Account Director, Paid Social

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape the senior paid social program, translating client goals into integrated cross‑platform strategies, guiding teams, and safeguarding quality while driving growth opportunities across Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Pinterest, LinkedIn, X, and emerging channels.

  • Strategic Ownership: translate business goals into clear paid social roadmaps and KPI-aligned strategies across multiple platforms.
  • Team and Client Leadership: mentor, coach, and coordinate senior teams while building trusted client partnerships and driving executive-level updates.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as the senior, day to day paid social lead for assigned accounts, building trusted, long term client partnerships.
  • Lead senior client meetings, performance reviews, and strategic planning sessions with confidence and authority.
  • Translate client business goals into clear paid social strategies, frameworks, and roadmaps aligned to key performance indicators.
  • Own client satisfaction, proactively identifying growth opportunities and responding to challenges with clear, strategic solutions.
  • Lead the development of integrated paid social strategies across platforms including Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Pinterest, LinkedIn, X, and emerging channels.
  • Oversee campaign planning, activation, optimisation, and testing frameworks to deliver against both performance and brand objectives.
  • Ensure best in class quality standards, QA processes, and platform best practices are consistently applied across all activity.
  • Embed WPP Media Social Excellence and DPAM (Discover, Plan, Activate, Measure) methodologies into all outputs and ways of working.
  • Maintain oversight of account budgets, forecasting, and pacing to ensure financial accuracy and delivery against agreed client targets.
  • Partner closely with planning, data, analytics, and creative teams to deliver integrated, cross channel outcomes.
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30K employees (6,827 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
159.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$9.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.3%
Direct
46.3%
Referral
10.7%
Social
5.7%
Paid
2.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~30.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6,288 (21% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
21