Senior Manager, Paid Social
T-Mobile · Herndon, VA · 1 mo ago
ManagementFull-time
Core Responsibilities
- Own enterprise paid social strategy across brand and performance objectives supporting the portfolio of T-Mobile brands and products.
- Optimize full-funnel frameworks spanning awareness, acquisition, and lifecycle marketing.
- Align investment strategy with MMM insights, incrementality testing, and enterprise growth priorities.
- Continuously pressure-test channel allocation against broader media mix effectiveness.
- Drive performance against CPA, ROAS, contribution margin, and incremental lift targets.
- Advance structured testing roadmaps across:
- Creative velocity and fatigue mitigation
- Audience expansion and signal enrichment
- Automation and bidding innovation
- Incrementality and lift measurement
- Translate complex attribution and MMM outputs into actionable channel decisions.
- Oversee evolution of first-party data integration, conversion APIs, server-side tagging, and signal resilience strategies.
- Leverage predictive modeling and automation to enhance performance efficiency.
- Anticipate privacy shifts and platform changes, proactively adapting strategy.
- Maintain disciplined budget management across significant paid social investment.
- Implement scalable reporting frameworks and performance forecasting.
- Ensure pacing, investment allocation, and testing decisions are data-driven and financially accountable.
- Drive efficiency improvements without compromising growth.
- Leverage sophisticated database tools to effectively manage budget data and reporting workflows.
- Partner with Brand, Creative, Analytics, Finance, Organic Social, and Product to align creative development, measurement frameworks, and growth strategy.
- Influence upstream creative strategy with platform-native insights and performance data.
- Present performance narratives, risks, and investment opportunities to VP+ leadership.
- Maintain senior-level platform relationships and represent T-Mobile in strategic partner engagements.
- Collaborate with agency partners for Executive Social and any staff augmentation needs.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of paid social experience, including leadership within a scaled in-house or enterprise environment.
- Bachelor's Degree and 7 years of related work experience OR a combination of education and experience deemed equivalent.
- Proven track record managing substantial paid social budgets with demonstrated incremental impact.
- Deep expertise across Meta, TikTok, Snap, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms.
- Strong command of incrementality testing, MMM alignment, and attribution frameworks.
- Advanced knowledge of signal strategy, automation, and AI-driven optimization.
- Financial fluency with large-scale media investment accountability.
- Executive presence and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience operating within a mature, performance-driven media organization preferred.
- At least 18 years of age