Specialist, Paid Social (Kia Q3 2026)

The Social Specialist is a position where you will focus on developing a deep understanding of, and expertise in Social Media - specifically paid media across Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube and Search. The Specialist will assist the larger team to execute paid media tactics, optimize campaigns and manage budgets. They will work closely with the Director to analyze performance and extrapolate findings to help make media recommendations to share both internally and with the client.Social media is a 24-hour, 7-day a week medium so the work is fast-paced and often ad hoc. The ability to work as part of a team in such an environment is crucial, as is a sense of innate curiosity, attention to detail and a self-motivated work ethic. The Specialist is the subject matter expert and will participate in strategic conversations with various teams across agency, client and partner teams including Strategy, Digital Investment, Analytics, Programmatic and Linear (TV/OTT).

Your ability to identify trends, stay abreast of industry advancements and engage with new partners and vendors to seek out innovation and opportunity is key to your success in this role.

Your day-to-day work will include the development of soft skills such as email correspondence, Power Point / Excel and presentation skills, client management, team management and partner relationship management.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day campaign performance and analysis working directly with the team's Media Director
• Perform research to understand audiences and their behaviors
• Use data and in-campaign trends to identify opportunities for expanding or optimizing campaigns
• Evaluate creative ads for platform specifications and advise client-lead creative team on best practices
• Accurately traffic, upload, and QA ads, targeting parameters and landing page URLs
• Perform account diagnostic checks, inclusive of providing daily pacing updates
• Review & present findings internally to build recommendations in an on-going capacity
• Monitor campaigns to ensure proper pacing, avoid under- or over-spend, traffic abnormalities, and additional opportunities
• Stay on top of the latest trends in tools, technology, Ad Products and more broadly social media platforms
• Through research, assist in the development of Audience worksheets and help organize into a cohesive strategic campaign to then present/review with clients for approval
• Based on client-goals, identify audience parameters, key ad units, KPIs, bid and objective types, budget allocations and other campaign controls to ensure all campaigns perform according to the brief and delivers on the measurement plan

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Preferred
• 1-2 years of experience working in paid social media
• Proven ability to drive projects from start to finish
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Excellent time management skills and ability to follow through
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Possess a strong and proven ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with flexibility and communicate priorities to Supervisor
• High level proficiency and knowledge of Microsoft Office products as well as planning tools