Analyst, Paid Social Media

New York City, NY (On-site)

$50K/yr – $74K/yrIntern/New Grad6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own the day-to-day execution and optimization of paid social campaigns while helping shape strategy and turning data into actionable insights across targeting, creative, bidding, and budgets.

  • Collaborate with strategy, analytics, and account teams to drive integrated media efforts
  • Leverage platform tools and AI-assisted capabilities to improve efficiency and performance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support day-to-day execution and optimization of paid social campaigns across leading platforms, ensuring alignment with client objectives and best practices
  • Assist in developing and activating paid social strategies, including campaign setup, QA, pacing, and performance monitoring
  • Analyze campaign performance data to identify trends, insights, and optimization opportunities across targeting, creative, bidding, and budgets
  • Partner with the Paid Social Manager to help deliver strategic recommendations and ongoing channel expertise
  • Contribute to campaign reporting by tracking key performance metrics and translating data into clear, actionable insights
  • Support customer, media, brand, and market research efforts that uncover new opportunities and inform future strategies
  • Facilitate knowledge-sharing of results, learnings, and insights with internal teams to drive continuous improvement
  • Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders across strategy, analytics, and account teams to support integrated media efforts
  • Leverage emerging platform tools and AI-assisted capabilities (e.g., automated bidding, creative testing, and performance insights) where appropriate to enhance efficiency and optimization

Requirements

  • 6+ months of hands-on experience supporting paid social campaign development, management, or optimization
  • Familiarity with major paid social platforms such as Meta (Facebook/Instagram), TikTok, and similar ecosystems
  • Digital media operations or agency experience preferred
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to interpret performance data and identify meaningful insights
  • Experience working within native platform tools or third-party technologies (e.g., APIs, reporting or activation tools)
  • Proactive, resourceful, and intellectually curious, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively
  • Strong organizational, communication, and time-management skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with intermediate to advanced Excel skills (e.g., formulas, pivot tables, data manipulation)
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred

Benefits

  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
  • Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances
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Starcom

3.7 Glassdoor

With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With almost 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellanova, McDonald's, Novartis, Samsung, Visa, WK Kellogg Company and more.

Founded in 1936
Chicago, Illinois, USA
6.1K employees (2,084 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
59% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$50K/yr – $74K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Paid Social median pay in the United States

$90K/yr

Most pay falls between $73K and $111K. Based on 1,128 salaries.

See all Starcom salaries

Funding

Total Funding
$57.1M
Last Raise
$43.2M
Series A, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Series A • $43.2M
  • Aug 2025
    Series A
  • May 2025
    Series A • $13.9M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.1%
Direct
41.6%
Referral
9.1%
Social
4.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.1K
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Analyst, Paid Social Media

Starcom · New York City, NY · On-site