CrawlJobs Logo

Associate Director, Social Media Strategy

United States, New York 125000.00 - 140000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 31, 2026
Apply Position
Job Link Share

Job Description

The Associate Director, Social Media Strategy will be a leader in social media engagements, delivering high quality work across our portfolio of health and life sciences clients while facilitating the growth of the department. You will lead clients and teams through strategic social media initiatives while providing expert insight that can be used in engagement and omnichannel strategy. You'll spearhead innovation by exploring new approaches and services to enhance the agency's offerings. This is a role for a true T-shaped social media marketer who is well-versed in DTC/HCP social media while expressing an active interest in expanding skills across engagement strategy, omnichannel, data analytics, creative development and account management. You will join an agile team, looking for the next big way to merge data and activation across our portfolio of clients. You will report to the Vice President of Social & Linguistics Strategy and this role can be remote or hybrid depending on location.

Job Responsibility

  • Lead in creating top-notch social strategies and content plans, ensuring feedback, strategic consultation and social media management is done to a high level
  • Guide clients and teams on social media strategies and issues, providing insights before implementation
  • Be the go-to social media subject matter expert, providing insight around platform capabilities, specifications and functionalities for clients and external audiences
  • Inform and develop new approaches, ideas, and services to expand the agency's social media and strategy capabilities
  • Lead teams through social listening
  • Aid in omnichannel and engagement strategy initiatives, promoting social media's alignment into client's omnichannel mix
  • Counsel clients and teams on best practices for social media execution, showcasing deep knowledge of platform functionalities, formats, trends, and both organic and paid content across major social channels like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, and YouTube
  • Stay up to date with latest digital marketing trends and technologies to maintain a competitive edge

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in health, biotech, or pharmaceuticals
  • Experience developing and presenting strategic social media plans across various channels, including Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest, with a strong understanding of both organic and paid content
  • Experience growing social media business with existing clients and participating in new business pitches
  • Experience mentoring junior team members
  • In-depth knowledge of FDA and FTC regulations for social media in the biotech and pharma industries
  • Experience in client service, in an agency environment, with experience collaborating within integrated teams
  • Skill with social monitoring and measurement tools, with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Bachelor's degree in life sciences, marketing, or communications

What we offer

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • 401(k)
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible time off

Looking for more opportunities?

Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Similar Jobs for

Associate Director, Social Media Strategy

8 matching positions

Associate Strategy Director

We’re hiring for an Associate Strategy Director - a strategic leader with a trac...
Location
Location
United Kingdom , London
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
ladbiblegroup.com Logo
LADbible Group
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Senior strategy experience gained at a creative or social agency, or social publisher
  • Experience delivering annual/multi-year strategy, and building trust and authority with clients
  • A strong perspective on how brands grow through cultural relevance
  • Ability to work across and manage multiple briefs simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, whilst being able to oversee the development of work within the Strategy team
  • Adept at building cross-department senior relationships and collaborating to achieve shared goals
  • Comfortable analyzing and understanding a variety of quant and qual datasets, including briefing data teams to coordinate bespoke reports
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Develop world-class strategy that converts high-value pitches and powers standout, effective, creative work
  • Build strong relationships with brand direct clients, earning authority and trust that drives further commercial success
  • As a partner to the creative team, contribute to idea generation and play a key role in ideation sessions
  • Work closely with LADbible Group’s Data, Intelligence & Planning team to make sure all creative is underpinned with robust data and insight
  • Support the Director of Strategy in managing team resourcing and output, setting the example for what excellence looks like
  • Identify proactive client development opportunities and work with the Client Solutions team to bring these to fruition
  • Build strong working relationships with LADbible Group’s leadership team to encourage close collaboration with creative and project management teams
Read More
Arrow Right

