Paid Social Media Strategist

Overland Park, KS (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 23 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own paid social strategy and execution for assigned accounts, shaping multi-channel plans and client-facing recommendations across platforms, audiences, testing, and measurement.

  • Lead planning and development of paid social strategies aligned with client objectives
  • Partner with analytics to establish KPIs and optimize performance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead paid social planning across assigned accounts, translating client business objectives and integrated media strategies into actionable paid social recommendations.
  • Develop paid social strategies and tactical plans across platforms, audiences, campaign objectives, placements, formats, investment levels, and measurement approaches.
  • Determine the appropriate role of paid social within integrated media plans in partnership with client media leads and cross-channel planning teams.
  • Develop and present paid social recommendations that clearly articulate the strategic rationale behind platform, audience, investment, and tactical decisions.
  • Develop audience and targeting strategies using client data, platform capabilities, audience insights, historical performance, and media research.
  • Partner with media and analytics teams to establish paid social KPIs and measurement approaches aligned with broader campaign and client objectives.
  • Evaluate paid social platforms, products, targeting capabilities, and emerging opportunities and develop informed points of view and recommendations for clients.
  • Develop strategic testing roadmaps across audiences, creative, placements, formats, platform capabilities, and campaign approaches.
  • Apply learnings from campaign performance, media research, consumer behavior, and platform developments to evolve paid social strategies over time.
  • Maintain advanced knowledge of the paid social landscape and translate relevant platform, technology, privacy, measurement, and consumer changes into implications and opportunities for client businesses.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in digital media, with significant experience in paid social strategy, planning, activation, and optimization.
  • Advanced working knowledge of major paid social platforms, particularly Meta and TikTok, with experience across additional platforms such as Pinterest, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Reddit, and emerging social channels.
  • Demonstrated experience translating client business and marketing objectives into paid social strategies, tactical plans, audience approaches, and investment recommendations.
  • Strong understanding of digital media planning principles, audience strategy, campaign architecture, budget allocation, optimization, testing, measurement, and reporting.
  • Experience developing and presenting paid social strategies, platform recommendations, performance insights, and points of view to clients and internal stakeholders.

Benefits

  • MMGY Global provides a comprehensive PTO + benefits package that includes a hybrid telework policy.
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MMGY Global is the world's leading integrated marketing company specializing in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry representing multiple agency brands with one goal: to inspire people to go places. Our communications practice is composed of multiple best-in-class brands including Travel Intelligence, TCI Research, Grifco, Hills Balfour, Lieb, MMGY, the company's flagship integrated marketing agency, Myriad, NJF, NextFactor, Origin and Wagstaff. Together, we represent more than 600 travel and tourism marketing experts across the globe.

Founded in 1981
Overland Park, Kansas, USA
446 employees (140 in marketing)
49% recommend to a friend
62% CEO approval

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Search
39%
Direct
43%
Referral
9%
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Paid
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Paid Social Media Strategist

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