Account Executive, Paid Social

The Ogilvy Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ogilvy Health in New York is seeking an Account Executive specializing in Paid Social, Social Analytics, and Generative Impact to support leading healthcare and pharmaceutical clients.

This role emphasizes technical media buying, campaign trafficking, data analytics, social listening, and GEO insights, with cross-functional collaboration to align paid social with AI discovery while upholding MLR compliance and brand guidelines.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years hands-on paid social media execution.
• Experience trafficking campaigns in self-serve platforms (Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok).
• Familiarity with analytics and GEO concepts.
• Understanding of healthcare/pharma marketing, MLR guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building, launching, trafficking, and managing paid social campaigns across platforms.
• Support GEO insights and AI-driven discovery alignment.
• Analyze performance data and prepare weekly/monthly reports.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize assets and messaging.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations (MLR) and brand guidelines.

Skills

Paid social campaigns

Social analytics

Generative AI / GEO

Data reporting

Healthcare marketing knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing/Advertising

Tools

Meta Ads Manager

LinkedIn Campaign Manager

Sprinklr

Brandwatch

Google Analytics

Job description

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy more than 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity-innovating at the intersection of intelligence, imagination and influence, with experts across advertising, sports & entertainment, PR & social, consulting, and health collaborating seamlessly across more than 120 offices spanning 90 countries. Ogilvy was named Network of the Year at the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity andranksas the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC for the fourth consecutive year, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.For more information, visitOgilvy.com, and follow us onLinkedIn,X,Instagram, and Facebook.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unitecutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counselin a single company -powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open,to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visitWPP.com.

OGILVY HEALTH: WE INSPIRE PEOPLE AND BRANDS TO IMPACT THE WORLD

Guided by this vision, Ogilvy Health, part of WPP, combines borderless creativity, scientific precision, cultural fluency, andAI-enabled capabilitiesto build healthcare's most influential movements.We believe the future belongs to those who can seamlessly blend human ingenuity with emerging technologies, using AI not simply as a tool, but as a catalyst for deeper insights, faster problem solving, and more impactful work.We drive measurable impact and category-defining growth for brands ready to shape what's next. Our approach is powered by fearless creativity that dares to be different, sparks emotional connections, and inspires action, ensuring cultural resonance. Scientific precision translates complex data into stories that resonate, while our impact-obsessed mindset focuses on delivering real-world outcomes.

For more information on us, visitOgilvyHealth.com, or follow Ogilvy Health onLinkedIn,Instagram,Facebook,X, andThreads.

About the Role

As anAccount Executive specializing in Paid Media Buying, Social Analytics, and Generative Impact, you will assist the technical and strategic processes across paid social and digital media activation, social listening, and emerging AI search visibility for leading healthcare and pharmaceutical clients.

This isnot a traditional Account Management AE role-you will not be managing day-to-day project logistics, call agendas, or administrative client account management. Instead, your core focus is technical media buying, campaign trafficking, data analytics, social listening, and Ogilvy's proprietaryGenerative Impact (Generative Engine Optimization / GEO)offering.

What You'll do:

Paid Social & Digital Campaign Execution & Media Operations

• Campaign Setup & Media Buying: Assist in building, launching, trafficking, and managing paid social media campaigns across self-serve ad platforms (e.g., Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, etc.) and support activation and coordination across digital media channels such as GOOH (Digital OOH), Programmatic, Search, Direct Partnership and Sponsorships.
• Audience & Targeting Strategy:Assist in building and implementing compliant audience targeting parameters tailored to healthcare stakeholders (HCPs, patients, caregivers) in alignment with platform policy and healthcare privacy regulations.
• Medical/Legal/Regulatory (MLR) Compliance:Ensure all paid social assets, ad copy, and targeting parameters comply with brand guidelines, platform policies, and FDA/MLR regulatory requirements.

Generative Impact & GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

• AI Search Visibility Tracking:Support Ogilvy'sGenerative Impactoffering by tracking, analyzing, and measuring brand visibility, sentiment, and share of voice across generative AI search engines and LLM platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews).
• GEO Insight Generation:Identify prompt opportunities, content gaps, and source citation trends in AI-generated responses to help optimize healthcare brand discovery.
• Search-Social Integration:Connect paid social strategy with GEO insights to ensure brand messaging is aligned across both social feeds and AI discovery platforms.

Social Intelligence, Analytics & Listening

• Data Aggregation & Performance Reporting:Extract performance metrics across paid social campaigns and aggregate data to build weekly, monthly, and post-campaign analytical reporting decks.
• Social Intelligence & Listening:Utilize enterprise social listening tools (e.g., Brandwatch, YouScan, Quid, Sprinklr) to monitor share of voice, emerging disease-state conversation trends, competitor paid activity, and audience sentiment.
• Dashboard Management:Maintain and update client analytics dashboards and reporting templates to ensure data accuracy and real-time visibility into KPI performance.

Client Relations

• Paid Media & Analytics Advisory:Interact directly with clients to answer technical questions regarding paid media execution, social listening findings, platform algorithm updates, and GEO trends.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:Partner with internal creative, strategy, media planning, and account management teams to optimize creative ad assets based on real-time performance data and social listening insights.

What You'll Need:

• Experience:1-2 years hands on in paid social media execution, social listening, or marketing analytics-preferably within an advertising agency or healthcare/pharmaceutical environment.
• Paid Social & Media:Direct experience trafficking campaigns inside self-serve ad platforms (Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, etc.).
• Search: Hands on experience supporting paid search campaigns in Google Ads, including keyword research, campaign and ad group setup, ad trafficking and quality assurance, negative keyword management, budget pacing, bid and performance optimization, and reporting.
• Analytics, Listening & GEO: Familiarity with enterprise social listening/reporting platforms (e.g., Sprinklr, Brandwatch, YouScan, NetBase Quid, Google Analytics, advanced Excel/Google Sheets).
• Strong interest inGenerative Engine Optimization (GEO), AI search platforms (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini), and prompt monitoring.
• Self-motivation, strong organizational skills, attention to detail and excellent time management skills.
• Healthcare Knowledge: Understanding of pharmaceutical/healthcare marketing, MLR review processes, and healthcare privacy/compliance guidelines is highly desirable.
• AI Fluency:Demonstrated curiosity and proficiency in using generative AI and applicable emerging technologies. Ability to adapt to new tools and integrate AI responsibly into day-to-day work is expected.

How We'll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We'll empower you with the tools you'll need to succeed. We'll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We'll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we'll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you'll be proud, with people you'll be proud to call your teammates.

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.

Pay Range$45,000—$100,000 USD

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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