Vice President, Management

Company description

Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT – Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions – to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention, to care more about our clients’ brands, and to buy more products and services from them. Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world’s best and most beloved brands and companies.

We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first‑look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers. With a bottom‑up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry.

And by applying a whole‑person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today’s challenges, and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come. Because we know that heat arises at the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights, content and creative production, communications and strategy, finance and marketing, and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.

The Vice President, Paid Social will have responsibility for the growth, management, retention, and happiness of a portfolio of key accounts. The ideal candidate will have shown experience leading clients strategically and tactically in social marketing. They will be responsible for a team in the conception and delivery of innovative, business‑building, social marketing solutions to include paid optimization, evolving platforms, and sophisticated analytics.

The Vice President will also provide engagement leadership, develop senior level client relationships, and will serve as an authority and trusted advisor to assigned clients. Confirmed account management, leadership, and experience in an agency environment are important.

• Overall control of workflow and assigned responsibilities within their group. They will coordinate the progress of all projects and offer assistance, as vital, to ensure the timely completion of projects.
• Ensure projects are produced completely, correctly, and efficiently.
• Set strategic principles for client social initiatives based on objectives.
• Develop action plans for achieving and tracking campaign success including defining important measures and processes for evaluation and improvement.
• Evaluate and recommend full spectrum of social alliances, including all appropriate partners, platforms, bid and campaign management tools.
• Work with planning teams, digital planning, and outside ad agencies to ensure paid social efforts complement all client marketing activity.
• Keep clients and agency counterparts informed on latest developments in the industry.
• Grow agency paid social business through new business wins and organic client growth.
• Involved in client and inter‑agency education of paid social and will be responsible for developing intellectual capital, including standard processes, case studies, and official agency points‑of‑view.
• This individual is frequently involved in client and inter‑agency education of social, and will be responsible for developing intellectual capital, including standard processes, case studies, and official agency points‑of‑view.

• Stimulate team productivity and growth.
• Establish and develop a workplace culture that inspires talent.
• Allocate assignments to harness each person’s individual skills, as well as motivating their interests and challenging their minds.
• Encourage thorough evaluation of paid social marketing strategies, finding opportunity for competitive advantage.
• Develop careers by providing ongoing feedback and conducting employee evaluations.
• Recruiting and retain top talent,…