Director, Content

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$129K/yr – $186K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the content-driven media planning orbit by shaping upstream strategy, cross-portfolio learning, and platform level content decisions that drive ad effectiveness. Focus on content lens across shoots, influencers, and publisher partnerships, with a clear ownership of the learning agenda and collaboration with creatives, planners, and production to ensure budgeted reach translates into impact.

  • Content Strategy & Platform Leadership: set the content role within Experience Plans and align with brand strategy across platforms
  • Production & Content Creation: guide shoot captures, sourcing, influencer/publisher collaborations, and best-practice to lift performance
  • Team Leadership & Governance: drive learning agenda, cross-functional collaboration, and timely, mission-aligned execution

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Maintain an in-depth knowledge of current media industry news and brand business with focus on upstream initiatives
  • Apply your experience to elevate strategic thinking across the portfolio and set learning agenda elements
  • Partner with creatives during idea generation to identify potential for content in today’s landscape through the lens of our consumer
  • Work with Experience Planners to extend creative ideas through additional content
  • Establish content best practice in service of increasing advertising effectiveness
  • Work with Experience Planner and Brand Strategist to identify the role of content at a platform, target or partner level within the Experience Plan
  • Work directly with the lead creatives, ensuring the execution will drive effectiveness based on consumer behavior and best practice within the channel
  • In partnership with Investment team, recommend how much content an experience plan can support given budget and reach sufficiency goals
  • In partnership with Production, recommend what needs to be captured on the shoot, where to source it from, and ensure each execution is fit for purpose
  • Work with Influencers or Media Publishers to produce branded content
  • Actively participate in priority brand meetings, action the learnings and insight by working directly with the creative teams to implement content changes
  • Facilitate team building through collaboration, open communication, and focused project management to assure that assignments are executed in a timely manner
  • Provide vision, direction, management and support to individuals within the team to ensure their work aligns with our mission and goals

Requirements

  • 7+ years of media experience
  • Previous team management experience with progressing leadership responsibilities
  • Ability to strategically plan campaigns from audience determination, through how to best flight and execute campaigns to align with clients strategic goals and KPIs
  • Strong understanding of analytics to inform and validate planning and strategy
  • History of identifying media opportunities, presenting them to clients, and executing
  • Experience monitoring and recommending improvements to the entire media planning process
  • Ensuring people are adopting the best in class tools, techniques, systems to deliver effective media processes
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal along with visual storytelling), diplomacy, and relationship building and decision making skills with the ability to think creatively.

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred, ideally in Marketing, Communications, Advertising or a related field

Benefits

  • The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.
  • Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Work Your World program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
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Starcom

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With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With almost 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellanova, McDonald's, Novartis, Samsung, Visa, WK Kellogg Company and more.

Founded in 1936
Chicago, Illinois, USA
6.1K employees (2,084 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
59% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.1%
Direct
41.6%
Referral
9.1%
Social
4.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,983 (33% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
34

Funding

Total Funding
$57.1M
Last Raise
$43.2M
Series A, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Series A • $43.2M
  • Aug 2025
    Series A
  • May 2025
    Series A • $13.9M

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