Associate Director, Digital Activation

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $125K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor Programmatic/Direct Investment team members, setting clear expectations and performance standards
  • Manage team resourcing and ensure efficient use of talent across workstreams
  • Support onboarding, training, and development of team members
  • Establish and reinforce best practices, processes, and frameworks
  • Foster a collaborative, accountable, and solutions-oriented team culture
  • Own Investment performance and identify opportunities to drive incremental growth
  • Develop strategies aligned to client business goals across awareness, consideration, and conversion, with a focus on bottom-funnel tactics
  • Identify and test new partners, products, and approaches
  • Contribute to broader practice development and innovation initiatives
  • Own end-to-end execution of programmatic and direct publisher campaigns

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or relevant post-secondary education, training, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience in programmatic and/or digital activation
  • Hands-on keyboard experience with DSPs (Yahoo!, The Trade Desk, DV360, Google Ads) and programmatic ecosystems
  • Experience executing across display, video, native, and direct publisher buys
  • Strong understanding of financial advertising regulations, data usage, and compliance considerations
  • Proficiency in ad serving and measurement tools
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into insights and business impact
  • Proven team leadership or mentoring experience
  • Strong client communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment
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PHD

Welcome to PHD.Powered by our next-generation network, PHD’s advanced thinking - Intelligence. Connected. - combines data, technology, and human expertise collaboratively to achieve greatness.This is how we are one of the world’s most awarded media agencies, and currently ADWEEK’s Global Media Agency of the Year.We have around 6,500 people in 81 offices across 74 countries, all connected in one platform, Studio. Studio, which launched in 2018, allows our account teams, planners, and strategists worldwide to collaborate to create online campaigns, producing 70,000 unique ideas from across the agency, together.This is how we transform experiences.This is how we move brands and businesses forward.www.phdmedia.com

Founded in 2006
London, England, GBR
5K employees (1,376 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
95.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.8%
Direct
40.3%
Referral
8.8%
Social
3.8%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,281 (26% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
18