Director, Paid Social

Job description

The Director, Paid Social leads paid social strategy, planning, and team development for healthcare and life sciences clients. This role develops client-ready paid social recommendations across platforms such as Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat, Pinterest, X, and other social media channels. The role partners across Media, Analytics, Strategy, Creative, and Client Services to deliver measurable campaign performance, strengthen cross-channel planning, and grow Klick’s paid social capabilities. What You’ll Do Develop paid social media strategies and plans across Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat, Pinterest, X, and emerging social platforms. Lead client-facing paid social recommendations, performance readouts, and strategic planning discussions with senior stakeholders. Manage and coach paid social team members, providing feedback, training, and guidance on strategy, execution, and optimization. Apply brand safety, ad viewability, fraud filtering, and platform best practices to improve paid social campaign quality and performance. Collaborate with Media, Analytics, Creative, Strategy, and Client Services teams to connect paid social plans to integrated campaign goals. Required: 7+ years of online advertising experience, including 5+ years of client-facing experience developing paid social strategy and campaign recommendations. Hands-on paid social experience with Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat, Pinterest, X, GDN, Amobee Social, or comparable platforms. Experience managing and mentoring team members, including training junior talent and reviewing paid social work for quality and performance. Experience applying brand safety, ad viewability, suspicious activity filtering, and fraud prevention practices to active media campaigns. Advanced Excel experience and working proficiency in PowerPoint or Word for campaign analysis, reporting, and client-ready presentations. Experience managing multiple client campaigns, timelines, deliverables, and performance priorities in an agency or client-service environment. Desired: Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done. Experience working with pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated-industry clients. Experience planning paid social campaigns for the US market. Experience building cross-channel communications plans that connect paid social to broader media strategy. Experience developing new paid social processes, platform testing approaches, or channel growth recommendations. This vacancy is for a backfill here at Klick Health. The base salary range for this position is between USD $125,000 - $145,000. The final amount offered will be determined based on several factors such as a candidate's work location, their unique skill set, education, and prior work experience. #LI-TH1 #LI-Hybrid Our Commitment to Inclusion Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience. The Klick Group —comprising Klick Health (including Klick Katalyst and btwelve), Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures—is an ecosystem dedicated to realizing the full potential of our people and clients in life sciences. Founded in 1997, we have offices in New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. Consistently named a Best Managed Company, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and Great Place to Work, Klick is committed to fostering a high-performance, people-first culture with creativity, collaboration, innovation, and impact across everything we do. About Klick Media Our Media Craft ensures that Klick’s work reaches the right audiences at the right moments. This craft combines audience insight, data, and technology to drive measurable impact. Media teams continuously test, learn, and optimize to improve performance. Their work connects strategy and creativity to real-world results.