Paid Media Specialist

Job Description

Socialize is looking for an aspiring digital marketer with experience in paid social, looking to advance their knowledge, expertise and career in paid media. This is a vital role in a growing team that will lead a portfolio of clients and drive impact.

As part of the paid media team at Socialize | We Are Social Dubai, you will get exposure to global clients, work with a diverse global team, and gain experience across various industries and types of campaigns.

Key responsibilities include:

• Liaising with the account management team to understand the paid media brief, recommend an approach, and define benchmarks with researched rationale and best-practice suggestions.
• Creating media plans for clients and managing against forecasts.
• Implementing approved media plans and managing campaigns end-to-end, including setup, optimization and reporting.
• Internal tracking/reporting to the agency for all clients and media budgets within your remit.
• Developing insight-driven reports using a combination of tools and techniques.
• Analyze and make recommendations to Creative teams and strategic recommendations for clients to improve performance across a range of metrics.
• Partner with internal departments to ensure an integrated approach to creative & paid media across multiple audiences and platforms.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience managing paid social campaigns is a must—bonus points for experience with campaigns that have overperformed AND campaigns that have underperformed.
• Accountability for your clients, campaigns and budgets.
• Attention to detail and commitment to error-free execution.
• Collaborative mentality, able to both provide support and ask for it.
• An interest in social media and paid media and a desire to learn about where the industry is headed (with opinions of your own).

About Socialize:

We pay a lot of attention to building our culture and are looking for people who will add value to Socialize. We’re interested in your passion projects, in what makes you tick, and in what helps you get out of bed in the morning. We’re looking for where you fit within our value framework: The Code: of working better together, focus and going beyond the expected.

At Socialize, we’ll give you the opportunity to work within a fast-paced, evolving team. You’ll be working across departments with new and existing clients. You’ll be empowered to take on the responsibility to grow your role and build an enviable client portfolio. If you like working holistically in a creative-led agency, working closely with the creative, client-serving and strategy teams to create high-impact campaigns, we might just be the place for you