Director, Media Strategy & Planning

USA (Remote)

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Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead cross-channel media strategy and planning for enterprise accounts, with team leadership and process optimization, while leveraging AI and Power Digital's Nova ecosystem to drive full-funnel growth.

  • Must-have: 8+ years in cross-channel media strategy/planning
  • Standout: 2–3 direct reports with team leadership
  • Standout: Experience leveraging AI and Power Digital's Nova ecosystem

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owns & Presents Strategic Cross-Channel Media Plans: Lead the development of strategic media plans for enterprise and priority accounts. This includes aligning objectives and KPIs, defining audience targeting, optimizing media channel mix and tactics, selecting channels/partners, and establishing measurement frameworks to drive full-funnel performance
  • Lead Planning Product: Oversee the development and execution of client-facing media planning solutions. This includes facilitating high quality client work, ensuring that processes, teams, and output are maximized for client success
  • Oversee Process Improvement & Efficiency: Drive operational efficiency through tools, processes, and product development and enhancements to enable the team to support rapid growth
  • Team Management & Leadership: Manage a team of media planners, guiding them in their media strategy development and ensuring consistency in the quality and effectiveness of deliverables. Deliver timely, constructive and actionable feedback to team members to up-level their performance and propel their career development. Support key department initiatives such as recruitment, staffing, training, onboarding and more
  • Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams and clients to ensure media plans align with performance metrics, attribution models, and client KPIs, blending strategic inputs with optimization outputs. Partner with the Data Intelligence team to continuously refine media strategies using incrementality testing results
  • New Business Support: Assist the Revenue and Analyst teams by creating collateral development, supporting pitches, and collaborating closely with the dedicated sales lead
  • Thought Leadership: Stay in the know on key industry trends, tools, partners, and innovations. Participate in events such as conferences, speaking opportunities, blog content and training. Develop unique and differentiated POVs on market trends
  • Employ AI technologies to enhance and optimize business processes
  • Utilize and leverage Power Digital's Nova ecosystem as it relates to your department

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in cross-channel media strategy/planning, preferably in an agency setting
  • Proven expertise in media planning fundamentals, including campaign structures, tracking, and optimization approaches
  • Strong understanding of audience analysis and demographic trends for full-funnel strategies
  • Extensive knowledge of owned, earned and paid marketing channels as well as first-party data tools
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills to collaborate effectively across teams
  • Demonstrated managerial experience, including the ability to lead, mentor, and motivate a team of media planners. 2-3 years of team management experience, ideally 2-3 direct reports
  • Highly dependable individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is a self-starter
  • Excellent problem solving, communication, and decision making skills; ability to clearly communicate complex strategies to senior leadership and executive-level stakeholders
  • Strong business acumen, with the ability to translate quantitative data into actionable business insights and recommendations
  • Team-oriented and collaborative, effective interpersonal skills, highly organized

Benefits

  • Base salary + commission opportunities
  • Robust Medical, Dental, Vision insurance plans with up to 100% employer contribution towards employee monthly premium
  • Unlimited Time Off available on day one
  • Up to 4 hours per quarter for paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO) towards philanthropic endeavors
  • Fully flex work environment: full-remote, in-office, or hybrid
  • A one time $100 USD Work From Home (WFH) stipend automatically added to your first paycheck
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • 12 observed United States national holidays + 2 mental health recharge days per year
  • Unlimited opportunities for growth & leadership within a rapidly growing firm
  • Ongoing employee development programs for personal and professional growth (Hedgehog and Vital 5s)
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Power Digital is a growth marketing firm fueled by technology and driven by a talented team of consultative marketers, creatives, analysts and technologists. We ignite revenue growth and brand recognition for leading and emerging brands around the world.Marketing is no longer about a singular offer or what your brand presents visually. It’s a sprawling journey with countless touch points. Consumers shop with their values and gravitate towards brands they trust. They want to be a part of a tribe. A story. What’s more, the path to purchase needs to be fast, frictionless and personable.The media landscape is vastly different, too. Measurement is smarter but also harder than ever. Marketing should be a strategic business driver, a road that leads to profitable revenue growth and brand lift.We take the guesswork out of marketing, making the most from your investment so you get what you really care about: growth, handled from planning to execution.Our experienced team develops custom marketing playbooks fueled by your data, market trends and industry insights to set you apart from the competition, designed to drive revenue and brand lift.Our proprietary technology, nova, analyzes a company’s digital ecosystem using multiple first-party data sources to build informed and custom marketing plans. And, nova de-risks investments by optimizing capital allocation––putting marketers, operators and the investment community in a strategic seat at the table.When you know the customer journey, singular channels don’t matter because you’re building a strategic program. That’s what we are in the business of: igniting growth and brand recognition for the brands we are lucky to call our clients.

Founded in 2012
San Diego, California, USA
2.1K employees (1,001 in marketing)
73% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
50.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$72.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.5%
Direct
40.1%
Referral
8.5%
Social
2.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
908 (43% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
4.4 years

Funding

Last Raise
Secondary Market, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2022
    Secondary Market
  • Jan 2019
    Private Equity