Associate Director, Audience Strategy

Chicago, IL (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years exp

Posted 8 months ago

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Job Summary

Own audience design and data-driven media guidance across client accounts, turning analytics into actionable media decisions and customer journeys.

  • Audience Strategy Ownership: Apply audience insights to guide media plans and activation across channels.
  • Cross-functional Influence: Partner with Data Science and agency teams to translate insights into recommendations and mentor peers.
  • Storytelling & Governance: Present clear POVs to clients, map journeys, and drive growth with multi-workstream coordination.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Guide & drive use of audience data to impact media strategies for client account(s) based on overall objectives
  • Thoroughly understands the use cases of each audience tool and when to use which based on needs
  • Collaboration with Data Science: Work closely with data science teams to mine and analyze data, uncover key insights, and translate findings into actionable recommendations that support audience growth strategies
  • Audience Profiling and Customer Journey Mapping: Analyze first party and third-party data to create detailed audience profiles, uncover behavioral insights, and map customer journeys that inform strategic planning and marketing activation
  • Strong foundation in strategic and critical thinking, finding ways to innovate and collaborate with teams to improve outputs
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with agency teams across various disciplines to ensure alignment of audience strategies with broader marketing initiatives. Serve as a bridge between the Audience Insights team and partner agencies, providing data-driven guidance and solutions
  • Successful at building strong, collaborative client relationships, instilling trust and authority on behalf of the agency
  • Identify opportunities and industry learning. Meet with vendors and provide a POV with a client lens and in desired format. Educate/evangelize the findings
  • Confidence, composure, and polished presentation skills to effectively attend and lead in-person meetings with key clients
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
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Publicis Groupe

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Founded in 1926 by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, today Publicis Groupe is the second largest communications group in the world and a leader in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation, led by Arthur Sadoun, the third CEO in its history. Publicis Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Publicis Groupe is a privileged partner in its clients’ transformation to enhance personalisation at scale. The Groupe relies on ten expertise concentrated within four main activities: Communication, Media, Data and Technology. Through a unified and fluid organisation, its clients have a facilitated access to all its expertise in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 103,000 professionals. Website: www.publicisgroupe.com X: @PublicisGroupe Instagram: @publicisgroupe YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/publicisgroupe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/publicisgroupe

Founded in 1926
Paris, Ile de France, FR
34K employees (11,817 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~40.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8,687 (22% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
3.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
103

Funding

Total Funding
$1.4B
Last Raise
$1.4B
Post IPO Debt, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1.4B

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