Paid Social Strategist

New York City, NY (Remote)

$77K/yr – $87K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize paid social strategy to drive performance and client outcomes across full-funnel initiatives.

  • Translate data into actionable insights and next steps
  • Lead client communications with plans, performance insights, and recommendations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the day-to-day paid social strategy and performance narrative for your accounts, connecting media performance to broader client goals
  • Develop full-funnel strategies across platforms, including budget allocation, platform roles, audiences, campaign structure, creative, and optimization priorities
  • Serve as a trusted client-facing expert, proactively bringing forward recommendations, opportunities, and clear points of view
  • Analyze performance to identify key drivers, risks, and opportunities, translating data into clear insights and actionable next steps
  • Develop learning agendas and testing roadmaps across creative, media, audiences, measurement, and emerging platform opportunities
  • Partner with Activation and cross-functional teams to ensure execution aligns with strategy, providing hands-on campaign and QA support when needed
  • Maintain strong operational ownership across budget pacing, forecasting, campaign accuracy, and overall account health
  • Build strong relationships with platform partners to identify strategic opportunities, new capabilities, and ways to continuously advance client programs

Requirements

  • 3+ years of hands-on paid social experience across a minimum of four major social platforms such as Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, Reddit, LinkedIn, or YouTube
  • Demonstrated ability to independently develop paid social strategies and recommendations based on client goals, performance, and business context
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to diagnose performance and turn data into a clear strategic narrative
  • Experience owning client communication and confidently presenting plans, performance insights, and recommendations
  • Strong understanding of full-funnel paid social strategy, creative testing, measurement, and platform best practices
  • Strong budget management, forecasting, and organizational skills with a high degree of accountability and attention to detail
  • Ability to take initial direction and quickly transition to an independent, proactive working style

Preferred

  • platform and digital marketing certifications are a plus
  • Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills, including comfort working with pivot tables and large datasets

Benefits

  • Full medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as generous retirement program
  • Thoughtful parental leave and return program
  • Flexible Time Off, holidays, quarterly Company “Recharge” Days, and holiday closure in December
  • Ongoing learning and development opportunities
  • Commitment to transparent DEIB practices
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Code3

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Code3 (formerly SocialCode) is a performance marketing partner working at the intersection of media, creative, and commerce, to help brands succeed faster. With more than a decade of experience, Code3 manages digital advertising for disruptor and global brands, across the world’s most powerful platforms including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging channels like Voice and OTT.

Founded in 2009
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
189 employees (45 in marketing)
51% recommend to a friend
41% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$77K/yr – $87K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
35 (19% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$19.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.2%
Direct
47.3%
Referral
8.3%
Social
6.6%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~189
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Paid Social Strategist

Code3 · New York City, NY · Remote