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Company Description

Recognized as Social Media/Influencer Agency of the Year, and as the annual partner for Forbes Top Creators List, Influential sits at the center of culture and the creator economy.

Through our platform Captiv8, the industry's #1 ranked influencer marketing platform, we combine deep API integrations, advanced AI, and machine learning with human expertise to connect brands with a network of more than 15 million creators worldwide.

Our work powers award-winning campaigns across Meta, Snap, TikTok, YouTube, and more, partnering with Fortune 500 companies and global organizations to deliver impact across retail foot traffic, in-store sales, online conversions, and TV tune-in.

At Influential, you'll work with a fast-moving, high-performance team solving complex problems and shaping the future of marketing. You'll build, grow, and make an impact alongside top talent, leading brands, and the world's most influential creators.

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Overview

Influential is looking for a Manager, Performance Media, who will be responsible for the strategy, execution, performance, and reporting of paid campaigns across multiple social platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube. Reporting to the Director of Performance Media, this role will assist in the day-to-day stewarding of the media activity on assigned campaigns for our top clients, and help take social media planning to the next level. This role will manage the creation and execution of various media and measurement strategies, including, but not limited to brand awareness, foot traffic, online conversions, offline sales, tune-in, and more.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the account team to build, deploy, track, and optimize paid social campaigns to successfully achieve business results

• Assist with designing A/B testing, brand lift surveys, and other attribution based measurement studies across social media channels to drive business results

• Collaborate with team members to ensure agreed upon pacing and delivery of campaigns, prompt delivery of reports to clients, and accurate/useful performance reports

• Analyze campaign performance and make recommendations based on the analysis

• Develop a strong working relationship with our partners in the media sales community, to assist with the day-to-day needs and account maintenance for campaigns

• Work with our attribution partners to develop media strategies designed at driving key business results including brand awareness, online conversions, offline sales lift, tune-in, etc.

• Develop audience strategy using campaign briefs and target audience research analysis

• Maintain detailed files of all pertinent records (latest media plans, performance reports, etc.) relevant to each campaign

• Maintain awareness of new marketing platforms and techniques, as well as look for opportunities to innovate and develop new media strategies to drive clients' advertising forward

• Reconcile all campaigns to ensure that client receives all planned media and is invoiced/credited properly

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in paid social media

• Demonstrated enthusiasm for influencer marketing / paid social and a strong desire to learn & build knowledge of social media attribution, social analytics, and target audience strategies

• Proactive ability to multitask, strong written and oral communication skills, excellent organizational aptitude, attention to detail, and accuracy when working with numbers

• Proven ability to optimize media spend to drive key business results and manage large social media budgets ($150-$350k/mo)

• Strong working knowledge and a participant in the various social channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and more

• Strong Microsoft Excel experience

Bonus points if:

• Proficient with 3rd party ad-serving, tracking, and analytic systems to be able to accurately input media plan details and launch campaigns

• Experience at a marketing-tech or media start-up

• You're passionate about social media and/or influencer marketing

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Difference" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMTTACompliance@publicis.com.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 Compensation Range: USD $80,000.00 - USD $100,000.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/1/2026.Employment Type: FULL_TIME