Manager, Paid Social

brainlabs; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Brainlabs is an independent agency delivering high‑impact Paid Social campaigns across multiple US locations. This role focuses on delivering campaigns that outperform KPIs, defining plans, tracking progress, and mentoring teammates while collaborating with clients to drive results.

You will work in a dynamic, office‑centric culture with flexible in‑office requirements, and opportunities to influence automation and processes, ensuring ongoing growth of our Paid Social practice.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in Paid Social delivery.
• Strong passion for craft and continuous learning.
• Proven ability to optimise campaigns through automation, processes and tech adoption.

Responsibilities

• Deliver highly successful campaigns that meet KPIs, on budget and on time.
• Define campaign delivery plans and measurement targets.
• Track and optimise campaigns effectively.
• Serve as primary client contact for day-to-day tasks and deliverables.
• Develop and implement guidelines and processes for automation or optimisation.
• Contribute to best-practice roadmap to grow Paid Social capabilities.
• Mentor colleagues to grow the team’s knowledge and skills.

Skills

Paid Social

Campaign delivery

Data analysis

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Brainlabs is the independent, founder‑led agency building the future of media. We have over 1000 Brainlabbers based across the global, all united through the 12 principles laid out in our Culture Code. We're full-service, with people and AI agents working side by side, all aligned to one thing: maximizing our clients' revenue through a genuinely scientific approach to media. If you want to help play your part in achieving this for the world's biggest brands in an environment that will support and challenge you in equal measure, this is where you do it. So you’re interested in becoming a Manager, Paid Social? Let's dive into what that means:

Classification: Full-time
Reporting to: Director, Paid Social
Location: New York City, New York | Dallas Fort Worth, Texas | Boca Raton, Florida | San Francisco, California | Los Angeles, California
Compensation: We hire candidates across our US office locations and at varying levels of experience. Our posted salary ranges reflect differences in both location and experience, with final compensation determined once a candidate’s background and location are confirmed.
Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship or continuation for this position.

In this role you will:

• Be responsible for delivering highly successful, brilliant campaigns that outperform KPIs, to budget and on‑time.
• Start to define campaign delivery plans and measurement targets.
• Effectively track and optimise campaigns.
• Be a point of contact for our clients on day to day tasks and deliverables.
• Develop and implement, as well as follow guidelines and processes contributing to ideas around automation or process improvement.
• You’ll actively contribute to developing best‑practice roadmap so that our Paid Social offering is continually developing.
• Mentor others across the practice helping to grow capability and knowledge.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has a strong Paid Social delivery track record with 2+ years of experience.
• Is passionate about their craft.
• Has demonstrable success in optimising Paid Social campaigns and work through automation, processes and technology adoption/development.
• Has a good understanding about how other channels work and optimise together.
• Is a confident, dynamic, engaging and authentic communicator who cares about the quality of work and continuous learning.
• Is passionate about growing the knowledge of those around you.
• Has excellent presentation skills and strong data analysis and reporting skills.
• Has a strong attention to detail, methodical and process orientated.

And this is what success looks like in the role:

• You will live our culture code every day!
• Effective campaign creation and delivery metrics.
• Internal targets/metrics on technology adoption and process optimisation met.
• You will hit our quality assurance metrics on all campaigns you lead.
• Client satisfaction targets being met (internal & external)
• Learning certifications created and met across the practice.
• Active involvement in mentoring less experienced Paid Social colleagues.

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Current position range $70,000 — $105,000 USD

A note on our offices: We pride ourselves in being a company with an office‑centric culture and, for the majority of roles we expect people to be in commuting distance of the office and come in for around 3 days per week.

Brainlabs actively seeks and encourages applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and identities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace: we are committed to equal opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the application process, please let us know!