Account Director, Social

Responsibilities

Our talent team is representing a confidential media agency seeking an Account Director, Social to lead paid social campaign delivery for key client accounts in Manchester. In this role, you will provide strategic leadership for paid social campaigns, ensuring optimal performance across all major social platforms.

You will line manage a team of paid social specialists, providing coaching, mentorship, and support for their development and career progression. You'll oversee the production of comprehensive paid social media plans aligned with client objectives and KPIs, and ensure end-to-end campaign setup across all relevant social platforms.

Your responsibilities include conducting regular quality assurance checks, monitoring campaign performance, troubleshooting, and optimizing to improve results. You'll ensure all performance commentary delivers valuable insight and recommendations, identifying trends and recommending on-platform actions. Leading client calls and presentations will be a core part of your role, along with delivering end-of-campaign reporting and quarterly reviews.

You will act as a key social point-of-contact for clients, maintaining their confidence in the team's output. Managing internal and external stakeholders—including key media partners like Meta, Twitter, Snap, TikTok, and Pinterest—to deliver multiple projects simultaneously is essential.

Additionally, you'll identify opportunities to test and innovate in paid social, developing initiatives to evolve standards and efficiency across the wider team. You'll develop tailored testing and learning agendas for clients that drive clear and actionable insight on each social platform.

What We're Looking For

• Deep paid social expertise: Extensive experience setting up and optimizing paid social campaigns across key platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snap, and TikTok. Training certifications such as Meta Blueprint are a plus.
• Strategic and analytical acumen: Experience planning large-scale paid social campaigns for both brand and direct-response objectives. Strong analytical skills with the ability to compile detailed, insightful reports, identify trends, and recommend actions.
• Leadership and people management: Proven experience managing a team of social specialists, preferably in an agency environment. This includes workload management, training, mentoring, line management, and leading recruitment.
• Client and stakeholder management: Proven track record of working with clients and external stakeholders, forming strong relationships, and comfortably presenting to clients and leading calls.
• Communication and influence: Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate campaign rationale and insights effectively to people from diverse backgrounds.
• Integrated perspective: Strong understanding of how paid social activity complements and enhances the wider marketing mix and integrates with broader digital and communications strategies.
• Mindset: Collaborative, friendly, can-do attitude. Passionate about paid social and eager to test and innovate.

This is a UK-based role requiring the right to work in the United Kingdom. The position follows a hybrid approach with teams in the office around four days per week in Manchester.

How We Work with You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and ensure alignment with the role requirements. Once we confirm you're a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration.

Throughout the process, we act as your advocate and main point of contact. Please do not contact the client directly, as all communication should flow through our team at Get A Job.ai to ensure a smooth and professional process for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive hiring practices and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.