SVP, Social Measurement

About the role

The SVP, Social Measurement is an innovative role that combines deep social experience and analytics rigor. This role is an entrepreneurial opportunity to help define analytics for the revival of the 360i agency brand.

This role will focus on creating best practices for social analytics, setting the agency outlook on social measurement, and honing our approach to connecting paid, organic, creator, and commerce measurement across all social platforms. This role will partner with internal and external stakeholders to give input on product creation, beta and alpha opportunities, and thought leadership.

This role will uniquely sit between Marketing Effectiveness and Social teams, reporting into Marketing Effectiveness leadership with a dotted line into the head of Next Gen Social.

Job Responsibilities

• Works closely with Social leadership and Marketing Effectiveness to create a simplified scalable and repeatable measurement approach for all social channels
• Consult with client teams on social measurement best practices, test design, and partner capabilities
• Partner with external social partners to bring alpha and beta opportunities to client teams
• Collaborate with capability and partnership leadership to identify and evaluate social and creator measurement solutions to enable Next Gen Social
• Ensure Social and Marketing Effectiveness teams are aware of social partner measurement changes and potential implications
• Identifies and develops product specific analytics offerings for specific clients
• Authors white papers, POVs, other industry thought capital; attends/speaks at conferences
• Evaluates and partners with external vendors and technologies as appropriate
• Evaluates prospective technologies and companies for partnership or corporate acquisition
• Advises the agency about key industry trends and innovations
• Exhibits strong analytical, project management, storytelling and communication skills
• Partners with new business to identify opportunities for growth and development and enable business growth and development or existing clients
• Responsible for recruiting management level roles within the group and for developing managers
• Sets vision/strategy and facilitates team operations to deliver quality and timely deliverables
• Leads (and is the voice of) local/national department initiatives, elevating the work, providing training, knowledge sharing, and best practices
• Empowers direct reports to own their client, relationships, and projects
• Manages performance and career growth of direct reports

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Data Science or related quantitative field
• Master's degree preferred
• 15+ years in a quantitative business environment
• 8+ years in marketing analytics with knowledge of social and the media planning process
• Experience with all social platforms and their attribution approaches (Meta, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, Pinterest, and Snap)
• Exposure to mobile, social, and tablet measurement approaches as well as understanding the role of attribution and paths to conversion
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex findings in simple terms
• Strong organizational skills, political instincts, and proven-leadership ability
• Experience in data visualization (Excel, Tableau, Power BI, Datorama)
• Demonstrates understanding of media planning and buying with a focus on media measurement and digital tracking including limitations and advantages
• Advanced in SQL, Python, or R
• Advanced media measurement capabilities (i.e.MMM, MTA), and planning A/B and Match Market testing

Additional information

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we're connected. Our hybrid way of working combines remote flexibility with regular in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Many of our employees who live within commuting distance (90 minutes) from one of our Headquarter or Hub Offices (New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles) are required to work in the office 2-3 days per week including one Team Day.

The minimum number of days may vary by office and role. Dentsu may designate other HQ or Hub offices at any time. Those who do not live near an office may be designated as a remote employee, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect you to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office from time to time.

Pay and benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $163,000 -$280,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation.

Benefits available with this position include

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.

• Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies.
• To begin the application process, please click on the "Apply" button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.

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• Location: New York - 150 E 42nd
• Brand: Dentsu Media
• Time Type: Full time
• Contract Type: Permanent

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