Senior Manager, Paid (Temporary)

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$60/hr – $75/hrSenior Level7+ years expTemporary

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive paid social programs across TikTok, Meta, and LinkedIn, including audience planning, campaign architecture, budgeting, optimization, and influencer-amplification, while partnering with account teams and guiding hands-on execution as priorities shift.

  • Own paid social strategy and performance across platforms
  • Lead collaboration with account teams and analytics to translate strategy into client-ready recommendations
  • Oversee budgets, playbooks, and team delegation

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop paid social strategies across platforms including TikTok, Meta, and LinkedIn, from audience and channel planning through campaign architecture, budgeting, and optimization.
  • Partner closely with account teams to align paid programs to client goals, integrate paid into the broader communications plan, and translate strategy into clear client-facing recommendations.
  • Design and run influencer-amplification programs, including boosting creator and influencer content as a core campaign lever (whitelisting/Spark Ads, partnership ads, and paid amplification best practices).
  • Delegate effectively across the team by setting direction, assigning ownership, and reviewing work while staying flexible enough to step into hands-on execution when priorities shift.
  • Manage budgets, pacing, and platform infrastructure, and maintain best-practice playbooks for campaign setup and optimization.

Requirements

  • Proven experience building and managing paid campaigns natively in TikTok, Meta (Ads Manager), and LinkedIn Campaign Manager.
  • Demonstrated success partnering with both account/client-facing teams and analytics functions to drive campaign insights.
  • Hands-on experience amplifying influencer/creator content within paid campaigns.
  • Excellent communication skills and comfortable presenting strategy and results to clients.
  • 5-7 years' Paid Social experience
  • Minimum of 3-5 years professional interactive work experience; agency or client-side experience
  • Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in marketing/business/PR/Communications or related field preferred
  • Successful track record of building and presenting strategic paid social programs, recommendations and tactics for clients and effectively executing programs
  • Ability to translate paid media platforms, technologies and metrics into succinct, compelling, conversational language for a variety of audiences
  • An individual who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, working effectively with colleagues and clients across organizations and geographies
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Golin Ketchum

We are an industry-leading global public relations agency, creating change that matters for our clients and our people. The kind of change that earns attention and shapes culture to build business. Fiercely ambitious, fundamentally kind.

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