Senior Paid Social Lead - Campaign Performance & Growth

Sphere Digital Recruitment; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphere Digital Recruitment is partnering with a leading digital and performance agency in Cape Town to hire a Senior Account Executive, Paid Social. This hands-on role owns campaign performance, optimisation and client communication across multiple accounts.

The position offers a hybrid Cape Town setup (2 days in office, 3 remote). You will launch and optimise campaigns, monitor results, test new strategies, prepare insights for clients and support junior team members.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Paid Social campaign management across platforms.
• Ability to optimise campaigns and budgets.
• Strong client communication skills.
• Ability to analyse data and report insights.

Responsibilities

• Build and launch high-quality Paid Social campaigns across relevant platforms.
• Take ownership of day-to-day campaign management and optimisation.
• Monitor campaign performance and carry out regular optimisations to improve results.
• Analyse performance trends and implement data-driven solutions.
• Manage budgets and pacing to avoid overspend or underspend.
• Develop and implement new creative tests and platform features.
• Translate campaign data into clear insights and next steps for clients.
• Lead day-to-day client communication within your area of responsibility.
• Build strong client relationships and respond to requests professionally and promptly.
• Support reporting and automated dashboards for relevant accounts.
• Stay up to date with new Paid Social developments and test opportunities.
• Share learnings with the team and guide junior colleagues.

Skills

Paid Social

Campaign management

Client communication

Data-driven optimisation

Job description

Sphere Digital Recruitment is partnering with a leading digital and performance agency in Cape Town to hire a Senior Account Executive, Paid Social. This hands-on role owns campaign performance, optimisation and client communication across multiple accounts.

The position offers a hybrid Cape Town setup (2 days in office, 3 remote). You will launch and optimise campaigns, monitor results, test new strategies, prepare insights for clients and support junior team members.