Manager, Programmatic

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$90K/yr – $95K/yrManagerFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own client-facing execution and oversight across a portfolio, shaping vendor strategy, campaign optimization, reporting, and audience-based growth initiatives while coaching junior teammates and solving complex problems.

  • Owns day-to-day client management and optimization within a portfolio, aligned to technical know-how and campaign parameters.
  • Leads vendor strategy and prepares clean, actionable platform reporting for key stakeholders.
  • Drives solutions innovation and team supervision to enable cross-account growth and problem solving.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Customer/Client Management: Owns the execution and day-to-day management of a portion of a client assignment, based on specialized or technical knowledge
  • Vendor Relationship Management: Leads the vendor strategy; has experience and industry knowledge to identify vendors for key needs. Approves vendor selections and scopes
  • Discipline-Specific Tasks: Owns oversight of junior team members; defines optimization parameters at the campaign level, vets optimization suggestions from partners, attends internal status meetings to speak to optimizations, pacing, and performance
  • Platform Reporting: Works with team on development of reporting dashboards; ensures clean, accurate, and actionable client reporting
  • Solutions Innovation: Identifies and delivers new audience-based addressable solutions to drive business growth; masters growth initiatives across the company
  • Provides day-to-day supervision to a team including reviewing work, coaching on performance, coordinating activities, checking on quality and work progress; generally managing within one account, or multiple small accounts
  • Evaluates information and leverages experience to identify and solve on-going or complex problems
  • Requires understanding of the industry, processes, procedures and systems within own and related areas

Requirements

  • Proven track-record of successfully seeking out and curating new business relationships and/or solutions; developing solutions using new or existing processes
  • Experience building team, providing mentorship and navigating how to manage up/down/ laterally (e.g., ability to navigate and be effective with multiple personalities)
  • Intermediate knowledge of technology or measurement ad tech solutions, including platforms
  • Intermediate knowledge and skills in data analysis
  • Confident collaborating with others
  • Experience with Project / Account Management
  • Advanced communication skills; clear and succinct communication

Preferred

  • Advanced ability to anticipate, recognize and clearly define problems using various techniques to systematically analyze, weigh alternatives and propose solutions
  • Experience with managing existing business relationships, partnerships, and alliances internally and externally
  • Ability to assess and rank issues and tasks in order of importance for taking action
  • Has gained prior experience in actual situations to recognize recurring meaningful components
  • Applies a solid foundation to varying situations
  • Applies advanced knowledge and perceives deviations from the normal pattern

Benefits

  • We offer a Total Rewards package that includes medical and dental coverage, 401(k) plans, flex spending, life insurance, disability, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and paid family benefits to support you and your family.
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KINESSO

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KINESSO is the technology-driven performance marketing agency that sits at the very heart of IPG Mediabrands, providing actionable growth for both our agency partners and clients. We turn ‘action’ into ‘outcome’ for our clients, leveraging our unique optimization, analytics, AI, and experimentation capabilities. KINESSO has brought together the collective power of what was formerly Matterkind, Reprise, and Kinesso under one collective entity that will serve as the most powerful delivery engine in the industry. We have extensive offerings spanning across performance marketing and data and technology. Fueled by a deep understanding of consumer behavior, we offer an end-to-end engine of planning and optimization while also delivering on data-driven strategy for social platforms, actionable growth in e-commerce, and creating curated marketplaces specific to each client's function and needs. The company has more than 6,000 employees operating in more than 60 countries. Learn more at KINESSO.com.

Founded in 2009
New York, New York, USA
3.4K employees (872 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
71% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
39.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40%
Direct
44.9%
Referral
9.2%
Social
3.7%
Paid
1.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
791 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
10

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