Associate Director, Paid Social

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$115K/yr – $130K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 7 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and lead the end-to-end paid social strategy, execution, and optimization for multiple clients, ensuring cross‑channel alignment and data‑driven recommendations across platforms.

  • Lead planning, testing, and measurement frameworks for paid social programs
  • Drive cross‑functional collaboration with search, programmatic, and analytics teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead paid social strategy development for multiple clients, ensuring recommendations align with business objectives, audience needs, and performance goals
  • Oversee channel planning, activation, optimization, measurement, and reporting across paid social programs
  • Develop platform-specific strategies and tactical recommendations across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, X, and emerging social platforms
  • Translate industry trends, platform updates, privacy changes, and beta opportunities into actionable recommendations for clients and agency teams
  • Establish and maintain paid social best practices, testing frameworks, operational standards, and measurement approaches
  • Remain hands-on in campaign setup, trafficking, optimization, and troubleshooting while providing strategic oversight and direction to the team
  • Oversee pharmaceutical platform requirements, including account verification, prescription drug advertising authorization, and resolution of ad disapprovals in partnership with platform representatives
  • Partner closely with Paid Search, Programmatic, Analytics, Strategy, and Client Services teams to develop integrated, full-funnel media strategies
  • Ensure paid social recommendations complement broader channel strategies and customer journeys
  • Collaborate with channel leads to identify cross-channel optimization opportunities and unified measurement approaches

Requirements

  • 6+ years of paid social planning, activation, and management experience, including significant experience within pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing
  • Deep expertise in Meta and LinkedIn, with experience across other relevant platforms such as TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, X, and emerging social platforms
  • Demonstrated ability to act as a strategic consultant and subject matter expert for both clients and internal stakeholders
  • Strong understanding of audience strategy, targeting methodologies, first-party data applications, privacy considerations, and measurement approaches
  • Experience developing integrated strategies alongside paid search, programmatic, and analytics teams
  • Proven success managing complex, multi-brand, and multi-channel paid media programs
  • Strong client leadership, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex platform dynamics into clear business recommendations
  • Experience leading and developing teams through coaching, mentorship, and performance management
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while balancing multiple priorities and stakeholders

Preferred

  • Experience with pharmaceutical regulatory considerations, medical/legal review processes, and healthcare marketing best practices strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
  • 401k with Company match of 50% on the first 6%
  • Adoption Assistance – Up to $2,500 of financial assistance
  • Company Paid Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
  • Short-Term Disability providing 100% of salary coverage
  • Paid Parental Leave for birth and non-birth parents (4 weeks)
  • Summer Fridays
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO)
  • 11 Holidays and End of Year Office Closure
  • Company provided Learning and Development opportunities
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Syntra Antwerpen en Vlaams Brabant (Syntra AB)

Syntra AB offers more than 800 courses to everyone.

Founded in 2002
Antwerp, Flemish Region, BEL
546 employees (40 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$115K/yr – $130K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
11.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
139.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
50%
Direct
40.3%
Referral
8.5%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~546
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Associate Director, Paid Social

Syntra Antwerpen en Vlaams Brabant (Syntra AB) · Chicago, IL · Hybrid