Paid Social Account Director

London | Hybrid Working | Permanent

We're partnering with a leading global media agency to recruit an experienced Paid Social Account Director to join their London team.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead best-in-class Paid Social strategies across a portfolio of high-profile global clients, while managing and developing a talented team of specialists. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping client strategy, driving innovation, and delivering exceptional campaign performance across multiple social platforms.

If you're a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills and a passion for digital media, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

The Role

As a Paid Social Account Director, you'll oversee the strategic direction and delivery of Paid Social activity across a diverse client portfolio. Acting as a senior client partner, you'll build long-term relationships, identify growth opportunities and ensure campaigns consistently exceed expectations.

Working closely with planning, activation, analytics and client leadership teams, you'll champion innovative thinking and deliver integrated solutions that drive measurable business results.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading Paid Social strategy across a portfolio of major national and global brands.

• Acting as the senior day-to-day client contact, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders.

• Overseeing campaign planning, activation, optimisation and performance across platforms including Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Snapchat.

• Driving innovation by identifying new opportunities, testing emerging products and implementing best practice.

• Leading, mentoring and developing a team of Paid Social specialists, supporting their growth and progression.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver fully integrated media campaigns.

• Presenting strategic recommendations, campaign performance and future opportunities to senior clients with confidence.

• Supporting new business pitches and contributing to the continued growth of the Paid Social offering.

About You

You'll be an experienced Paid Social professional with a proven track record of leading successful campaigns and managing client relationships within an agency environment.

You'll also bring:

• Extensive experience managing Paid Social campaigns across multiple platforms.

• Strong strategic thinking with a commercial mindset.

• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.

• Confidence presenting to senior stakeholders and influencing client decisions.

• Excellent knowledge of campaign optimisation, measurement frameworks and performance analysis.

• The ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

• A passion for staying ahead of industry trends and platform developments.

Sphere Digital Recruitment currently have a variety of job opportunities across digital so feel free to get in touch with us to find out how we can help you. Please take a look at our website.

Sphere is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications regardless of ethnic origin, race, religious beliefs, age, disability, gender or sexual orientation, and any other protected status as required by applicable law.

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