Paid Social Manager

Irvine, CA (On-site)

$90K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize end-to-end social media programs for clients, driving growth, engagement, and measurable performance across paid and organic channels.

  • Define long-term social strategies aligned to client goals
  • Manage multi-channel campaigns from planning to reporting
  • Collaborate with designers, content teams, and influencers to scale impact

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement long-term social media strategies to increase presence, engagement, and organic follower growth, aligning with client needs and goals, as well as agency growth objectives.
  • Leverage market data to develop themes and topics, optimizing for campaign goals, and ensuring brand consistency in style, quality and tone.
  • Efficiently manage all paid and organic social media campaigns, employing best practices, meeting deadlines, and tracking progress.
  • Execute end-to-end paid social media campaigns in a timely and accurate manner, inclusive of campaign planning and setup, ad creation, quality control, budget pacing, testing, measurement/reporting, Pixel installation and optimization across multiple social platforms and varied client verticals.
  • Set clear channel and campaign goals and KPIs, and consistently track and report against them, using historical benchmarks to measure success, gain insights, and develop future action plans.
  • Cultivate strong relationships with clients, over the phone, video, and in-person, ensuring their satisfaction and identifying upselling or cross-selling opportunities.
  • Collaborate with clients to identify the best approach for influencers, negotiating fair rates for content and ensuring the relevant agreements are in place.
  • Work closely with digital designers on social ad creatives; when necessary, use Canva to design or edit ads that drive action, and create social videos and reels.
  • Partner with internal teams (creative/design, content, SEO, and PPC) to integrate marketing efforts, analyze campaigns’ results, and share insights across channels and programs.
  • Stay up-to-date with social media trends, platform changes, and cutting-edge tactics, and apply learnings to campaigns.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Digital Media, Communications, Marketing, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in social media management and influencer campaigns, including strategic planning and execution, preferably in a digital media agency setting.
  • Experience in a fast-paced, performance-focused media agency.
  • Solid grasp of current social media landscape; passionate about emerging social media platforms, trends and technology.
  • Working knowledge with a range of Influencer Content Management Systems, and the ability to learn new systems.
  • Client relations experience: ability to understand and assess clients’ business and communication needs, and meet those needs through successful digital and social programs.
  • Flexible, agile, adaptable to rapidly changing conditions, assignments, and deadlines.
  • Proactive and highly organized with the ability to handle concurrent projects with ease and attention to detail, prioritizing as necessary.
  • Strong writing and copy editing skills for compelling, creative social content.
  • Exceptional and engaging written, verbal communication, and visual presentation skills

Preferred

  • Knowledge of leading social media monitoring platforms (Meltwater, Radian6, SOCi, etc.) is a plus.
  • Working knowledge of enterprise CMS platforms, including Wordpress, is advantageous.
  • Experience in Canva, Adobe, Zapier, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, etc. is a bonus.
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YPM

Founded in 1981, YPM is considered the premier and respected leader in providing high quality, cost-effective digital media and print solutions. Our comprehensive suite of lead generation services spans across media channels including digital media service, organic optimization, paid and local search, mobile and interactive media advertising, online brand management, and social media marketing.

Founded in 1981
Irvine, California, USA
95 employees (30 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$90K/yr – $120K/yr

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
994
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26.7%
Direct
50.6%
Referral
7.6%
Social
13.3%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~95
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Paid Social Manager

YPM · Irvine, CA · On-site