Senior Director, Paid Social Director Darkroom , US + Workplace ago

Darkroom is the leading next-generation growth marketing firm engineering the brands of tomorrow. Founded in 2017, we set out to redefine what a modern agency could be, by replacing the inertia of legacy advertising behemoths with a model built for speed, intelligence, and measurable impact.

At our core, Darkroom is a human services company powered by Shadow, a universal AI commerce layer that integrates executive-level strategy with proprietary agentic technology. This fusion enables our teams to deliver outsized returns by enhancing creative output, operational efficiency, and revenue generation across every stage of the customer journey.

Our track record speaks for itself: billions in attributable revenue driven across e-commerce marketplaces, media networks, DTC ecosystems, and social commerce platforms. Every engagement feeds into our proprietary data infrastructure, enabling a continuous feedback loop that accelerates growth, improves margins, and compounds results across our client portfolio.

What began as a boutique design studio has evolved into one of the fastest-growing private companies in America (Inc. 5000) and among the most effective performance media agencies of the 2020s (Varos). Our founders were recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 for advancing the intersection of technology, marketing, and advertising, cementing Darkroom’s role as a defining player in the future of media innovation.

About the Role

We are hiring for our Paid Media team, looking for a Senior Director, Paid Social
: the head of Darkroom’s Paid Social practice. This is an executive leadership role. You’ll own the strategy, performance, and commercial health of the practice, lead a team of Associate Directors, Paid Social Managers, and Specialists, and be accountable for the outcomes paid social delivers across Darkroom’s entire client portfolio.

The ideal candidate is a recognized expert in Meta direct response advertising who has already built and run a paid social organization ’ve scaled multiple ad accounts well beyond $1M USD per month, led teams that include managers of managers, and served as a trusted strategic advisor to CMOs and founders. You think in systems, not campaigns, and you know how to build an organization that runs those systems well without you in every account.

You’ll report to the Managing Director of Paid Media and sit on the Paid Media leadership team, partnering with Darkroom leadership on practice growth, margin, hiring, and the evolution of our service offering. You’ll collaborate closely with Paid Search, Programmatic, Creative, Analytics, Growth Strategy, and Shadow, and will be responsible for building the next generation of paid social leaders at Darkroom.

This is a fast-paced, high-accountability environment for leaders who want to shape how a practice operates and grows. You’ll have the scope to define what best-in-class paid social looks like at Darkroom, and the influence to make it the standard across every account we touch.

Darkroom is a career incubator for ambitious talent looking to operate at the intersection of business, design, and innovation.

What you’ll do:

• Own the multi-year vision, strategy, and performance of Darkroom’s Paid Social practice, setting the direction for how the practice grows across platforms, verticals, and service lines.

• Sit on the Paid Media leadership team and partner with the Managing Director on practice OKRs, annual planning, budgeting, and headcount.

• Own the practice’s commercial health, including revenue, margin, client retention, account growth, and team utilization, and report on it to Darkroom leadership.

• Shape Darkroom’s paid social service offering, defining scopes, pricing inputs, and new service lines as the platform…