Associate Director, Paid Media Planning

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$101K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive media strategy across clients with multi-channel planning and robust measurement, leading client-facing work and mentoring.

  • Own cross-channel media planning and performance optimization.
  • Must-have: 5-7 years in cross-channel media planning.
  • Standout: Mentoring and thought leadership across teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop media plans and recommendations for a range of assigned clients by translating their strategic visions into media objectives to accomplish a wide range of client objectives including direct response (lead gen and fundraising), awareness, persuasion, and advocacy.
  • Analyze ongoing and historical performance data to identify opportunities for improvement, make strategic recommendations, and generate reporting and insights to drive optimization.
  • Have a strong POV on measurement, attribution, and conversion tracking, and apply that knowledge to strategic recommendations and ongoing campaign management.
  • Participate in (and frequently lead) client-facing interactions to deliver media strategies and provide clients with the context to understand how your tactical media plans will achieve their business objectives
  • Work collaboratively with other internal or external teams, including media planners, strategists, account directors, designers, and analysts, to produce campaigns, creative ideas, audience and target recommendations, and experimental designs.
  • Keep us up to date with the latest digital media trends by maintaining relationships with media partners and engaging in media R&D projects
  • Serve as a mentor and internal and external thought leader by helping train colleagues to develop media strategy expertise, writing blog posts, and participating on panels.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years experience in cross-channel media planning, including a mix of digital and traditional media
  • Demonstrated experience translating client business goals into cohesive media strategies and specific KPIs, and a record of managing large scale, multi-channel media campaigns that delivered on those goals.
  • Deep understanding of all aspects of media strategy, planning, campaign management, and analysis reporting, and the tools and platforms used
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple clients and projects on time, within budget, and meet performance goals.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, especially with regards to budgeting, pacing and spend tracking, managing vendor relationships and paperwork, and reporting.
  • Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required.
  • A shared passion and curiosity for delivering change. This includes comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality that ensures we’re always making progress.
  • A testing evangelist - no result is ever a problem as long as we can learn and improve in future.
  • Humble in victory, constructive in defeat. We champion and expect empathy, communication, collaboration, and respect

Benefits

  • Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
  • $1,250 annually in professional development funds
  • Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Inclusive family planning coverage, including fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits
  • Flexible and health savings accounts
  • 401K & employer match
  • Generous paid holiday schedule
  • 12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
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We believe there’s no force more powerful than people taking collective action on the things they care about. When an organization wants to mobilize people around a common purpose, they come to us. We don’t pretend to have all the answers, but we know where to find them: in people. We listen, learn, and uncover new insights that often surprise us and our clients — and move us toward better results. Blue State got its start on the campaign trail, pioneering the use of digital to open up the democratic process. Our new approach caught on, and we set out to do more good: raising millions more for nonprofits, shaping legislation and public opinion, and connecting consumers with brands. While our approach is continually evolving, our ethos has never changed:Make good trouble.When the status quo stands in the way of progress, we challenge it.Be curious.We ask the tough questions and let the data lead to answers.Put people first.We let the user drive the program, not the other way around.Drive real change.We obsess over outcomes and actions.If you need it, build it.We make stuff that empowers people to act on the things they care about.Walk the walk.Progress starts with us: our diversity, inclusion, and commitment to values over profits.

Founded in 2004
Brooklyn, New York, USA
174 employees (52 in marketing)

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