Senior Associate, Paid Social

Starcom Worldwide, Inc.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 61,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Family Care

Tuition Assistance

Flexible working arrangements

Work Your World program

Matching Gifts

Wellness programs

Job summary

Starcom Worldwide, Inc. is seeking a Senior Analyst to manage and optimize paid social campaigns across Meta, TikTok, Reddit, and more. The role emphasizes data-driven decision-making, meticulous QA, and cross-team collaboration to meet client objectives.

Ideal candidates will have 2+ years of hands-on paid social experience, strong Excel and analytics abilities, and a collaborative mindset to thrive in a fast-paced agency environment within Constellation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in marketing, advertising, business, marketing, or equivalent.
• 2+ years of paid social bid management and campaign development/optimization on Meta, TikTok, Reddit.
• Digital media operations experience preferred.
• Strong analytical thinking and mathematical skills with data.
• Experience with Meta, TikTok and Reddit Ads platform or 3rd party API technology.
• Resourceful, curious, and motivated, able to work independently and in a team.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with Excel.

Responsibilities

• Execute, manage, and optimize media campaigns for agency clients across paid social platforms.
• Drive strategic paid social expertise within the team and develop innovative strategies.
• Direct and manage daily workflow of campaigns including activation and maintenance.
• Collaborate with Analytics to create weekly/monthly reports and insights.
• Demonstrate diligence and attention to detail following agency best practices.
• Maintain and organize campaign materials and documentation.
• Handle daily campaign maintenance and tracking questions.
• Contribute to proposals for new client opportunities.
• Manage delivery of assets and documentation for campaign launches.
• Run QA processes to ensure accurate implementation and pacing.
• Generate and manage monthly billing and spend reporting.
• Participate in knowledge-sharing sessions to optimize performance.

Skills

Paid social bid management

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in marketing/advertising/business

Tools

Meta Ads

TikTok Ads

Reddit Ads

3rd party API technology

Job description

Company description

With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With more than 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellogg Company, McDonald's, Novartis, Samsung, Visa and more.

This role at Starcom will serve as a member of Publicis Groupe's strategic internal agency, Constellation.

Constellation serves as an internal-facing brand formed by a collective of Publicis Groupe agencies to address our client's creative, data, strategy, media, and technology requirements. Team members collaborate across agencies while functioning as sub-divisions within their respective brands to provide dedicated support for the client. By acting as a unified interface, Constellation eliminates operational silos and presents a single service entity and primary point of contact for the client.

Overview

The Senior Analyst is responsible for campaign management activities such as set-up, documentation creation and maintenance, QA, performance reporting, and billing reconciliation for a specific client. The Senior Analyst is also responsible for identifying and implementing optimizations as approved by the manager and client. The ideal candidate is an organized, data-driven, collaborative self-starter who is eager to learn and thrives in a fast-pace, ever-changing landscape. They will have at least two years of hands-on experience in executing paid ad campaigns across Meta, Tiktok, and Reddit with the highest level of accuracy with additional experience in Snapchat and Pinterest being preferred. Our social team works across a diverse range of sectors on some of the largest and most dynamic clients within the agency. We are looking for an enthusiastic leader and paid social expert who is keen to submerge themselves into a number of projects.

Responsibilities

• Execute, manage, and optimize media campaigns and programs for agency clients (e.g. paid social, auction/exchange based performance media, audience-based buying, remarketing campaigns) both independently and in support of Managers
• Assist the team in driving strategic paid social expertise within the team as well as helping to develop innovative strategies to meet and exceed client business objectives
• Direct and manage the daily workflow of all paid social campaigns, including proposal development, campaign activation & maintenance, and post-buy recaps
• Work in collaboration with the Analytics team to create weekly/monthly reports, including analysis for insights, optimizations, and future strategy development
• Demonstrate diligence, attention to detail, and adherence to agency best practices
• Maintain and organize campaign-specific materials
• Handle daily campaign maintenance, including internal questions regarding tracking and status of various campaigns
• Contribute to the assessment of inventory availability and the formulation of proposals for new client opportunities
• Manage the delivery of creative assets, insertion orders, campaign artifacts, and all relevant campaign documentation in preparation for campaign launch
• Run the campaign QA process to ensure accurate campaign implementation, pacing, and performance
• Generate and manage monthly bill/pay and spend reporting
• Participate in regular knowledge share sessions to share and learn new strategies for optimizing and enhancing campaign performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in marketing, advertising, business, marketing, or equivalent
• 2+ years of experience in paid social bid management, paid social campaign development/management/optimization with the use of leading Social platforms (e.g. Meta, Tiktok, Reddit)
• Digital media operations experience preferred
• Strong analytical thinking and mathematical skills and an ability to manage data
• Experience with Meta, Tiktok and Reddit Ads platform or 3rd Party API technology
• Resourceful, curious, and motivated individual with an ability to work independently as well as in a team setting
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with intermediate to advanced understanding of Excel

Additional information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
• Matching Gifts programs
• Flexible working arrangements
• 'Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
• Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

We also offer medical and voluntary benefits to our freelancers and temporary employees. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance. You must be actively employed for 90 consecutive calendar days in order to be eligible for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits.

Starcom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $60,800.00 - USD $80,000.00/Annually.

The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/1/2026.