Saatchi & Saatchi

Vice President Director, Social Commerce

Saatchi & Saatchi$129K — $207K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in social commerce, influence, e-commerce, digital media, or related fields
  • Strong understanding of the social commerce ecosystem, particularly TikTok Shop
  • Experience in agency or highly matrixed environments preferred
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Excellent written, verbal, and communication skills
  • Strong analytical mindset with ability to interpret performance data
  • Proficiency in presentation development
  • Passion for social commerce and emerging platforms

Responsibilities

  • Executing and scaling social commerce strategies for clients
  • Managing day-to-day client relationships for social commerce programs
  • Overseeing cross-functional execution to ensure program delivery
  • Coordinating campaign execution across content and media teams
  • Identifying optimization opportunities based on data insights
  • Building client presentations and strategic recommendations
  • Collaborating with internal and external teams to drive program success

Benefits

  • Medical coverage
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Disability benefits
  • 401K
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Family forming assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible time off
Full Job Description
Overview

We're looking for an outstanding VP/Director, Social Commerce to own the day-to-day execution and performance of social commerce programs, primarily across TikTok Shop, for key client accounts. This role is responsible for translating strategy into action, ensuring programs run efficiently and delivering against engagement, conversion, and sales objectives. You will partner cross-functionally across strategy, media, analytics, and creator teams to activate, optimize, and scale social commerce initiatives, driving measurable business growth.

Sound like you? Read on.

As VP/Director of Social Commerce, you'll help clients navigate the evolving social commerce landscape by developing scalable strategies, supporting campaign execution, identifying growth opportunities, and translating performance insights into actionable recommendations. The ideal candidate is highly collaborative, detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and moving parts.

Responsibilities

Day to day your role includes:
  • Executing and helping clients scale their social commerce strategies across platforms, driving measurable performance across content, creators, and commerce initiatives
  • Managing the day-to-day client relationship for social commerce clients
  • Overseeing cross-functional execution across internal teams (social strategy, data & analytics, paid social, etc) to ensure program delivery
  • Owning the day-to-day execution of social commerce campaigns, including coordination across content, affiliate, media, and key internal stakeholders so ensure efficient delivery and strong in-market performance
  • Identifying optimization opportunities and helping translate data into actionable recommendations for internal teams and clients
  • Building client-facing presentations, reporting recaps, strategic POV's, case studies and social commerce growth recommendations
  • Supporting promotional planning, campaign launches, tentpole moments, and platform activations
  • Collaborating with social strategy team to translate platform trends and emerging capabilities into actionable recommendations, helping inform client strategies and identifying opportunities for growth
  • Partnering closely with external stakeholders including platform representatives, other internal agencies, and clients to support successful execution of programs
  • Building and refining scalable processes, operational workflows, and best practices across social commerce programs
  • Managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously within a fast-paced, highly collaborative agency environment
  • Partnering with store operations to successfully launch new TikTok Shops
  • Collaborating with the data & analytics team to report on key performance metrics (engagement, conversion, sales impact), optimizing programs and informing future investment decisions
  • Executing on ad hoc strategic requests, performance analysis, and innovation opportunities as the social commerce landscape evolves


Qualifications

Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of experience in social commerce, influence, e-commerce, digital media, or related fields
  • Strong understanding of the social commerce ecosystem, particularly TikTok Shop
  • Experience working within an agency, holding company, platform, or highly matrixed organization preferred
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Excellent written, verbal, and communication skills
  • Comfortable navigating past-paced environments with evolving priorities and tight timelines
  • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret performance data and identify actionable insights
  • Proficiency in presentation development
  • Passion for social commerce, creator economy trends, and emerging platforms
  • Ability to build strong working relationships across internal teams, external partners, and clients


Got what it takes? We'd love to hear from you.

Additional information

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: $129,485-$207,324.This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/1/26.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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