Associate Director, Paid Social

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Associate Director, Paid Social, you will be driving performance, guiding account teams and orchestrating growth for top advertisers across top paid social platforms.

We are looking for someone with a passion for paid social advertising, well versed in other digital acquisition channels, and a people-focused leader who wants to join a thriving digital agency that is hyper-focused on client performance and ROI.

The ideal candidate is confident in their ability to drive improvements in account performance, successfully build and oversee client relationships, and develop our awesome talent.

Client & Revenue Oversight :

• Serve as the paid social lead for our top clients, for which you will direct strategy and optimize Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest, & other paid social platforms
• Guide overall account strategy, forecasting, and planning for roster of performance B2B, retail and lead generation clients across various industries ranging from $100k-$700k / month in ad spend
• Drive creative strategy and coordinate with creative teams to tailor optimal messaging and iterate creative based on performance
• Generate strong revenue growth from client renewals on your team
• Participate in onboardings, QBRs, renewal calls, and other important client communications for your team’s accounts
• Serve as a senior sponsor contact for several client accounts led by your team : building relationships with client decision makers, elevating the strategic conversation, and ensuring an exceptional client experience

Team Management :

• Manage a small team of Senior Managers and their team members, including Account Managers and Analysts
• Train your team in advanced paid social advertising, multi-channel digital marketing strategy and client management skills including projections, analytics reporting, etc.
• Focus on personnel development through ongoing feedback, performance reviews and weekly 1-on-1s with direct reports
• Motivate and guide team to hit quarterly account growth and retention targets through support

ABOUT YOU

• 5+ years of paid social client management experience
• 1+ year in a supervisory role directly overseeing other digital marketing professionals
• Facebook / Instagram / LinkedIn experience is a must, Pinterest / Snapchat / TikTok experience is a plus
• Passion for crunching numbers and analyzing data in core platforms like Google Analytics and Facebook Business Manager, while navigating Excel spreadsheets and Google sheets
• You are a communication guru when presenting digital marketing strategy to C-Suite and executive audiences
• You frequently find yourself stepping into leadership roles and want those around you to succeed
• Not afraid to get in the weeds, but still able to see the trees, forest, and ecosystem
• Driven’ and Innovative’ are attributes commonly associated with you
• 4-year college degree or equivalent work experience

Not a Must, but a Plus :

• Directly managed paid social budgets of $100,000+ in monthly ad spend
• Exposure to paid search, display and remarketing efforts
• Comfortable optimizing toward back-end metrics from a CRM such as Salesforce

Please note that even if you do not meet all of the above criteria, we encourage you to apply!

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What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Media.Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge!)

Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting.

Media.Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range$95,000 $115,000 USD

About Media.Monks :

Media.Monks is the purely digital operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 8,600+ digital natives across one global team.

We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth.

Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption.

Our efforts to shape culture, build innovative technologies and unlock the future of growth have earned recognition from numerous esteemed panels : we maintain a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-22), regular recognition at Cannes Lions, inclusion in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players (2020-23), the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-23), a record number of FWAs, and have earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

Together, these achievements solidify our experience in digital innovation, excellence in craft, and commitment to personal growth.

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