Vice President, Paid Social

New York City, NY (On-site)

$149K/yr – $239K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and lead paid social strategy and team execution for assigned clients, delivering integrated plans, performance analytics, and strategic advisory across platforms while driving growth and talent development.

  • Lead paid social strategy, planning, and optimization at the client level
  • Shape and communicate a strategic vision that includes AI-driven targeting and automation
  • Build trusted senior-client relationships and mentor the team

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic vision and overall leadership for paid social initiatives across assigned clients, ensuring strategies align with client business and marketing objectives.
  • Maintain overall oversight of workflow, priorities, and assigned responsibilities within the team, ensuring projects are delivered completely, accurately, efficiently, and on time.
  • Develop comprehensive paid social strategies across relevant platforms, partners, bidding technologies, and campaign management tools.
  • Develop action plans for achieving and measuring campaign success, including establishing key performance indicators, measurement frameworks, and optimization strategies.
  • Analyze campaign performance and translate data into actionable insights and recommendations that improve performance and identify opportunities for growth.
  • Guide teams in optimizing campaigns and implementing new platform features, technologies, strategies, and best practices.
  • Work closely with strategic planning, digital planning, activation, and other agency partners to ensure paid social is integrated with broader client marketing initiatives.
  • Deliver strategic presentations and performance recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on paid social, keeping clients and agency partners informed of industry trends, platform developments, emerging technologies, and new opportunities.
  • Define and champion the strategic vision for leveraging AI-driven targeting, automation, and personalization across paid social, ensuring capabilities are applied at scale to drive measurable business growth and competitive advantage

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in digital media, paid social, and/or marketing, with increasing levels of responsibility within an agency or media company.
  • Significant experience leading paid social strategy and execution in an agency environment, including direct client-facing responsibilities.
  • Strong understanding of paid social platforms, campaign management and bidding technologies, publisher self-service platforms, and the broader social media ecosystem.
  • Experience developing and executing paid social strategies against both brand-building and direct-response objectives with clearly defined KPIs.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret campaign performance data, develop insights, and make strategic optimization recommendations.
  • Demonstrated business acumen and a track record of success in media, marketing, or advertising services.
  • Proven ability to build and strengthen senior-level client relationships and serve as a strategic advisor.
  • Strong presentation, communication, relationship-building, diplomacy, and decision-making skills.
  • Ability to think strategically and creatively while translating complex media and data concepts into clear recommendations.
  • Experience evaluating the financial implications of strategic recommendations, including scopes, staffing, budgets, and/or fees.

Benefits

  • Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
  • Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Zenith is the ROI Agency. Our more than 6,000 specialists across 95 markets offer unparalleled capabilities in Media, Data, Technology, Commerce and Content. We put effectiveness at the heart of our work to solve complex challenges, drive successful business outcomes, and grow our clients’ businesses. Zenith is part of Publicis Media, the media arm of Publicis Groupe [Euronext Paris Fr0000130577, CAC40].

Founded in 1988
Лондон, Англия, GBR
5.6K employees (1,571 in marketing)
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80% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$149K/yr – $239K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$350K
Last Raise
$350K
Series A, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Series A • $350K

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Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.7%
Direct
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Referral
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Social
4.2%
Paid
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