Associate Director, Paid Social

Responsibilities

• Understands client goals and business needs and acts as a strategic partner to provide insightful, innovative, and data-driven paid social recommendations; Provides strategic recommendation for media budget allocation and managing partner endeavors, negotiation deals or ensuring agency rates are applied.
• Oversees all elements of social campaigns to ensure executional excellence, implementation of best practices, and channel innovation.
• Provide guidance on new Paid Social opportunities as the subject matter expert for all assigned clients, translating industry jargon and concepts for clients and internal stakeholders to understand and champion.
• Evolves team process and aligns and ensures the paid social strategy and team is working with other channel disciplines in support of the assigned clients; Key participant in strategic media planning and execution.
• Plays an active role in conflict resolution. Identifies, manages, and resolves problems before they escalate.
• Budget and Financial: Ultimately responsible to ensure billing and budget accuracy troubleshooting issues and escalating if needed.
• Serve as a resource for Managers, Senior Associates and Associates for advice and counsel as well as career development, training and motivating the team
• Oversee Asana for task management and team collaboration
• Responsible for QA of initial campaign build outs (ensure tracking, budgets, audiences, creatives, and timing are correct)
• Oversee client budgets to ensure plans do not exceed Media Authorizations; Responsible for reporting budget plans and commissions to internal finance teams

Requirements

• Substantial experience in account management, planning, and/or performance media experience
• Very strong experience in developing robust, creative, and innovative paid social / native advertising / content marketing programs – in excess of $1mm annually
• Strong understanding of cross channel planning, demonstrating strong coordination of digital and offline media efforts.
• Extensive experience writing and presenting relevant information
• Understanding of marketing and communications process, and ability to execute streamlined processes across clients, media partners, and other agencies.
• Demonstrated ability to grow junior talent and help develop team skills / careers
• Knowledge of all social platforms a must. This includes understanding of buying & reporting within platforms at this level for QA and training for teams

Preferred

• Agency experience preferred