Group Director, Growth Audiences

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$136K/yr – $200K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own and lead the development of growth audiences for client accounts, shaping audience definitions, signal frameworks, and data-driven media decisions to drive business outcomes.

  • Define and prioritize audiences for each client and translate insights into media strategy
  • Collaborate with analytics and planning to measure audience impact and optimize activation
  • Communicate insights and strategic recommendations to clients and internal teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the development of growth audiences for assigned accounts, identifying the set of audiences (1P and 3P) needed to solve specific client business challenges and growth objectives.
  • Establish clear audience definitions, priorities, and signal frameworks tailored to each client's business model, channels, and measurement capabilities.
  • Translate audience and data insights into consistent signal, platform data and audience targeting definitions across the paid media platforms .
  • Use audience data to develop and refine tiering strategies for local media applications of overall growth audience system
  • Ensure audience insights directly inform media planning decisions, including channel prioritization, media platform prioritization, messaging direction, journey design, and performance benchmarks.
  • Maintain audience systems and related outputs, ensuring they remain current, accurate, and consistently applied across planning and activation.
  • Partner with Analytics on audience-focused measurement frameworks and monitoring processes that connect audience performance to business outcomes and media effectiveness.
  • Analyze audience performance results on an ongoing basis to identify refinements, optimization opportunities, and learnings that inform audience and media evolution.
  • Drive iterative improvements to audience definitions, media plans, and targeting strategies based on in-market learning and changing client business needs.
  • Clearly communicate audience performance insights and recommendations to clients and internal teams, translating data into actionable strategic direction.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in audience strategy, growth strategy, media strategy, or data-driven marketing within client-facing environments.
  • Deep expertise in developing audience systems, including audience definitions, prioritization frameworks, and translating audience insights into media strategy.
  • Strong experience in performance measurement, analytics, and using data to optimize marketing strategies and inform decision-making.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate audience insight into clear media and experience decisions that shape channel roles, messaging strategy, and performance optimization.
  • Fluency across the media, data, and technology ecosystem, with the ability to navigate platform constraints, addressability considerations, and measurement approaches.
  • Proven success as a trusted senior client advisor, skilled at building strong partnerships and translating complexity into clear, actionable direction for senior stakeholders.
  • Strong collaborative skills and ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment with planning, activation, and analytics teams.
  • Strategic storyteller comfortable with ambiguity, able to recommend bold directions, and driven to continuously improve approaches based on performance and learnings.
  • Ability to travel up to 10 % as required to support client, team, and business needs (including travel for new business pitches).

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
  • Life insurance,
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
  • 401k,
  • Flexible paid time off,
  • At least 15 paid holidays per year,
  • Paid sick and safe leave, and
  • Paid parental leave.
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