Paid Social Account Director

Publicis Groupe; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical cover

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Job summary

Spark Foundry, the Acceleration Agency, is hiring a Paid Social Account Director to lead ambitious, multi-platform work for key clients in London. You’ll shape strategy, turn data into actionable insights and help clients navigate an evolving media, technology and privacy landscape.

You will work across teams to deliver measurable performance while developing talent and improving how we work, with a role based in White City, London.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in paid social strategy, activation, client partnership and team leadership.
• In-depth knowledge of paid social channels, measurement and the relationship between media, data and creative work.
• The ability to explain complex information clearly and turn analysis into practical recommendations.
• Experience managing significant projects, budgets and client priorities with sound commercial judgement.
• A collaborative approach that brings different teams and perspectives together to solve problems.
• A commitment to operational quality, continuous improvement and responsible, privacy-conscious marketing.
• A supportive leadership style, with the ability to coach others and contribute to an equitable and inclusive culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead paid social strategy, planning and activation across a varied mix of platforms and client accounts.
• Build measurement frameworks that connect paid social activity with client objectives and demonstrate incremental value.
• Turn platform, audience and campaign data into clear insights that inform decisions and improve performance.
• Partner with clients, internal teams and platform providers to develop integrated, privacy-conscious solutions.
• Encourage thoughtful experimentation with new technology, products and approaches while maintaining quality and commercial focus.
• Strengthen campaign planning, quality assurance, financial governance and team processes to reduce risk and improve efficiency.
• Coach and support colleagues, recognise their contributions and help create an inclusive environment where people can develop and do their best work.

Skills

Paid social strategy

Team leadership

Client partnership

Analytics & measurement

Budget management

Privacy-conscious marketing

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Facebook/Meta Ads Manager

LinkedIn Ads

Google Ads

Job description

Company description

Who We Are in the UK?

Spark Foundry, the Acceleration Agency.

We help brands to identify, learn and respond to opportunities faster than the competition.

Every client has an area of their business they need to accelerate, from short-term goals to long-term transformation.

We’ve proven our approach during the most difficult year on record. Now we’re using it to provide a launchpad for their future.

Come be an accelerator with us.

How we accelerate

• Planning: an approach that works in practice rather than theory, arming planners with the ability to create cutting edge campaigns
• Intelligence: a suite of tools that give definitive answers to big questions, and uncovers actionable insights about real people
• Trading: a model built on flexibility and trusted relationships, underpinned with bold guarantees
• Relationships: a culture of asking challenging questions to better understand the brief - we are not a ‘yes’ agency
• People: a strong history of recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds and accelerating their careers

Our Commitment

We are diverse though our experience, people and the clients we look after - and we celebrate that diversity. Our people hold us accountable to our beliefs and via regular surveys and our grass roots D&I team, The Collective, and internal next generation board, Firestarters, we hold regular events and work continually towards generating ideas, initiatives and educating our people to ensure we are a diverse and inclusive agency.

As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Spark Foundry is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

Overview

We’re hiring a Paid Social Account Director to lead ambitious, multi-platform work for key clients. You’ll shape strategy, turn data into meaningful action and help clients navigate an evolving media, technology and privacy landscape. Working across teams and disciplines, you’ll create measurable performance impact while developing talented people and improving how we work. This is an opportunity to combine paid social craft, innovation and collaborative leadership in a role based in White City, London.

Responsibilities

• Lead paid social strategy, planning and activation across a varied mix of platforms and client accounts.
• Build measurement frameworks that connect paid social activity with client objectives and demonstrate incremental value.
• Turn platform, audience and campaign data into clear insights that inform decisions and improve performance.
• Partner with clients, internal teams and platform providers to develop integrated, privacy-conscious solutions.
• Encourage thoughtful experimentation with new technology, products and approaches while maintaining quality and commercial focus.
• Strengthen campaign planning, quality assurance, financial governance and team processes to reduce risk and improve efficiency.
• Coach and support colleagues, recognise their contributions and help create an inclusive environment where people can develop and do their best work.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in paid social strategy, activation, client partnership and team leadership.
• In-depth knowledge of paid social channels, measurement and the relationship between media, data and creative work.
• The ability to explain complex information clearly and turn analysis into practical recommendations.
• Experience managing significant projects, budgets and client priorities with sound commercial judgement.
• A collaborative approach that brings different teams and perspectives together to solve problems.
• A commitment to operational quality, continuous improvement and responsible, privacy-conscious marketing.
• A supportive leadership style, with the ability to coach others and contribute to an equitable and inclusive culture.

Additional information

Spark Foundry offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:

Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).

Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.

At Spark Foundry, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.

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