Director, Paid Social

New York City, NY (On-site)

$130K/yr – $150K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Able to serve as the paid social subject-matter expert for clients and internal teams
  • Leads strategy while remaining close enough to execution to understand progress in-platform
  • Manage daily pacing, budgets, bids, and optimization against KPIs
  • Strong communicator who can turn complex media performance into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders
  • Able to troubleshoot tracking/measurement issues and partner effectively with analytics, ad tech, and platform teams
  • Keeps current with evolving platform products, automation, AI-driven buying, and privacy changes
  • Can turn campaign data into clear actions—not simply report on results
  • Interpret results and understand the limitations of different measurement approaches
  • Partner with analytics teams to establish KPIs, measurement frameworks, and testing roadmaps

Requirements

  • 7+ years of paid social / digital media experience, with retail, luxury, fashion, beauty, or premium consumer brands strongly preferred
  • Proven experience leading paid social strategy across large, complex, multi-market or multi-brand businesses
  • Strong understanding of the full social ecosystem, including Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, and emerging platforms
  • Comfortable translating brand objectives into channel strategy, audience strategy, investment allocation, and activation plans
  • Experienced in mentoring teams and establishing best practices across accounts
  • Familiarity with brand lift studies, incrementality testing, attribution, and other advanced measurement methodologies
  • Deep knowledge of platform capabilities, optimization levers, targeting, creative formats, measurement, and platform best practices
  • Strong understanding of Conversions API (CAPI), pixels/events, first-party data, offline conversions, and signal quality
  • Strong performance media foundation, with the ability to Understands how to identify performance trends and make informed adjustments to investment, audiences, creative, placements, and bidding

Benefits

  • In addition to medical, dental and vision coverage, we offer a generous PTO plan, 401k program, comprehensive family planning benefits (including paid parental leave), and pre-tax commuter benefits. Benefits/perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Assembly and the location where you work.
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Assembly is Ad Age's 2022 Purpose-Led Agency of the Year!Assembly is made of the ingredients of the modern agency, bringing together data, talent, and technology to deliver a connected set of solutions for media + more to the best brands on the planet. We’re home to more than 1,700 of the industry’s top talent, who bring unmatched global omnichannel media expertise + data, technology, and business consulting capabilities that find change and fuel growth for brands worldwide. Assembly is a proud member of Stagwell, the challenger network built to transform marketing.

Founded in 2014
New York, New York, USA
2.3K employees (796 in marketing)
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$130K/yr – $150K/yr

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