Associate Director, Social Media

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Boston, MA +1

This role leads the multi-year strategy for TikTok and emerging social platforms, focusing on revenue contribution, incremental growth, and capital efficiency. It involves building AI-enabled creative systems, experimentation frameworks, and measurement rigor to scale these platforms into durable growth engines. The role requires partnering with various teams to translate performance insights into investment decisions and shaping the overall growth architecture.

What you'd actually do

  1. Set and own the multi-year strategy and capital allocation roadmap for TikTok and emerging social channels, aligned to enterprise revenue and profitability goals.
  2. Define the investment thesis for emerging social, including incrementality targets, efficiency guardrails, and scaling criteria.
  3. Own full-funnel performance outcomes, including incremental revenue, customer acquisition efficiency, brand lift, media quality, and share of voice.
  4. Establish experimentation governance and learning agendas that inform enterprise budget decisions and channel mix.
  5. Build and scale AI-enabled creative, bidding, and signal systems to accelerate testing velocity and performance gains.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in paid social, growth marketing, or performance media with progressive channel ownership.
  • 3+ years of experience leading teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
  • Demonstrated success building and scaling channels from early-stage testing to enterprise-level impact.
  • Experience owning significant budget and influencing capital allocation decisions tied to revenue outcomes.
  • Strong strategic thinking with the ability to connect channel performance to broader business objectives.
  • Deep expertise in experimentation design, creative testing systems, and performance optimization at scale.
  • Proven ability to shape measurement approaches, including incrementality, lift studies, and MMM decision-making.
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally across brand, analytics, finance, martech, and product to drive enterprise results.
  • High ownership mindset with consistent focus on brand integrity, media quality, and long-term value creation.

Nice to have

  • Experience defining an emerging channel growth pillar within a larger performance marketing organization.
  • AI-enabled creative analytics and rapid variation testing systems at scale.
  • Advanced signal strategy and automated bidding frameworks with clear governance controls.
  • Ecommerce or retail growth leadership in a high-velocity, performance-driven environment.
  • Experience presenting investment recommendations to senior stakeholders.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-enabled creative systems
  • experimentation frameworks
  • measurement rigor
  • capital allocation roadmap
  • enterprise revenue
  • incremental revenue
  • customer acquisition efficiency
  • brand lift
  • media quality
  • share of voice
  • experimentation governance
  • learning agendas
  • enterprise budget decisions
  • channel mix
  • AI-enabled creative
  • bidding
  • signal systems
  • testing velocity
  • performance gains
  • measurement frameworks
  • Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM)
  • capital allocation decisions
  • executive-ready narratives
  • enterprise planning
  • investments
  • operating model
  • new social platforms
  • processes
  • tools
  • tracking
  • taxonomy
  • QA
  • reporting
  • platform partnerships
  • betas
  • new ad products
  • competitive advantage
  • lead and develop a high-performing team
  • agency partners
  • performance standards
  • growth paths
  • paid social
  • growth marketing
  • performance media
  • channel ownership
  • leading teams
  • hiring
  • coaching
  • performance management
  • building and scaling channels
  • early-stage testing
  • enterprise-level impact
  • owning significant budget
  • influencing capital allocation decisions
  • revenue outcomes
  • strategic thinking
  • connect channel performance
  • broader business objectives
  • experimentation design
  • creative testing systems
  • performance optimization at scale
  • shape measurement approaches
  • incrementality
  • lift studies
  • MMM decision-making
  • partnering cross-functionally
  • brand
  • analytics
  • finance
  • martech
  • product
  • enterprise results
  • high ownership mindset
  • brand integrity
  • media quality
  • long-term value creation
  • emerging channel growth pillar
  • performance marketing organization
  • AI-enabled creative analytics
  • rapid variation testing systems
  • advanced signal strategy
  • automated bidding frameworks
  • governance controls
  • ecommerce
  • retail growth leadership
  • high-velocity
  • performance-driven environment
  • presenting investment recommendations
  • senior stakeholders