Associate Director, Paid Social

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $125K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive social strategy and leadership for a senior role focused on retail clients, blending paid media, analytics, and team development.

  • Own the social strategy and oversee execution across client book.
  • Must-have: 5+ years managing paid social for commerce/retail.
  • Standout: Leadership in hiring, training, and cross-functional collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Social Associate Director oversees the social function on their book of clients.
  • Developing overall paid social media strategy, helping to grow the client’s business through additional platforms and ensuring team execution meets and exceeds client expectations.
  • The Social Activation team is tasked with employing highly analytical and quantitative strategies to drive campaign performance and maintain client relationship.
  • As a Social Associate Director, individuals are expected to remain at the forefront of paid social commerce techniques, continually defining industry standards through their grasp of digital technologies and a commitment to leveraging data for innovative problem-solving.
  • Team Leadership: Determine how to use social resources most efficiently and succession plan for resources.
  • Effectively manage and lead all social team members on client team(s).
  • Identify training and development needs of client team and broader functional team.
  • Build training materials and determine how to effectively implement with the client team and broader functional team; receive consistent feedback on needs from teams.
  • Develop processes, methodologies, best practices and frameworks for client team and broader functional team; work with team members to ensure they are being used.
  • Consulting with the agency as needed to ensure best practices are being used and to brainstorm new approaches to achieving client goals.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising or communications
  • 5+ years building and/or managing paid social campaigns with vertical expertise working on a commerce/retail client.
  • Experience managing paid social campaigns for Meta, TikTok, Snap and Pinterest. Must have in-platform experience and expertise working on performance campaigns.
  • Possess advanced knowledge of direct marketing principles and strategies.
  • Have polished presentation, communication and listening skills.
  • Have advanced organizational skills being able to manage multiple projects at once.
  • Be a proactive self-starter.
  • Have online media sales and/or interactive ad agency experience.
  • Understands feed management and best practices.
  • Have developed cross channel performance strategies to drive business sales.

Preferred

  • Meta Blueprint Certified is strongly recommended in addition to other platform certifications including TikTok Academy, Pinterest Academy, Snap Focus, etc.

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • vision insurance
  • dental insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
  • vacation days
  • sick days
  • personal days
  • paid parental leave

Beauty Co-Lab

Beauty Co-Lab (BCL) is a bespoke Omnicom Group unit for L’Oréal USA delivering an industry-leading agency solution that drive business growth and transformation. We deliver data-driven, audience first full-funnel strategies that move people from consumers to brand advocates. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty, with the goal of offering each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity. At BCL, our mission is to co-create what's next and our team of beauty champions and media challengers possess modern media, commerce and analytics skillsets to keep pace with the rapidly changing ecosystem and reflect the wonderful diversity of the consumers and communities we serve. We are passionate about beauty, media and technology - if you are too, please check out our job listings and consider joining our team.

Founded in 2023
New York, New York, USA
295 employees (57 in marketing)

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