Director, Paid Media

Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

$126K/yr – $155K/yrDirector/Executive9+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the client portfolio by shaping strategy, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering data-driven, multi-channel plans that achieve business goals.

  • Own client relationships and long-term strategy
  • Lead cross-team execution and annual multi-channel planning

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Devise the vision to achieve client's strategic objectives through meaningful thought leadership.
  • Develop a deep understanding of each client’s business and leverage data to deliver consistent results and guide growth opportunities to reinforce the agency's strategic value.
  • Build trust with clients by developing a standard of excellence around performance and brand marketing focused on predictable, data-correlated plans to meet business goals.
  • Demonstrate thought leadership by identifying key industry changes & evolutions, and emerging technology innovations to provide informed recommendations and propose solutions to clients proactively.
  • Drive account strategic success through development and management of short and long term goals, client growth opportunities, and oversight of complex deliverables including quarterly business reviews and annual multi-channel budget planning.
  • Lead management of client communication needs across the team and strive to exceed client service expectations.
  • Direct team operations to ensure successful delivery of media through development of effective cross-channel marketing plans, flawless campaign management, and data analysis with intent to provide data-led strategic recommendations.
  • Lead a team of employees to positive outcomes by providing thoughtful management, training in key areas, and fostering an environment for growth and development opportunities.
  • Lead strategic client relationship development and identify opportunities to achieve business growth.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership to problem solve company challenges and drive the achievement of company growth goals.

Requirements

  • 9+ years’ experience in managing paid media across digital channels – search (organic and paid), social, display, programmatic, and video
  • 4+ years’ experience managing multi-layered teams.
  • Prior experience as a Brand Strategist or Brand Planner
  • Proven ability to produce innovative multi-channel media plans and go-to-market strategies for complex clients - you are a strong strategic thinker, with the ability to translate quantitative and qualitative data and insights into innovative marketing strategies.
  • Understanding and demonstrated experience of performance media principles - driving positive ROAS, maximizing lead generation and marketing subscription-based programs through the full marketing funnel and across marketing channels.
  • Analytically minded - you aren’t afraid to dig in to troubleshoot issues and you’re always thinking about ways to improve in order to drive retention of clients.
  • Strong project management skills with ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously to meet deadlines.
  • Has a positive 'no task is too small' attitude and can-do mentality to drive teams forward.
  • Excited by digital marketing trends and inspired to enact best-in-class programs for clients.
  • Excellent team player with strong collaboration skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You are agile in both leadership and execution.

Preferred

  • Agency or consultancy expertise and comprehensive business understanding in the retail, CPG, or technology landscape preferred.
  • Experience working with creative and development teams to produce and iterate digital assets preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive and equitable pay, 401k matching, and bi-annual bonus eligibility
  • Flexible PTO and Half-Day Fridays
  • Philanthropic Efforts and Paid Time Off to Volunteer
  • Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Annual Wellness Stipend
  • Currently a hybrid work environment with stunning NYC & Dallas offices
  • Suite of parental benefits, including generous paid leave, 529 scholarship fund, Milk Stork, and fully stocked mother’s room
  • January Digital is committed to providing our employees with flexible work options that allow them to balance their professional and personal responsibilities. As such, we offer a hybrid work policy that allows employees to divide their time between working in the office and working remotely. Under this policy, employees are required to work in either our Dallas or NYC office at least 5 days per month, however you are welcomed to come in as often as you'd like! These days will be determined by your manager and/or team.
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January Digital

January Digital is the Marketing Leadership Company. We solve business challenges through media excellence, strategic guidance, and actionable analytics. Our agency team handles full funnel media planning, execution, and optimization while our consulting team offers true strategic leadership for building successful client marketing organizations. All our work is supported with a strong foundation of data and actionable insights which ensure our clients are as successful as possible.As a company, our motto is to build a company that improves the lives of our clients, our people, and the world around us. We support this mission through a number of efforts including our WORKS program. Good Works is our philanthropy program that ensures we have an outsized impact on our surrounding communities through financial and volunteering efforts. Our Well Works program focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual health of our employees through required minimum PTO, an annual wellness stipend, fully paid health care, fully paid counseling services, extended parental leave, and much more.Between our work and our culture, January Digital has been recognized more than 125 times, including being named a Best Place to Work by INC four times and Dallas Business Journal three times, one of Ad Age's Best Places to Work 2025, a 2024 NRF Partner of the Year, a seven-time INC 5000 fastest growing company, and numerous awards for our tactical and strategic excellence with innovative partners like Carhartt and Kendra Scott.

Founded in 2011
New York, New York, USA
101 employees (26 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$126K/yr – $155K/yr

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.7%
Direct
45.6%
Referral
7.1%
Social
15.6%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~101

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Director, Paid Media

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