Associate Director, Audience Strategy & Insights

El Segundo, CA (On-site)

$107K/yr – $164K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive audience strategy and activation to inform planning and growth across identity and segmentation initiatives.

  • Own audience strategy development aligned to brand objectives and marketing goals.
  • Must-have: 5+ years in audience strategy, analytics, or related roles.
  • Standout: Cross-functional leadership across Analytics, Media, Activation, and Technology teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Audience Strategy & Growth Enablement
  • Support the development of audience strategies aligned to brand objectives, growth priorities, and marketing goals.
  • Translate business and marketing questions into audience hypotheses, segmentation approaches, and targeting considerations.
  • Partner with audience, data, and technology teams to support scalable, addressable audience activation.
  • Contribute to building and maintaining a body of audience knowledge to inform ongoing and future planning.
  • Audience Informed Planning & Lifecycle Integration
  • Partner with Analytics & Insights during planning to ensure audience definitions and segmentation logic are reflected in learning agendas.
  • Support the integration of audience strategy into planning and activation decisions without owning performance measurement or adjudication.
  • Embed audience thinking from briefing through post campaign analysis and refinement.
  • Identity, Segmentation & Addressability
  • Support audience segmentation and growth audience development using first party, third party, and identity-based data.
  • Help translate identity and data considerations into clear, actionable audience recommendations for internal teams and partners.
  • Partner with data and marketing technology teams to support the operationalization of audience definitions within platforms and tools.
  • Develop working knowledge of identity, addressability, and data connectivity considerations across markets.
  • Activation Partnership & Enablement
  • Partner with Media and Activation teams to ensure audience strategies are executable within channel and platform constraints.
  • Support onboarding, deployment, and reuse of audience segments in alignment with established standards and best practices.
  • Coordinate with internal teams on audience needs that may require custom solutions.
  • Audience Learning & Insight Translation
  • Interpret analytics and measurement outputs through an audience lens in partnership with Analytics & Insights teams to translate learnings into recommendations for future audience refinement and growth opportunities.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in audience strategy, analytics, media, or related disciplines within a media agency, advertising agency, consulting environment, or inhouse brand role.
  • Deep understanding of audience segmentation, growth audiences, digital marketing, CRM, and identity-based targeting.
  • Familiarity with audience and research tools such as MRI, GWI, Epsilon, or similar platforms.
  • Strong understanding of media and ad-tech ecosystems, including DSPs, CDPs, and third-party data.
  • Ability to translate complex data and identity concepts into clear strategic guidance.
  • Proven experience partnering cross-functionally with Analytics, Media, Activation, Creative, and Technology teams.
  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and communication skills.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience and ability to mentor and develop talent.
  • Exceptional problem-solving, organizational, and relationship-building skills.
  • Familiarity with audience, identity, and segmentation tools (e.g., GWI, MRI, Epsilon, or similar)
  • Working knowledge of media and ad-tech platforms used for audience activation.
  • Comfort interpreting outputs from analytics, measurement, and reporting platforms in partnership with Analytics teams.
  • Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills for strategic storytelling

    Benefits

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