental Leave
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50.1%
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1.8%
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