Senior Director, Paid Social

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Director, Paid Socia l, you will be a leading our social practice, guiding account teams and orchestrating growth for top advertisers across top paid social platforms.

We are looking for someone who blends a passion for paid social with a track record of coaching and development. The ideal candidate is confident in their ability to manage and develop our awesome talent, but also drive best-in-class paid social strategy

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 $200k-$1MM / 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

Paid Social Practice Leadership :

• Initiate, codify and secure adoption of paid social best practices across the agency
• Participate in client pitches, developing cutting edge social strategy in relatable go-to-market format
• Join in for key meetings with clients bringing broad paid social trends as well as knowledge of specific applicable tools to recommend
• Audit across channels, account size, business types to provide playbook for account teams
• Develop leadership in critical areas - creative testing, attribution, incrementality testing, tracking, targeting, algorithmic delivery, A / B testing structure

Team Management :

• Manage a team of Directors / Associate Directors 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 :

• 8+ years of paid social client management experience
• Proven team leadership and minimum of 5 years of management experience
• Experience developing best practices for a paid social business unit
• Experience directing strategy for both eComm and B2B paid social efforts
• In-platform fluency across multiple paid social platforms including Meta, LinkedIn,

TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Pinterest

Thorough knowledge of platform mechanics - campaign structure, algorithmic

delivery, audience options, placement / inventory

• Experience participating in the hiring process for all levels of paid social expertise
• Ability to think strategically and drive solid results to grow the business
• Strong data analytics and strategy background
• Exceptional communication skills with experience presenting to large teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an eagerness to work as a member of a

fast-growing

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$139,000 $160,000 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world.

Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave : Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24).

In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories : the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.

Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects.

Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents and resonates with the world around us.

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