What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director Social, Performance Marketing position at Empower Media?
Director - Social, Performance Marketing
DEPARTMENT: Investment - Performance Marketing
REPORTS TO: VP, Performance Marketing
Location: Chicago, Denver or Austin
About Empower Media
Empower is America’s largest woman-owned media agency. We develop proactive partnerships with our clients, leaning into the mantra of "What If". We challenge the status quo and uncover incremental sources of growth through proprietary technology. We put brands in attention-grabbing environments, capturing consumers hearts, minds and wallets. All in service of delivering results today and creating deeper longer-term consumer connections which drives our clients' business. We don’t believe winning today is enough. We believe in owning tomorrow, achieved by a mindset of Grow Fearlessly.
PURPOSE: Responsibility and accountability in supporting paid social performance marketing efforts of the agency’s clients, report out on campaign findings and opportunities, help to optimize campaigns and drive departmental campaign initiatives while leading and coaching broader social team.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- In charge of development and implementation of client strategic social initiatives
- Work across paid social marketing management platforms
- Specifically: Meta Business, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, and others
- Plan and build social strategic initiatives within above platforms
- Verify and execute campaigns (including paid social accounts, analytics, etc.)
- Monitor campaigns and ensure metrics are tracking properly, including pacing and budget adjustments
- Communicate out on results and recommendations across teams to improve campaigns
- Directly communicate with clients on campaign performance, opportunities, and strategic initiatives
- Work with internal team to optimize budgets and maximize digital campaign effectiveness through A-B testing, innovative executions, etc.
- Developing and building presentation decks for client meetings
- Work with vendor partners (Meta, Snapchat, TikTok, etc.) to optimize campaigns and bring forward best-in-class campaign solutions
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- 6 years of social campaign stewardship necessary
- Ability and comfort to effectively present information in a one-on-one and/or group setting within the organization
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strategic thinking skills
- Ability to read, comprehend and write instructions, correspondence, and memos.
- Experience managing a team
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:
- Meeting client goals and KPIs through digital performance campaigns
- Optimizing campaigns and translating results across internal and external clients
- Delivering strategic decks outlining digital recommendations and expected results
- Digital campaign quality & delivery
- Peer/staff advocacy and education