Paid Social Manager

MAPUS Merkley and Partners; United States; Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid WFH/In-Office Schedule

Job summary

Merkley+Partners is seeking a social media specialist with 3–5 years of paid social experience to manage campaigns for luxury auto clients. The role involves campaign setup, QA, data analysis, and reporting within a collaborative agency environment.

You will work with cross-functional teams, develop client-ready materials, and stay ahead of social trends. The position offers a hybrid WFH/in-office schedule with salary in the 80k–90k range.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of paid social media campaign execution experience.
• Experience with Meta, TikTok, Reddit ad platforms.
• Strong client-facing communication skills.
• Proficient in Excel for budget and data analysis.
• Advanced PowerPoint deck-building abilities.
• Excellent organization and attention to detail.
• Accountability and teamwork oriented.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Genuine enthusiasm for social media platforms.

Responsibilities

• Support strategy development for paid social campaigns.
• Assist with campaign setup, QA, and performance checks.
• Analyze data and provide actionable optimization recommendations.
• Prepare client reporting and performance decks.
• Collaborate with partners on creative trafficking and pixel tracking.
• Participate in cross-agency meetings and platform partnerships.

Skills

Paid social campaigns

Client communication

Excel for data analysis

PowerPoint deck building

Campaign optimization

Team collaboration

Social media platforms (FB/IG, TikTok,

Job description

Agency: M+P Job Function: Media Job Subfunction: Social Media and Influencer Marketing Job Description: About Merkley+Partners: Merkley is a different kind of agency. We’re mid-sized, full-service, working across every marketing discipline. From brand strategy and creative to media and advanced analytics, we’re solving difficult brand and business challenges by any means necessary. We have long-tenured relationships with world-class clients like Mercedes-Benz, a host of CPG and dining clients, and a healthcare practice that is expanding by the day. Our growth and capabilities are only rivaled by our culture, which has an average employee tenure of over 8 years, more than 2X the industry norm. Something that has differentiated Merkley from day one is in-house media – from social to search and broadcast to programmatic, it’s all at Merkley, giving us a leg up on our competition and keeping our clients a step ahead of their competitors.

What We’re Looking For:

Merkley + Partners is seeking a social media super-user with 3-5 years of experience managing paid social advertising campaigns and is ready to take the next step in their career. In this role, you will use your knowledge and experience in the Paid Social world to help deliver industry-leading paid social solutions to a diverse client-base. A successful candidate will be a conscientious and organized team-player who is excited about social media, eager to learn, and ready to identify unique solutions for our clients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support Director and Supervisor in development of paid social media platform and campaign strategies for luxury auto client
• Support Associates and other managers in campaign set‑up and ad builds within native platforms– QA all work
• Analyze campaign data to identify optimizations and provide impactful recommendations
• Check in on campaign performance
• Help to build out full year plans and recommendations
• Develop and present insightful client reporting materials
• Build format and collaborate on client facing decks
• Work with an Associate on weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting needs
• Work with an Associate on collaboration with developer and site teams to ensure proper pixel implementation and tracking of URLs
• Collaborate with internal and external agency partners to help facilitate and steward creative trafficking workstreams
• Assist and participate in ongoing collaborative meetings with platform partners, cross-agency team and clients
• Identify emerging social media trends and monitor digital landscape updates that may impact client-base
• Help streamline ongoing and future workstreams, understanding the full breadth of campaign planning, execution and reporting, all the way through to monthly billing

Desired Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience across paid social media campaign execution within native ad managers (experience buying across Meta, TikTok, Reddit is required)
• Experience working with advanced targeting tactics in various capacities
• Experience speaking on client calls and all client facing forms of communication
• Comfort using Excel for data analysis and budget management
• Advanced deck building skills and experience in power point
• Strong organizational skills and attention-to-detail
• Conscientious with a strong sense of accountability
• Natural team player and problem solver
• Strong excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Genuine enthusiasm and excitement for social media including Facebook/Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, and Snapchat

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid WFH/In-Office Schedule $80,000-90,000

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