Senior Manager, Paid Social Marketing (Remote)

USA (Hybrid)

$125K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own paid social strategy and end-to-end execution across multiple platforms with budget stewardship and rigorous testing to drive scale and clear performance insights.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build and evolve testing roadmap for creative, audiences, bidding, placements, and landing experiences.
  • Channel Ownership: Drive seven- to eight-figure budgets with end-to-end campaign setup, optimization, and pacing across Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, Snap, and emerging platforms.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with Design, Analytics, Data Science, Lifecycle, and Legal to ensure compliant, high quality performance creative and robust measurement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy and execution of paid social campaigns across Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, Snap, and emerging platforms
  • Manage campaign setup, creative, audience targeting, bidding, budget pacing, and daily optimization
  • Translate broader marketing goals into channel-level plans, KPIs, and quarterly roadmaps
  • Partner with the Senior Director on budget allocation and scaling decisions
  • Manage, mentor, and develop a direct report, setting clear goals, providing regular feedback, and supporting their career growth
  • Delegate effectively to maximize team output while maintaining quality
  • Build a culture of curiosity, accountability, and rigor within the paid social team
  • Build and maintain a structured testing roadmap covering creative, audiences, bidding strategies, placements, and landing experiences
  • Run clean, hypothesis-driven experiments with clear read-outs and documented learnings
  • Identify scaling opportunities and quickly diagnose underperformance before it becomes a budget problem

Requirements

  • Minimum five (5) years of paid social experience, inclusive of 2 years managing people or leading a channel end-to-end
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience required.
  • Direct experience managing direct reports, with a track record of developing team members
  • Strong track record managing seven- or eight-figure paid social budgets with measurable results
  • Deep platform expertise in Meta Ads Manager and TikTok Ads Manager; strong working knowledge of at least one additional platform (LinkedIn, Reddit, Snap, Pinterest)
  • Fluency with analytics and attribution tools (GA4, Looker, Tableau); SQL is a plus
  • Strong instincts for performance creative — what works, what doesn’t, and how to brief for it
  • Comfort with experimentation concepts: incrementality, holdouts, statistical significance
  • Excellent communicator who can present results and recommendations clearly to senior leaders
  • Bias for action, organized under pressure, and honest about trade-offs

Preferred

  • Background in a variety of lead gen marketplaces
  • Experience in financial services categories, particularly insurance

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits including paid vacation time, medical, tuition reimbursement, and training
  • Collaborative Work Environment ~ Fun, diverse, inclusive and ambitious co-workers
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