Senior Director, Paid Social

USA (Remote)

$142K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level9+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Lead and develop a 2–5 director-level team to retain and grow client business, drive profitable operations, and advance paid social through measurement modernization and AI-enabled workflows.

  • Oversee key accounts and executive strategy
  • Drive full-funnel measurement (MMM, incrementality) and AI workflows
  • Mentor and develop leaders and teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Managing a team of 2–5 Director and Associate Director level leaders, with primary responsibility for client retention and growth within your group, profitable management of your group's resources and P&L, and contributing to the company's overall OKRs and vision roadmap
  • Overseeing multiple key client accounts, providing executive leadership, business strategy, and leading innovation conversations across your group's book of business
  • Championing full-funnel measurement modernization (incrementality testing, MMM, and platform partner adoption) and AI-assisted workflows across your group to keep Wpromote's paid social offering ahead of the industry
  • Providing annual performance reviews, in-depth monthly check-ins, and customized professional development plans for your direct reports
  • Maintaining the ability to train and coach Directors, Associate Directors, and account teams on paid social fundamentals — media planning, campaign building and optimization, reporting, platform nuances, and data processing and analysis
  • Coaching direct reports on foundational leadership skills, including clear communication, expectation setting, rapport building, active listening, and conflict de-escalation
  • Continuously refining and updating the training process and materials for new hires, with an eye toward scalable, AI-enabled onboarding
  • Maintaining sufficient knowledge of core digital marketing channels, including paid search, SEO, content marketing, email marketing, and programmatic, to help lead Wpromote's move toward a truly integrated paid media practice
  • Assisting the sales team on audits, decks, and pitches for prospective clients
  • Improving business processes and workflows to better enable collaboration and efficiency between account teams, clients, and business units such as accounting or marketing

Requirements

  • 9+ years of experience working in paid media advertising, comprising media planning/buying in paid social for high-growth ecosystems within an agency environment
  • Minimum of 3–4 years of prior staff management experience, with career development and mentoring experience
  • A positive attitude and strong coaching/leadership skills
  • Both performance marketing and brand marketing/planning experience required
  • Experience contributing to new business pitches, strategic audits, or account growth planning
  • Strong fluency with measurement approaches such as incrementality testing, MMM, and server-side/CAPI integrations, or experience overseeing teams that operationalize them
  • Experienced with data analytical tools such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics
  • Working knowledge of the platform partner ecosystem (e.g., Meta Business Partners) and broader ad tech landscape
  • Expert working experience in Google Suite, Excel, PowerPoint, and Asana
  • Strong experience building and articulating full-funnel, growth marketing initiatives for a diverse range of clients and verticals (ecommerce/retail and lead gen preferred)

Preferred

  • Experience with Smartly, Sprinklr, or other AI-enabled advertising, automation, reporting, QA, or ad operations tools
  • Track record designing or operationalizing AI-assisted workflows, automation, or tooling that materially improved efficiency or quality
  • Advanced analytical skills (SQL or comparable analytics proficiency, comfort with BI/dashboards)

Benefits

  • Remote-first culture
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Extended Holiday break (Winter)
  • Flexible schedules
  • Work from anywhere options*
  • 100% paid parental leave
  • 401(k) matching
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Pet Insurance
  • Sponsored life insurance
  • Short Term Disability insurance and additional voluntary insurance
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Wpromote

Wpromote is a top independent marketing agency that challenges convention to accelerate growth for brands. We believe every client, including legacy enterprise brands like Whirlpool, category leaders like Spanx, and fast-growing DTCs like Vuori, can maximize the business impact of media with the right outcomes-driven partner. Our holistic total commerce approach drives transformative results for retail brands across channels and purchase points, powered by our Challenger culture, deep business intelligence, and predictive Polaris platform. To stay ahead of the rapid evolution of commerce and consumer behavior, we put data-driven testing and experimentation at the heart of our organization and delivery model so our clients can outsmart instead of outspend the competition and move fast to capitalize on opportunities in an ever-changing media ecosystem

Founded in 2001
El Segundo, CA, US
694 employees (281 in marketing)

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$142K/yr – $160K/yr

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Senior Director, Paid Social

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