Director, Paid Social

Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

$160K/yr – $195K/yrDirector/Executive

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Direct a multi-market paid social program across OSB and OC, driving strategy, investment, and measurement to lift acquisition and revenue.

  • Own the paid social strategy, execution standards, and performance roadmap across OSB and OC.
  • Must-have: 10+ years of paid social/digital media with hands-on leadership and multi-market budgets.
  • Standout: Leads agency/platform partnerships and executive-level reviews with cross-functional buy-in.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the overall paid social strategy, execution standards, and performance roadmap across Fanatics Sportsbook and Casino.
  • Set channel-level goals, forecasts, budgets, KPI frameworks, and performance targets in partnership with Marketing leadership, Finance, Analytics, and business stakeholders.
  • Lead investment allocation across OSB and OC, balancing acquisition scale, efficient payback, brand impact, creative learning, and long-term customer value.
  • Oversee campaign architecture, media planning, audience strategy, bidding, creative testing, platform diversification, and measurement across Meta, TikTok, Snap, X, Reddit, and emerging paid social channels.
  • Manage, coach, and develop Senior Social Media Planners/Buyers, ensuring clear ownership, high-quality execution, and consistent operating rhythms across the team.
  • Lead agency and platform partner relationships, including strategic roadmaps, quarterly business reviews, troubleshooting, and performance improvement plans.
  • Partner with Creative and Brand teams to build a scalable creative testing engine across sports, casino, product, promotion, influencer, partnership, and evergreen content themes.
  • Partner with Analytics and Marketing Technology teams to strengthen attribution, incrementality testing, conversion tracking, MMP integrations, reporting automation, and customer journey insights.
  • Build executive-ready performance narratives that connect paid social results to acquisition, deposit behavior, revenue, market share, annuity, brand health, and payback outcomes.
  • Drive structured testing roadmaps across creative, audiences, bidding, landing pages, app events, platform betas, and emerging social formats.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in paid social, performance marketing, growth marketing, or digital media, with significant hands-on and leadership experience in social media buying.
  • 3+ years of people management experience, including experience developing managers or senior individual contributors.
  • Proven ability to manage large, multi-market paid social budgets tied to acquisition, revenue, payback, brand, and lifetime value goals.
  • Deep expertise across Meta, TikTok, Snap, X, Reddit, MMPs (e.g. AppsFlyer), analytics platforms, and paid social measurement tools.
  • Strong understanding of creative testing, audience strategy, CAC, CPA, ROAS, LTV, payback, incrementality, market share, and performance forecasting methodologies.
  • Experience managing agencies, platform partners, creative stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and executive-level business reviews.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex performance and creative data into clear business decisions.
  • Detail oriented, deadline focused, observant, adaptable, and innovative.
  • Extensive knowledge of the sports betting and gaming industry preferred.
  • Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices in New York City and Denver as well as other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

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