Senior Manager - Paid Social

Northlake, IL (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own and lead a multi-platform paid social program with a $15M+ budget, driving strategy, testing, AI integration, and agency partnerships across major social channels.

  • Define strategy, testing, and measurement aligned to business goals
  • Lead performance creative and analytics to inform decisions
  • Drive AI adoption and agency collaboration to scale growth

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead the enterprise paid social strategy across Meta, TikTok, Reddit, Nextdoor, YouTube, and other relevant platforms, with full accountability for a budget of $15M+ annually.
  • Establish channel roles, investment strategies, audience approaches, campaign structures, and testing roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
  • Serve as the internal subject-matter expert on paid social, staying ahead of platform changes, ad formats, targeting capabilities, measurement solutions, and best practices.
  • Scale winning audiences, creative concepts, campaigns, and channels, and know when to pull back from underperforming investments.
  • Translate complex media data into clear performance reporting and actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
  • Evaluate, adopt, and scale AI capabilities within the ad platforms (e.g., automated bidding, campaign automation, generative creative tools, and AI-driven audience and placement optimization).
  • Identify and integrate external AI tools that improve creative development, analysis, reporting, testing velocity, and workflow efficiency.
  • Set the vision for how AI is embedded into our paid social program, and hold agency partners accountable for using it responsibly and effectively.
  • Build and manage a structured testing framework that continuously evaluates concepts, hooks, messaging, formats, creators, visual treatments, CTAs, offers, and audience/creative combinations.
  • Develop clear hypotheses, establish testing priorities from performance data, customer insights, and platform trends, and create a disciplined process for validating results.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in paid social, performance marketing, or digital marketing, with increasing ownership and strategic responsibility.
  • Proven track record scaling paid social programs across Meta, TikTok, Reddit, and Nextdoor, with deep, hands-on expertise in Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
  • Experience managing annual paid social budgets of $15M or more.
  • Proven track record managing enterprise-level paid social programs across acquisition, consideration, conversion, and/or retention.
  • Deep knowledge of AI tools, both within the ad platforms and externally, and a natural curiosity about integrating AI into paid social programs.
  • Exceptional understanding of performance creative and what makes it work in a paid social environment.
  • Demonstrated experience building creative testing programs and translating results into actionable insights.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to connect media metrics to business outcomes, including incrementality and attribution.
  • Experience managing and holding external agencies accountable for strategy and performance; experience managing creative agencies, production partners, or creators is highly desirable.
  • Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to move between high-level strategy and tactical execution.

Benefits

  • Health benefits.
  • Paid time off and holiday pay.
  • Wellness program.
  • Professional development & career advancement opportunities.
  • Lots of perks.
  • We take care of our people. We start investing in you from day one. The perks and benefits we offer help you live well, both at work and at home.
  • We have an unmatched company culture. We’ve won multiple awards for employee and customer satisfaction, and we believe it all comes down to our culture of teamwork, creativity, and growth.
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Founded in 1959
Melrose Park, Illinois, USA
2.3K employees (40 in marketing)
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0% CEO approval

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$120K/yr – $140K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
40 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Debt Financing

Funding History

  • Nov 2024
    Debt Financing

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
319K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.6%
Direct
17%
Referral
8%
Social
3.4%
Paid
9.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.3K

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Senior Manager - Paid Social

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