Associate Director, Social Strategy

Birmingham, MI (On-site)

$107K/yr – $146K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 8 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own the development of holistic social strategies and playbooks across programs, translate insights into breakthrough ideas, and partner with multi-disciplinary teams to drive launches, partnerships, and ongoing brand relevance.

  • Lead social strategy across always-on, campaigns, and launches
  • Translate insights into creative briefs and breakthrough ideas
  • Mentor junior team members and advise clients

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Leading the development of social strategies, playbooks, and frameworks across always-on, campaign, and launch environments.
  • Translating social, cultural, consumer, and category insights into compelling creative briefs and breakthrough ideas.
  • Developing integrated social and content strategies that drive brand relevance and business impact.
  • Helping shape major launches, partnerships, tentpole moments, and experiential activations.
  • Partnering closely with creative, influencer, analytics, media, CRM, and production teams to deliver connected programs and customer experiences.
  • Serving as a trusted advisor to clients, confidently managing relationships and navigating high-visibility initiatives.
  • Identifying emerging cultural, platform, and technology trends that create new opportunities for the brand.
  • Mentoring and developing junior team members.

Requirements

  • 6-8 years of digital and social experience across agency, brand, or publisher environments.
  • Experience developing social strategies for automotive, mobility, consumer technology, telecommunications, connected products, or other high-consideration categories.
  • A strong track record supporting brand relaunches, product launches, major partnerships, tentpole moments, and integrated campaigns.
  • Experience developing social strategies for large-scale events, sponsorships, experiential activations, or other high-visibility brand moments.
  • Experience leading social strategy within large integrated teams, partnering across creative, media, CRM, influencer, analytics, communications, and production disciplines.
  • Experience working on connected-service, subscription, ownership, or customer lifecycle businesses, with an understanding of how social can drive consideration, adoption, engagement, retention, and advocacy.
  • Expertise in organic social strategy, with strong familiarity across paid social, influencer strategy, content ecosystems, and measurement.
  • Experience crafting creative briefs, inspiring breakthrough work, and translating insights into actionable strategic recommendations.
  • Exceptional client management, communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
  • A collaborative mindset and passion for mentoring others.

Benefits

  • 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. 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.
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Digitas North America

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Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

Founded in 1980
Boston, Massachusetts, US
2.8K employees (892 in marketing)
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82% CEO approval

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Referral
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6.2%
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Current headcount: ~2.9K

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Median Career Experience
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Median Tenure
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