VP, Social Strategy

Omnicom Media; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Media is seeking a Vice President of Social Strategy to lead GEICO's integrated social strategy across paid, organic, creator, content, partnerships, and measurement. This senior client-facing role defines operating models, governance, and escalation protocols to drive business impact.

You will work with client, media, creative, analytics, platform, and agency teams to translate insights into action.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive social strategy, integrated marketing, media, or related experience, including senior client management.
• Demonstrated success building integrated social strategies across paid, organic, creator, content, partnerships, and measurement.
• Deep understanding of major social platforms, audience behaviors, creative formats, platform algorithms, creator ecosystems, and emerging technologies.
• Experience leading strategy for a complex, highly visible brand; experience in regulated categories such as insurance or financial services is valued.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a unified social strategy that connects paid, organic, creator, and content workstreams.
• Define the role of each platform across the consumer journey and clarify how channels work together.
• Lead the annual social strategic plan and present the master strategy to GEICO leadership.
• Recommend organizational design, roles, reporting lines, and staff models required to execute the strategy.
• Translate marketplace, cultural, consumer, and platform shifts into client-specific implications and actions.
• Deliver recurring trends briefings and establish a cross-channel narrative with action-oriented recommendations.
• Partner with Paid Social to define rules for scaling creator and brand-led assets and investment thresholds.

Skills

Executive presence

Stakeholder influence

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Data-driven decision making

Mentoring teams

Regulatory awareness

Job description

Agency Omnicom Media

Job Function Media

Job Subfunction Performance Media

Job Description

Position Summary

We are looking for a Vice President, Social Strategy to lead the development and operationalization of GEICO's integrated social strategy across paid, organic, creator, content, partnerships, and measurement. This senior client-facing leader will define how each discipline works together to accelerate business impact, strengthen brand relevance, and improve decision-making across the social ecosystem.

The VP will serve as a trusted strategic advisor to client leadership and a connector across client, media, creative, analytics, platform, and agency teams. The role requires equal fluency in big-picture vision and practical execution: building the strategic blueprint, establishing channel roles and governance, turning cultural and platform shifts into action, and ensuring performance insights lead to clear next-best decisions. The ideal candidate is a collaborative, commercially minded social leader who can simplify complexity, influence senior stakeholders, and build the operating structures required to scale modern social marketing responsibly and effectively.

Roles & Responsibilities

Social Strategy & Ecosystem Architecture

• Create and maintain a unified social strategy that connects paid, organic, creator, and content workstreams.
• Define the role of each platform and channel across the consumer journey and clarify how channels work together.
• Lead the annual social strategic plan and present the master strategy to GEICO leadership.
• Recommend the organizational design, roles, reporting lines, and staff models required to execute the strategy.

Thought Leadership & Platform Intelligence

• Translate marketplace, cultural, consumer, and platform shifts into clear client-specific implications and actions.
• Deliver recurring trends briefings, an annual thought leadership point of view, and a competitive and category social landscape.
• Assess AI-enabled social capabilities across creative, targeting, and measurement, with a clear recommendation on where GEICO should lead, test, or monitor.

Paid Amplification Strategy & Agency Alignment

• Partner with Paid Social to establish rules for which creator and brand-led organic assets should be scaled, on which platforms, and at what investment thresholds.
• Align media and creative agency partners around a shared amplification playbook, roles, inputs, and decision-making expectations.

Integrated Social Operating Model

• Build and operationalize ways of working that connect insight, briefing, activation, measurement, and optimization.
• Define cross-channel decision rights and establish a unified social brief across paid, organic, and creator workstreams.
• Create enablement and onboarding materials that align GEICO and agency teams to the operating model.
• Establish escalation and risk protocols for reputational issues, crisis response, real-time management, and legal/compliance touchpoints.

Unified Reporting & Executive Recommendations

• Partner with UM Social Analytics to translate performance into a single cross-channel narrative with decision-oriented recommendations.
• Lead executive-level quarterly business reviews and campaign post-mortems that connect paid, organic, and creator performance to business learning.
• Define an engagement cadence that keeps GEICO CMO- and VP-level stakeholders aligned outside formal reporting cycles.

Platform Innovation, Partnerships & Creator Opportunity

• Maintain a forward-looking tracker of platform innovations, beta opportunities, and strategic partnerships relevant to GEICO.
• Develop a data-informed point of view on creative effectiveness across paid and organic social.
• Integrate platform innovation, partner value, and creator opportunities into campaign planning frameworks.

Key Characteristics & Qualities

• 12+ years of progressive social strategy, integrated marketing, media, or related experience, including senior client management. Experience expectations may be calibrated to the selected candidate and company leveling framework.
• Demonstrated success building integrated social strategies across paid, organic, creator, content, partnerships, and measurement.
• Deep understanding of major social platforms, audience behaviors, creative formats, platform algorithms, creator ecosystems, and emerging technologies.
• Experience leading strategy for a complex, highly visible brand; experience in regulated categories such as insurance or financial services is strongly valued.
• Proven ability to translate cultural, marketplace, competitive, and performance intelligence into business recommendations.
• Experience creating operating models, governance frameworks, decision rights, briefing systems, and cross-agency ways of working.
• Strong command of paid amplification strategy and the relationship between organic momentum, creator signals, media investment, and creative optimization.
• Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence CMO- and VP-level stakeholders and align cross-functional partners.
• Ability to move fluidly between enterprise vision, strategic detail, commercial implications, and practical implementation.
• Data-driven decision-making skills and comfort partnering with analytics teams to define KPIs, interpret performance, and recommend action.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and enabling multidisciplinary teams in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Sound judgment in reputational risk, crisis response, real-time issue management, and legal/compliance collaboration.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a proactive mindset focused on innovation, continuous improvement, and measurable growth.

$180k-$190k

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$180k-$190k