Associate Director, Paid Social

Monks is seeking an Associate Director of Paid Social who is passionate about performance marketing, leadership, and driving growth for top advertisers across major paid social platforms. This role is ideal for a data-driven strategist with a people-first mindset, eager to lead teams and deliver exceptional client results in a high-performance digital agency.

About the Role

As an Associate Director, Paid Social, you will drive performance, guide account teams, and orchestrate growth for top advertisers across platforms like Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest. You’ll lead strategy, optimize ad spend, and foster client relationships while developing talent and ensuring strong ROI. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, balances big-picture thinking with hands-on execution, and is committed to both client success and team growth.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the paid social lead for top clients, directing strategy and optimizing performance across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest, and other platforms.
• Guide overall account strategy, forecasting, and planning for performance ecommerce, retail, and B2B lead generation clients with ad spends ranging from $200K–$100MM/month.
• Drive creative strategy in collaboration with creative teams to tailor messaging and iterate based on performance.
• Generate strong revenue growth through client renewals and retention.
• Participate in onboardings, QBRs, renewal calls, and other key client communications.
• Act as a senior sponsor for client accounts, building relationships with decision-makers and ensuring an exceptional client experience.
• Manage and train a small team of Account Managers in advanced paid social advertising, multi-channel digital marketing strategy, and client management (projections, analytics, reporting).
• Focus on personnel development through ongoing feedback, performance reviews, and weekly 1:1s.
• Motivate and guide your team to hit quarterly account growth and retention targets.

Requirements

• 5+ years of paid social client management experience.
• 1+ year in a supervisory role directly overseeing digital marketing professionals.
• Meta and LinkedIn experience is required; Pinterest, Snapchat, or TikTok experience is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills, including proficiency in Google Analytics, Meta Business Manager, Excel, and Google Sheets.
• Exceptional communication skills, particularly when presenting digital marketing strategy to C-suite and executive audiences.
• Natural leadership ability with a focus on fostering success in others.
• Comfortable balancing hands-on execution with strategic oversight.
• Driven, innovative, and proactive mindset.
• 4-year college degree or equivalent work experience.

Nice-to-Haves

• Directly managed paid social budgets of $100K+/month in ad spend.
• Exposure to paid search, display, and remarketing efforts.
• Experience optimizing toward back-end CRM metrics (e.g., Salesforce).

Benefits

• Excellent, full-coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays.
• 401k with company contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being.
• Career growth opportunities in a disruptor space and entrepreneurial environment.
• Globally diverse and inclusive culture with employee resource groups (e.g., S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks).
• Commitment to DEI and sustainable growth (Monks is a signatory of The Climate Pledge).

Pay

Salary Range: $95,000—$105,000 USD.

Schedule

This role is subject to Monks’ Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week, as outlined in the company’s then-current RTO policy.

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. Combining specialized expertise with an extraordinary range of marketing and technology services, Monks redefines how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. The company delivers high-impact creative and digital solutions to solve critical business challenges, helping brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks has earned industry recognition, including being named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranking among Cannes Lions’ Top 10 Creative Companies (2022–25), and being the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020–24). The company was also named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, and received Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both organizational and product categories. Monks holds a record-breaking number of FWAs and is a trusted partner to innovators in tech, earning titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025) and runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024).