Associate Director, Digital Media Strategy

The Associate Director, Digital Media Strategy must have demonstrated expertise ...
Location
Location
United States
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
zionandzion.com Logo
Zion & Zion
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience at a media planning & buying agency experience a must
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business or Communications (Marketing, Advertising, Finance, Business Administration, or similar)
  • Meticulous and detail-oriented
  • Proven track record and ability to mentor junior members of a team to teach and inform digital media best practices
  • Basic knowledge of traditional media
  • be able to speak strategically about how digital and traditional media work together
  • Extensive experience planning and buying digital media: Paid Social, Paid Search, and programmatic experience is required
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Experience presenting to client executives and upper management
  • Must be a proactive team player willing to roll your sleeves up and help the team as needed
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Act as both an internal and client-facing subject matter expert for digital media strategy
  • Provide both internal and external (client facing) POV on the future state of digital media, as it related to changes in the industry
  • Communicate when and why to use different targeting methodologies (behavioral, contextual, demographic, lookalike, cross-device, retargeting) and speak on each to educate clients
  • Know when and why to use different digital media channels (based on client business objectives and KPIs)
  • Utilize a data-driven approach to budget allocation decision making
  • Perform hands-on optimization of digital campaigns and delegate digital campaign optimization efforts to team members when necessary
  • Put together clear and concise presentations
  • Analyze the meaning behind data and communicate key findings and highlights to clients
  • Pull media pacing reports and analyze against KPIs
  • Contribute to thought leadership content around digital media strategy (blogs, articles, whitepapers)
Read More
Arrow Right

Associate Director, Digital Strategy

The Associate Director, Digital Strategy must have demonstrated expertise across...
Location
Location
United States
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
zionandzion.com Logo
Zion & Zion
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience at a media planning & buying agency experience a must
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business or Communications (Marketing, Advertising, Finance, Business Administration, or similar)
  • Meticulous and detail-oriented
  • Proven track record and ability to mentor junior members of a team to teach and inform digital media best practices
  • Basic knowledge of traditional media
  • be able to speak strategically about how digital and traditional media work together
  • Extensive experience planning and buying digital media: Paid Social, Paid Search, and programmatic experience is required
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Experience presenting to client executives and upper management
  • Must be a proactive team player willing to roll your sleeves up and help the team as needed
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Act as both an internal and client-facing subject matter expert for digital media strategy
  • Provide both internal and external (client facing) POV on the future state of digital media, as it related to changes in the industry
  • Communicate when and why to use different targeting methodologies (behavioral, contextual, demographic, lookalike, cross-device, retargeting) and speak on each to educate clients
  • Know when and why to use different digital media channels (based on client business objectives and KPIs)
  • Utilize a data-driven approach to budget allocation decision making
  • Perform hands-on optimization of digital campaigns and delegate digital campaign optimization efforts to team members when necessary
  • Put together clear and concise presentations
  • Analyze the meaning behind data and communicate key findings and highlights to clients
  • Pull media pacing reports and analyze against KPIs
  • Contribute to thought leadership content around digital media strategy (blogs, articles, whitepapers)
Read More
Arrow Right

Associate Director - Paid Social

This position sits in our Creative & Media craft. We combine data, technology, c...
Location
Location
United Kingdom , Manchester
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
basicagency.com Logo
BASIC/DEPT®
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Extensive experience in media roles servicing clients, preferably in an agency environment
  • Experience working in a cross-functional management team
  • Experience managing large client and agency teams
  • Experience managing complex campaigns across creative, media and consultancy
  • Inspiring and able to create a proactive and energised team culture
  • Strong client relationship management skills, including experience working directly with director and C-level clients on strategy development
  • A solid understanding of the industry and changing client needs
  • Excellent project management skills, able to find the most efficient ways of working
  • Brilliant written and verbal English communication skills
  • Advanced problem-solving skills
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Facilitate and oversee the development and delivery of paid media campaigns
  • Provide senior level guidance on client media strategy and execution within the media planning & buyers team
  • Work collaboratively with the Head of Media Strategy / Lead strategist on the account
  • Lead long term relationships with C-Level stakeholders for a key client
  • Support Client Business Directors and Head of Media Strategy to develop annual strategies for the existing client
  • Support with driving growth, uncovering upsell and cross sell of services within the client
  • Work in partnership with Business Directors and Account Heads to manage the current client relationship
  • Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of wider commercial context beyond profitability on projects
  • Support accounts team on improving processes and systems with Finance and Operations to maintain client profitability at all times
  • Oversee revenue forecasting and ensure appropriate trackers are up to date across the teams
What we offer
What we offer
  • A flexible, hybrid working policy
  • The choice of medical healthcare providers (Bupa or Medicash)
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off each year
  • Company pension scheme
  • EAP scheme
  • Ride to work scheme
  • Enhanced family friendly policies
  • Buddy Program
  • Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Associate Director, PR/Social Media

