Account Lead, Paid Social

Job description

Accountabilities: Lead and develop a team of paid social professionals through ongoing mentorship, coaching, feedback, and guidance on platform and media best practices. Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the business objectives, audiences, challenges, and opportunities across your client portfolio. Lead the strategy, planning, activation, and execution of paid social campaigns, ensuring high-quality delivery and alignment with client goals. Provide strategic leadership across Meta platforms, particularly Facebook and Instagram, translating business objectives into effective paid social strategies and direct-response tactics. Stay current on platform developments, industry trends, testing opportunities, and agency best practices, ensuring recommendations remain innovative and effective. Act as a senior escalation point for client issues, providing guidance to account teams and stepping in directly when necessary to resolve challenges and protect client relationships. Contribute to major client deliverables, including executive presentations, business and quarterly reviews, annual planning, strategy meetings, and performance discussions. Audit campaign analytics and reporting to identify actionable insights, optimization opportunities, and recommendations that support business growth. Guide upper-funnel campaign strategy and use Brand Lift Studies and other measurement approaches to inform optimization and future planning. Establish clear career paths, development objectives, and succession plans while helping team members progress into more senior roles. Partner across disciplines to strengthen integrated client strategies and ensure paid social recommendations contribute to broader business objectives. Requirements: 6+ years of paid social experience, including at least 4 years in a client-facing media, advertising, or marketing role. Proven experience managing at least two direct reports or team members, with a demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and develop talent toward more senior responsibilities. Deep hands-on expertise with Meta Ads Manager and the ability to communicate paid social objectives, performance targets, and direct-response strategies effectively to clients. Strong understanding of both strategic and tactical paid social campaign management, with the ability to work at a detailed execution level when required. Demonstrated experience developing upper-funnel campaign strategies and implementing or interpreting Brand Lift Studies to guide optimization and future planning. Strong analytical skills, including the ability to audit campaign performance, interpret media data, identify trends, and translate findings into actionable client recommendations. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to present complex strategies and insights to senior client stakeholders. Strong leadership, organizational, problem-solving, and relationship-management skills. Ability to operate effectively in a collaborative, fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities and maintaining high standards of execution. A proactive, curious mindset and willingness to experiment, challenge assumptions, and identify new opportunities for client growth. Benefits: Competitive annual base salary of $96,000–$120,000 USD for U.S. remote employees, depending on experience, expertise, location, and organizational impact. Healthcare, dental, and vision coverage. 401(k) plan with company matching. Paid time off. Paid company holidays. Paid parental leave. Fully remote working opportunity. Inclusive, collaborative environment focused on professional development and meaningful client work. Support for reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process and employment. Opportunities to work across innovative technology, marketing, media, and growth initiatives. 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Our partner is looking for a Account Lead, Paid Social based in United States. This leadership role is an opportunity to shape paid social strategy and performance for ambitious, high-growth brands. You will work closely with senior media leaders while managing and developing a talented team of paid social specialists. The role combines strategic thinking, hands-on platform expertise, client leadership, and people management. You will help translate business objectives into innovative social strategies across the full funnel, from awareness through direct response. As a senior client partner, you will influence major presentations, strategic planning, optimization, and performance recommendations. The environment is collaborative, fast-moving, and focused on experimentation, professional growth, and measurable client impact.