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Paid Social Manager at Choice Hotels | LAYIQ

Channel Expertise & Thought Leadership
Serve as the in-house SME for Paid Social across platforms (Meta, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, and emerging social channels).
Recommend and help evolve how Choice Hotels leverages Paid Social across brands, segments, and media programs to drive business outcomes.
Develop and maintain forward-looking and backward-looking POVs on: Audience targeting, segmentation, and prospecting vs. retargeting approaches
Platform capabilities, automation, privacy changes, and emerging industry trends
Collaborate with Creative team on Creative best practices for Paid Social (e.g., video, short-form, and AI-enabled creative)
Translate competitive intelligence, platform developments, and industry trends into actionable recommendations that inform channel strategy, planning, and investment decisions.
Build strong partnerships with social platforms and agency partners to identify innovation opportunities, benchmark performance, and stay ahead of emerging trends.
Serve as a key liaison with the agency Social Media COE to ensure alignment on best practices, testing priorities, and innovation opportunities.
Influence on Strategy & Execution
Partner with Paid Media Planning & Activation teams to guide and influence paid social strategies; provide input into annual channel strategy and quarterly media plans
Provide frameworks, best practices, and recommendations that support campaign approach and investment decisions.
Ensure campaigns reflect best-in-class paid social practices without direct ownership of execution
Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or missed opportunities and recommend improvements
Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
Build and maintain relationships with key social platforms (Meta, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, and others).
Parter with key social platform partners on JPBs focused on: Innovation roadmaps
Beta and early access opportunities
Partner accountability and value creation
Best-in-class capability adoption
Ensure platform partners contribute to long-term capability building and not just campaign delivery
Operational Excellence & Capability Building
Build repeatable playbooks, templates, and frameworks that improve the consistency, quality, and scalability of the team’s work over time
Share what’s working across platforms, bring fresh insights to the table, and collaborate to keep social strategy and content ahead of the curve
Contribute to scalable systems and operating improvements that allow the team to focus more energy on higher-impact work
Drive adoption of best practices and elevate overall team capability through enablement and knowledge sharing
Testing, Innovation & Insights
Lead paid social testing and learning initiatives (e.g. creative testing, incrementality testing, audience frameworks, platform capabilities).
Partner with AAT to ensure paid social is accurately represented in measurement approaches
Translate platform trends and performance signals into actionable insights and strategic recommendations
Surface new opportunities for growth across formats, audiences, and partners

About Choice

Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With 7,500 hotels in 45+ countries and territories, we offer a range of high-quality lodging options in the upper upscale, upper midscale, midscale, extended stay, and economy segments. We’re the hotel company for those who choose to bet on themselves — the striver, the dreamer, the entrepreneur — because that’s who we are, too.

At Choice, we are united by the simple belief that tomorrow will be even better than today — for associates, our company, and our franchisees. At our worldwide corporate headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland, at our technology center in Scottsdale, Arizona, and through our associates around the globe, every voice is heard and every idea is listened to, no matter what area of the company they come from.

We are united in supporting the entrepreneurial dreams of our thousands of franchise owners, which propels us forward — giving our work at Choice a purpose larger than our business.

Our corporate office locations:

North Bethesda, MD — Located at Pike & Rose , our worldwide headquarters is less than 15 miles from Washington, D.C., one block away from the North Bethesda Metro station, with easy access to I-495, complimentary parking, electronic charging stations, restaurants and retail.

Scottsdale, AZ — Located at the northwest corner of Loop 101, the Scottsdale office is home to our technology, eCommerce and customer service organizations, with easy access to complimentary parking, electronic charging stations, restaurants and retail.

Minneapolis, MN — Select roles are based in our Minneapolis office on Highway 394, near the intersection with Highway 100, only five minutes from downtown.

Field/Remote — Select roles designated as field/remote will require associates to work from a home office, connecting virtually with Choice team members and leadership on Zoom, with possible required travel depending on the role.

Choice’s Cultural Values
Welcome and Respect Everyone | Be Bold | Be Quick | Listen | Be Curious | Show Integrity
Choice’s Leadership Principles
Act with Intention | Lead with Authenticity | Grow & Deliver

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