Media Strategy and Planning Lead

Menlo Park, CA (On-site)

$152K/yr – $213K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross channel media strategy for Public Affairs, turning audience insights and marketplace signals into integrated plans with clear testing and learning agendas.

  • Own multi channel media planning across digital, programmatic, and social to drive measurable outcomes.
  • Lead cross functional teams to translate industry trends into go to market media and measurement approaches.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead integrated channel strategy, planning, and execution for Public Affairs priorities across Meta’s owned and off-platform channels
  • Develop media strategies and plans grounded in clear objectives, audience, and marketplace insights to deliver measurable outcomes
  • Cross-functionally lead the team to provide thought leadership and strategic analysis to shape go-to-market media and measurement approaches
  • Define clear media briefs, including campaign parameters, audience and channel strategies, and testing/learning agendas
  • Leverage quantitative and qualitative insights, measurement models, and programmatic buying to develop, execute, and optimize media strategies
  • Maintain and integrate an understanding of the evolving media landscape, audience insights, competitive activities, and emerging platforms
  • Analyze performance, historical learnings, and business needs to distill actionable insights and optimization strategies
  • Partner across Global Media, Marketing, Decision Science, Market Insights, Creative, Communications, MarTech, and Agency teams to deliver integrated, high-impact work and advance capabilities
  • Enable connections between cross-functional teams and lead communications on media priorities to internal teams, agencies, and marketing leadership
  • Serve as a domain expert, incorporating industry insights, trends, and best practices

Requirements

  • 10+ years of managing large-scale consumer and/or public affairs campaigns within an agency or client organization
  • Demonstrated experience in influencing and aligning cross-functional stakeholders to drive timely decisions and execution against shared goals
  • Experience using media measurement and analytics to translate data into compelling strategies, perspectives, and optimizations
  • Demonstrated track record of leading campaign strategy development and translating strategy into actionable, data-driven plans that improve measurable return on investment
  • Experience in planning and executing integrated, multi-channel strategies and plans, including digital, programmatic, and social media
  • Experience presenting to executive stakeholders and leadership teams, with a focus on clear, concise communication
  • Experience navigating evolving priorities by defining structure, clarifying goals, and driving execution in environments with limited precedent

Preferred

  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Background in policy, public affairs, or highly regulated/sensitive cause-based marketing campaigns
  • Experience leading media strategy across multiple regions (US, EMEA, LATAM, APAC)
  • Experience collaborating with data science/analytics teams to shape measurement plans, learning agendas, and advanced testing frameworks (e.g., A/B testing)
  • Experience working closely with creative teams to integrate creative ideas with media strategy and channel selections
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