Associate Director, Social

New York City, NY (On-site)

$97K/yr – $156K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own social media strategy and client relationships, while guiding content creation, plan development, and activation across platforms to drive social commerce outcomes.

  • Strategic Ownership: Define client social objectives, oversee plans, and lead weekly results discussions.
  • Content & Activation: Collaborate with creatives, traffic assets, and influencers to activate content and test social commerce ideas.
  • People & Process: Build a capable team, coach others, and manage cross-functional agency relationships for consistent delivery.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Guide and drive social media strategies for certain client account(s) and help to set overall objectives
  • Build, maintain and grow client relationships and client business
  • Oversee, author and/or constructively edit and review the writing of social media documents (timelines, POVs, RFPs, plans, agreements, client memos, and correspondence from within and outside the agency).
  • Prepare plan presentations and oversee preparation of social media plan presentation elements
  • Supervise, direct and review the development and implementation of specified social media plans
  • Lead weekly social media meetings with clients and provide insight into weekly online media results
  • Work closely with creative teams for trafficking assets and execute activation of content & amplification of influencer posts and content
  • Develop, plan and execute social test and learns, specifically around social commerce activation
  • Build and maintain relationships with social media publishers and internal agency counterparts
  • Understand and adopt new social media trends and/or processes for clients

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing or advertising highly preferred
  • 3+ years of social media planning and buying experience, preferably at an advertising or media agency
  • Extensive experience working with social media ad platforms (Meta, TikTok and Pinterest are priorities) with extensive knowledge in full funnel capabilities and objectives (awareness, traffic and sales)
  • Strong leadership and managerial skills, guiding the junior staff
  • Must be a self-starter, with strong planning and organizational skills and the ability to work with minimal direction
  • Strong time-management and organizational skills
  • Experience managing multiple, competing priorities, duties and/or projects
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills; client facing presentation, statuses and reporting proficiency is key
  • Proven ability to develop and maintain strong professional relationships with clients, colleagues, and vendors
  • Experience with CPG or social commerce capabilities and ad formats across all social platforms.
  • Required PC proficiency and solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Experience analyzing social data and market research
  • Proficiency in Prisma, Budget tracking, Actualization/reconciliation and client billing familiarity
  • Understanding and respect for taxonomy compliancy; experience with taxonomy tools or process

Benefits

  • Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
  • Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive.
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Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,719 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
13.5 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
215