We’re looking for an exceptional individual. If it’s you, you’ll be a key part o...
Location
Location
United States
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
zionandzion.com Logo
Zion & Zion
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 7+ years of public relations experience
  • 5+ years of social media experience
  • 4 years’ experience in an agency setting
  • A bachelor’s in public relations, marketing, business or a related discipline (MBA is a plus but not required)
  • A strong personality that will be immediately perceived by clients as providing leadership
  • Proven ability to garner national media attention for clients
  • Ability to foresee challenges/issues with client accounts before they happen and propose solutions
  • Proven ability to build relationships with internal account team members to create a productive, collaborative work environment
  • A strong work ethic and whatever it takes to get the job done attitude
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Manage several complex, large client public relations or social media accounts in varying industries
  • Lead the development of public relations and/or social media strategies
  • Develop client messaging, story angles and communication plans, including crisis communications
  • Garner national, regional, and local media attention for your clients
  • Strengthen and expand working and personal relationships with client POCs and their management
  • Foresee client problems before they happen and provide insights on how to head them off
  • Ensure senior management is up-to-date on account activity, opportunities, and challenges
  • Interact with clients at the senior level by building trust and displaying an expert ability to have “tough” conversations
  • Ensure clients are receiving all agreed upon services on time and within budget
  • Expertly present complex ideas and concepts to clients in formal and informal settings
Read More
Arrow Right

Associate Director, Media Planning & Buying

Execute innovative marketing strategy through a diverse channel mix, for leading...
Location
Location
United Kingdom , London
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
bluestate.co Logo
Blue State
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 6-8 years experience in a hands-on paid media planning and buying role using a mix of digital channels (Social, Search, Display, Video, Audio, etc)
  • Demonstrated experience translating client business goals into cohesive media strategies and specific KPIs, and a record executing campaigns that delivered on those goals
  • Experience working with non-profits, with fundraising and/or income objectives within paid media campaigns
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple clients and projects on time, within budget, and meet performance goals
  • High proficiency with digital advertising platforms — demonstrated mastery of paid social, paid search, and/or programmatic trading — as well as Google Analytics and other measurement platforms
  • Exceptional attention to detail, especially with regards to campaign setup and trafficking, QA, and reporting
  • Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you
  • A shared passion and curiosity for delivering change, including comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Translate clients’ strategic visions into media objectives and KPIs to accomplish a wide range of client objectives including direct response (lead gen and fundraising), awareness, persuasion, and advocacy
  • Analyse ongoing and historical performance data to identify opportunities for improvement, make strategic recommendations, and generate reporting and insights to drive optimisation
  • Have a strong POV on measurement, attribution, and conversion tracking, and apply that knowledge to strategic recommendations and ongoing campaign management
  • Participate in (and frequently lead) client-facing interactions — be the subject-matter expert for the platforms you manage
  • Plan, build, manage, and optimise media campaigns across multiple platforms, and oversee others in the team across multiple accounts to ensure media buying is efficient, effective and compliant
  • Work collaboratively with other internal or external teams, including media planners, strategists, account directors, designers, and analysts, to produce campaigns, creative ideas, audience and target recommendations, and experimental designs
  • Be an internal and external thought leader and help keep us up to date with the latest digital media trends by maintaining relationships with media partners, and engaging in media R&D projects, writing blog posts, and participating on panels
What we offer
What we offer
  • Unlimited time off (inclusive of sick, personal and vacation days)
  • $1,250 annual in professional development funds (local equivalent)
  • Fully subsidised health and dental insurance for employees (subject to tax)
  • Generous pension match via salary sacrifice
  • Generous paid holiday schedule
  • Parental leave policy for up to 32.5 week of coverage at full pay, inclusive of all genders and supporting a range of family structures
  • Group Income Protection (GIP)
  • Group Life Assurance (GLA)
  • Optional holiday travel insurance
  • Pre-tax season ticket loans
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Group Director, Care + Engagement

