Associate Director, Audience Data & Platforms

Atlanta, GA (On-site)

$89K/yr – $127K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the data and tech-led client advisory work, translating adtech capabilities into client-ready guidance and POVs while coordinating identity/CDP deployments and cross-team activation.

  • Client ownership: day-to-day relationships, risk anticipation, and care strategies
  • Tech & data ownership: oversee identity/CDP platforms and data flows, with vendor education and activation support
  • Knowledge sharing: evangelize audience insights to clients and internal teams to influence decisions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage data strategy for advertising clients, communicating strategies/recommendations to clients using a consultative approach
  • Understand how platform/data technologies work and offer the ability to explain technical concepts in ordinary terms (be technically savvy - understand the opportunities and limitations)
  • Identify opportunities – industry learning, meet with vendors and provide a POV, with a client lens and in desired format -- education/evangelize the findings
  • Oversee relationship with the Identity Resolution platforms, CDPs, or other AdTech solutions and project manage the deployment and activation of data technology solutions
  • Partner with internal Programmatic and media investment arms to support campaign activation as well as advanced data use cases
  • Oversee, author and/or constructively edit and review the writing of media documents (timelines, POVs, RFPs, plans, agreements, client memos, and correspondence from within and outside the agency).
  • Share knowledge with client and internal teams regarding audience insights and results to impact business needs
  • Provides input to client business-related decisions
  • Ownership of day-to-day client relationship (mid-level)
  • Anticipates risks and prepares multiple resolutions

Requirements

  • 5+ years of prior digital advertising experience in a client-services capacity
  • 2+ years managing 2+ direct reports
  • In-depth technical knowledge of ad and marketing technology, including ad servers, rich media, dynamic creative, streaming video, OBA, ad verification, customer data management platforms, identity resolution solutions, DSPs, etc
  • Strong project management skills and keen ability to delegate
  • Strong understanding of digital media planning and management processes
  • Expert knowledge and experience with Identity Solution tools (eg. Epsilon, Liveramp, Neustar)
  • Expert understanding and usage of CDP (eg. Salesforce, Adobe, Treasure Data)
  • Expert understanding data flow within adtech/martech ecosystem.

Preferred

    Benefits

    • medical coverage
    • dental
    • vision
    • disability
    • 401K
    • parental and family care leave
    • family forming assistance
    • tuition reimbursement
    • flexible time off
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