Paid Social Media Team Lead

Expertise and Knowledge Sharing

• - Be the agency’s leading expert on paid social, driving thought leadership, innovation, and strategy development.
• - Train and mentor internal teams on emerging trends, platform updates, and best practices across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and other key platforms.
• - Work closely with the Performance Managers to translate performance data into actionable recommendations and insights.

Campaign Execution & Performance

• - Oversee the planning, execution, and optimisation of high-performance paid social campaigns.
• - Ensure best practices are applied to audience targeting, bid strategies, budget allocation, and creative performance.
• - Work with our measurement and analytics team to track incremental uplift, ROAS, and campaign effectiveness.

Team Growth & Development

• - Build, mentor, and manage an expanding team of paid social specialists, while overseeing and delegating responsibilities effectively to maximise efficiency in campaign execution and team workload
• - Develop structured SOPs and training materials to standardise campaign management and execution.
• - Collaborate with colleagues to align multi-channel strategies across search, display, and social.

Client Engagement and Succes

• - Join key client meetings to present new strategies, campaign performance insights, and growth opportunities.
• - Provide strategic consultation to clients on paid social investments, audience segmentation, and performance improvements.
• - Lead the development and execution of full-funnel paid social strategies tailored to eCommerce brands.

Technology & Automation

• - Implement and manage third-party tools (e.g., AI-driven creative testing, automation platforms, audience segmentation tools) to enhance workflow efficiency and campaign performance.
• - Evaluate and onboard technology solutions that can streamline reporting, performance analysis, and campaign execution.
• - Stay ahead of platform developments and advocate for early adoption of new paid social innovations.

Cultural fit

• In addition to your marketing skills and experience, we seek someone who fits well with our culture and team. At ER, we balance challenging, exciting work with flexibility and a life-work balance that suits you. We are passionate about our work, the retail environment, and our clients, but equally passionate about our hobbies, friends, family, and various initiatives outside of work. Our supportive and humble team culture allows you to be yourself, fostering an environment for personal and professional growth.

‍Your background

• - 3+ years of experience in paid social media management, preferably in an agency or client setting.
• - Proven track record of scaling paid social accounts with a data-driven approach.
• - Experience with test-and-learn frameworks and running structured experiments for optimisation.
• - Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• - Hands-on experience across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and emerging paid social platforms.
• - Comfortable leading a team and working cross-functionally with performance managers, creative teams, and measurement analysts.
• - Experience using automation and third-party technology to enhance paid social effectiveness.
• - Excellent communication and presentation skills for internal training and client-facing discussions.
• - Love eCommerce and love working with emerging direct-to-consumer brands
• - You are based in Sydney and have Australian working rights.

Some extra perks

If you see yourself at Elephant Room, you’ll enjoy a range of extra perks.

• - Flexibility is a key value for us, with office days in Sydney on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the freedom to choose your work location for the rest of the week.
• - Enjoy time-shifting possibilities, Summer Fridays, Flexible Public Holidays, and up to 10 additional leave days per year.
• - Work from anywhere for four weeks a year.
• - Participate in frequent team-building activities, monthly lunches, milestone cakes, town hall drinks, and connection days.
• - We value your development with extensive performance and learning cycles, regular development conversations, self-reflection exercises, and 360 feedback opportunities.
• - We support parents with 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, and enjoy our dog-friendly office in Marrickville, featuring end-of-trip facilities, free parking, and convenient access to public transport, shops, and cafes.

The process

• If you are interested but have some questions, don't hesitate to send an email or text message to Sangita de Jong, People & Culture Manager (Careers@elephantroom.com.au / 0466 112 463). If you want to apply for the job, you can share your CV or LinkedIn profile below. During the process, you will have the opportunity to speak with Daniel Torres (General Manager), Adam Sharon-Zipser (Founder and Managing Director) and people from the media team.