The Group Director, Care + Engagement is responsible for setting the vision, sta...
Location
Location
Salary
Salary:
140000.00 - 159000.00 USD / Year
thesociallights.com Logo
The Social Lights
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of experience, preferably in an agency setting
  • 6+ years of social media management experience
  • Experience in social media is required
  • Excellent time management, organization, and prioritization skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • communication, relationship building and conflict resolution
  • Able to maintain confidentiality with business relations, personnel matters, and proprietary matters
  • Ability to manage up, down and laterally to achieve objectives
  • Familiarity with Asana, Slack, Box and the Google suite of tools
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Own client social media approach
  • Lead the development and evolution of the client’s social media approach, including tools, processes, team structure, and strategic vision
  • Oversee social media work across accounts
  • Ensure that social teams are delivering high-quality, consistent work across all client accounts by providing oversight, direction, and hands-on support as needed to maintain excellence and effectiveness
  • Drive operational excellence with AI-enabled solutions
  • Identify and implement scalable systems and AI tools for scheduling, publishing, moderation, measurement, and reporting to help teams operate efficiently and stay ahead of emerging capabilities
  • Lead platform and partner relationships
  • Stay at the forefront of social platform trends, features, and updates while managing relationships with key platform partners and tools vendors
  • Establish and enforce discipline best practices
  • Define and maintain high standards for content planning, publishing cadence, engagement tactics, and community management across the agency
What we offer
What we offer
  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Voluntary Vision Insurance
  • HSA with Company Contribution
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • 401k + Company Match
  • Generous PTO Policy
  • Cell Phone Stipend
  • Paid Parking (local)
  • Technology Enablement + AI Tools
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Social Media Art Director

Content is the heart of everything we do. We have revolutionized the agency mode...
Location
Location
United States , Fort Worth
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
agencyhabitat.com Logo
Agency Habitat
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • An online portfolio showcasing your creative work
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite is mandatory
  • Ability to work collaboratively with other multi-disciplinary creatives and content creators
  • Proficiency in social media (Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter) tools and techniques
  • Knowledge of scheduling and management of organic social feeds
  • Experience with various ad managers across social platforms
  • Ability to learn the vernacular of different clients/industries and the communities of their customers
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Thorough, detail-oriented and organized
  • Ability to identify and report trends/insights to your manager based on raw in-platform data
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Own overall social strategy for assigned clients
  • Develop monthly content plans and shot lists
  • Act as the expert and community manager of multiple client social media accounts, engaging with potential customers and building relationships with existing ones
  • Lead social-focused client communications and attend client meetings (internal and external)
  • Respond to comments and customer queries across social media channels in a timely manner
  • Schedule organic content across multiple agency and client social media channels
  • Develop recommendations for the boosted strategy in collaboration with the wider strategic team
  • Partner with the wider strategic team to build audiences for any paid social efforts
  • Monitor social media trends, tools and applications in order to recommend alternative ways to leverage social media activity
  • Identify and coordinate with influencers for new and ongoing campaigns and activations
What we offer
What we offer
  • competitive salary with potential bonus opportunities based on company and individual performance
  • benefits
  • 401(k)
  • ample paid time off
  • a festive holiday schedule
  • three coffee makers
  • an arcade
  • full bar
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right