Associate Director of Paid Media (Search & Social)
LaSalle Network has partnered with a Digital Marketing Agency in their search for an Associate Director of Paid Media (Search & Social), here in downtown Chicago.
We are seeking a strategic and client-facing Associate Director of Paid Media to lead performance-driven campaigns across Google and Meta platforms. This role is ideal for a subject matter expert who can both execute and confidently advise clients, guiding paid media strategy and driving measurable business results. What You’ll Do:
- Paid Media Strategy: Develop and lead full-funnel paid media strategies across Google Ads (Search, Display, YouTube) and Meta (Facebook, Instagram) aligned to client goals
- Client Leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor to clients—presenting strategies, performance insights, and recommendations with confidence and clarity
- Campaign Oversight: Guide the execution, optimization, and scaling of paid search and paid social campaigns, ensuring best practices are followed
- Budget Ownership: Manage and allocate budgets to maximize efficiency, ROAS, and overall performance
- Performance Optimization: Analyze KPIs (CPA, ROAS, CTR, CVR) and drive continuous improvement through testing and optimization
- Audience Strategy: Build and refine audience segments using first-party data, lookalikes, and platform targeting capabilities
- Testing & Innovation: Lead A/B testing across creative, targeting, and bidding strategies to improve performance
- Team Leadership: Mentor junior team members and collaborate cross-functionally with creative, analytics, and account teams
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in paid search (Google Ads) and paid social (Meta Ads)
- Deep platform expertise with the ability to speak confidently to strategy, execution, and performance
- Proven experience presenting to clients and translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations
- Strong track record of optimizing campaigns to hit CPA/ROAS goals
- Experience with analytics tools (Google Analytics, platform reporting, etc.)
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experience managing or mentoring team members
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