Specialist, Paid Social (California State Lottery)

About the role

Canvas Worldwide dares to be the challenger the ad industry needs. Recognized as one of Ad Age's "Best Places to Work" for three consecutive years, Canvas Worldwide is an independent media agency committed to providing creative solutions for brands that challenge the status quo. Our clients include Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, MGM, Zillow, and McDonald’s.

The Specialist, Paid Social is a position where you will focus on developing a deep understanding and expertise in Social Media—specifically paid media across Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, and Search. The Specialist will assist the larger team to execute paid media tactics, optimize campaigns, and manage budgets. Social media is a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week medium, so the work is fast-paced and often ad hoc. The ability to work as part of a team in such an environment is crucial, as is a sense of innate curiosity, attention to detail, and a self-motivated work ethic.

The Specialist is the subject matter expert and will participate in strategic conversations with various teams across agency, client, and partner teams including Strategy, Digital Investment, Analytics, Programmatic, and Linear (TV/OTT). In this role, you will have the opportunity to work across both Search and Paid Social as you complete a predetermined checklist to determine your advanced mastery of each channel. Your ability to identify trends, stay abreast of industry advancements, and engage with new partners and vendors to seek out innovation and opportunity is key to your success.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day campaign performance and analysis working directly with the team's Media Director
• Perform research to understand audiences and their behaviors
• Use data and in-campaign trends to identify opportunities for expanding or optimizing campaigns
• Evaluate creative ads for platform specifications and advise client-lead creative team on best practices
• Accurately traffic, upload, and QA ads, targeting parameters, and landing page URLs
• Perform account diagnostic checks, inclusive of providing daily pacing updates
• Review and present findings internally to build recommendations in an ongoing capacity
• Monitor campaigns to ensure proper pacing, avoid under- or over-spend, traffic abnormalities, and additional opportunities
• Stay on top of the latest trends in tools, technology, Ad Products, and social media platforms
• Through research, assist in the development of Audience worksheets and help organize into a cohesive strategic campaign to present/review with clients for approval
• Based on client goals, identify audience parameters, key ad units, KPIs, bid and objective types, budget allocations, and other campaign controls to ensure all Social & Search campaigns perform according to the brief and deliver on the measurement plan

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (Preferred)
• 1+ years of experience working in PAID social media
• Hands-on experience with top Social Media platforms
• Proven ability to drive projects from start to finish
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Excellent time management skills and ability to follow through
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Possess a strong and proven ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with flexibility and communicate priorities to Supervisor
• High-level proficiency and knowledge of Microsoft Office products as well as planning tools

Pay

Yearly Salary - $70,400. Actual base salary is determined upon factors such as experience, qualifications, training, certifications, and internal equity. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Benefits

• Highly competitive benefits including generous medical, dental, vision, and pet insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Disability and life insurance coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Up to 14 holidays per year
• A “Do Good Day”
• Unlimited PTO
• Employee social and wellness events
• A DEI Council
• Auto purchase rebate program
• Monthly wellness allowance
• In-office amenities such as fresh kombucha and an in-house barista inside our beautiful, new vibrant El Segundo office

Schedule

This is a hybrid role, requiring a minimum of 3 days in-office per week.