Sr. Director, Precision Activation

We bring together the minds and passions of creative pioneers, tech innovators, and data explorers to help ambitious clients solve business challenges and rise to the top. MERGE has enduring client partnerships with American Express, T-Mobile, Subway, Kate Spade NY, Coach, The North Face, Meta, Adobe, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Abbott, Astellas, Supernus, CSL, GE Healthcare, Broward Health, Indiana University Health, and Morgan Stanley.

With offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Montreal, New York City and Los Angeles. MERGE uses a talent-to-task process that enables clients to think higher and feel deeper about their customers.

• Own paid social strategy for a complex, enterprise B2B organization across three distinct business units, ensuring clarity, alignment, and measurable impact.
• Serve as the senior paid social advisor to internal client stakeholders and leadership—guiding channel direction, audience approach, budget allocation, and success metrics.
• Develop and operationalize vertical-specific strategies that balance business objectives, funnel priorities, and performance outcomes.
• Translate goals into full-funnel paid social frameworks, including: audience segmentation and targeting, platform strategy and channel role definition, creative and messaging test plans, measurement and optimization approach.
• Establish and evolve best practices across governance, pacing, QA, naming conventions, campaign architecture, and performance reporting.
• Drive proactive thought leadership and innovation, identifying new opportunities across platforms, ad formats, targeting capabilities, measurement solutions, and automation.
• Partner with MERGE analytics/decision science resources to implement experimentation plans, incrementality thinking, and audience optimization.
• Provide strategic oversight and direction to executional resources (hands-on-keyboard), ensuring campaigns are launched accurately and optimized intentionally.
• Step in to troubleshoot or activate when needed to maintain quality, momentum, and stakeholder confidence.

• 10+ years of paid social experience, with strong B2B and enterprise client leadership.
• Proven ability to operate independently in high-visibility, high-stakes environments.
• Strong ABM background, including account targeting strategy, buying committee messaging, and performance measurement tied to revenue outcomes.
• Deep expertise across Linked In, Meta, and other paid social platforms.
• Strong perspective on audience strategy, testing, and full-funnel performance.
• Confident communicator who is comfortable pushing back when strategy or execution needs refinement.
• Prior experience in embedded, client-side, or in-house environments is a plus.

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At MERGE, we’re committed to fostering an environment where our team members can thrive in both their careers and personal lives, ensuring they feel supported and empowered to succeed.

MERGE believes in transparency and equity. In accordance with state regulations, we’re proud to include salary ranges in our job postings to ensure fair compensation practices.

The salary range for this role is $128,550 - $154,250
, based on the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

MERGE is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401K, Lifestyle Spending Account, Employer Paid Life & Disability Insurance, Flexible Time off & Holidays plus many other benefits and rewards.

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