Senior Paid Social Manager

Think Differently; Dublin; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

ThinkDifferently, an Ireland-based media agency, is seeking a Senior Paid Social Manager to own strategy, planning, and results for a portfolio of high-profile clients. You will lead a small team and drive delivery across multiple paid social platforms, ensuring strong client communication and consistent performance.

You will shape how the team delivers, coaching junior members and collaborating with cross-functional groups.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in paid social, ideally within a media agency
• Strong grasp of campaign planning, activation, optimisation, measurement, and reporting
• Solid experience across major paid social platforms
• Confident, polished client communicator with presentation skills
• Experience mentoring or line managing junior team members
• Familiarity with tracking, tags, events, and Google Tag Manager, troubleshooting when needed

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, planning, and results for your portfolio of clients
• Lead paid social activity across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Snapchat, BeReal, X, and Pinterest
• Manage relationships with top-tier clients and participate in high-level conversations
• Ensure delivery, optimisation, reporting, and reconciliation land on time
• Review team output and maintain quality across planning, implementation, and reporting
• Be the first point of escalation for campaign, platform, or reconciliation issues
• Collaborate with Digital Performance Director and other media teams
• Support workload management and integrated planning across the group
• Coach and develop junior team members through reviews and feedback
• Set priorities, approve leave, and contribute to salary reviews

Skills

Paid social strategy

Campaign planning & optimisation

Client communication

Mentoring / team leadership

GTM tagging & tracking

Multi-client delivery

Tools

Google Tag Manager

Job description

Senior Paid Social Manager

The opportunity

We're working with a well established media agency in Dublin to find a Senior Paid Social Manager who's ready to step into real ownership: strategy, performance, and delivery across a portfolio of high profile accounts, plus the leadership of a small team of Paid Social Managers, Specialists and Executives.

You'll be setting the paid social direction for major clients and shaping how a team delivers against it. If you're commercially sharp, comfortable in front of clients, and you actually enjoy developing people rather than just managing them, this is worth a serious look.

Where you'll spend your time

• Owning strategy, planning, and results for your portfolio of assigned clients
• Leading paid social activity across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Snapchat, BeReal, X, and Pinterest
• Managing relationships with top tier clients, including a seat at the table for the important conversations
• Making sure delivery, optimisation, reporting, and reconciliation are accurate and land on time, every time
• Reviewing team output and holding the line on quality across planning, implementation, and reporting
• Being the first point of escalation when campaign, quality, platform, or reconciliation issues come up
• Working closely with the Digital Performance Director and collaborating across Search, Social, and wider media teams
• Supporting workload management, knowledge sharing, and integrated planning across the group
• Coaching and developing junior team members through regular one to ones, feedback, and performance reviews
• Setting priorities, reallocating work, approving leave, and having input into salary reviews

What you'll bring

• 6+ years in paid social, ideally built inside a media agency
• Strong grasp of campaign planning, activation, optimisation, measurement, and reporting
• Solid experience across the major paid social platforms
• A confident, polished client communicator with genuine presentation skills
• Experience mentoring or line managing junior team members
• Familiarity with tracking, tags, events, and Google Tag Manager, including troubleshooting when things go sideways
• Sharp organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise under pressure
• Comfort managing multiple clients and competing deadlines at once
• A collaborative, proactive, commercially minded approach to the work

Salary from 55K DOE + benefits

At ThinkDifferently.ie we are an equal opportunity agency. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic origin or disability status.