Associate Analytics Director, Social Marketing & Strategy

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$95K/yr – $138K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

You will own the analytics and measurement discipline for social programs, leading insights, reporting, and AI-enabled innovation across paid, owned, earned, and influencer workstreams.

  • Define and drive analytics strategy and client-facing insights
  • Build scalable dashboards and data storytelling pipelines

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Integrate analytics, social listening, and consumer intelligence into strategic planning and campaign development.
  • Lead social listening initiatives, including trend identification, signal detection, conversation analysis, sentiment analysis, and cultural insight generation.
  • Develop scalable measurement frameworks, reporting processes, and KPI structures across paid, owned, earned, and influencer programs.
  • Build and enhance automated reporting solutions that deliver timely, actionable insights to clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Partner with data, analytics, and technology teams to improve data collection, reporting workflows, and dashboard capabilities.
  • Analyze social performance data and translate findings into clear recommendations that inform marketing and business decisions.
  • Create compelling client-ready presentations, dashboards, and executive-level summaries.
  • Ensure reporting accuracy, consistency, and data quality across ongoing and ad hoc deliverables.
  • Serve as a strategic, client-facing analytics lead, presenting insights and recommendations to both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Identify opportunities to improve departmental processes, operations, and the overall use of analytics across the organization.

Requirements

  • 7-9 years’ experience
  • Strong experience in social analytics, social listening, and performance measurement.
  • Experience analyzing earned, owned, paid, and influencer marketing performance.
  • Ability to identify trends, audience insights, and actionable recommendations from data.
  • Experience using social listening, analytics, and reporting tools such as Sprinklr, Brandwatch, Quid, Sprout Social, Tableau, and SQL.
  • Strong understanding of audience research and consumer insights using tools such as GWI, YouGov, or Telmar.
  • Experience building dashboards, reporting frameworks, and processes that improve decision-making.
  • Strong data storytelling, presentation, and communication skills.
  • Comfortable distilling and presenting findings, implications, and recommendations to clients and senior stakeholders in a dynamic way.
  • Proven ability to turn data into strategic insights and scalable solutions.

Preferred

  • Experience with AI-powered tools and emerging technologies in analytics.

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,
  • Paid parental leave.
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