Principal, Paid Media

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $105K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid media leadership across client programs, coordinating strategy, execution, and cross-functional teams.

  • Must-have: 4+ years in paid media strategy, planning, or execution.
  • Standout: Direct leadership across multiple client campaigns with launches, optimization, and reporting.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and oversee multiple client initiatives or programs from conception through execution.
  • Manages small work streams across multiple client accounts, ensuring timely delivery and coordination.
  • Work collaboratively across communications, data, creative, and paid advertising departments on behalf of clients; builds relationships within Precision.
  • Well-prepared for meetings—offers clear updates, anticipates questions, and proposes solutions and next steps.
  • Guides junior staff and interns, by reviewing and editing junior team members’ work and providing written and verbal feedback.
  • Owns assigned tasks (e.g. understanding how work ladders up to the larger goal, meets deadlines without reminders, organizes documents for team sharing, comfortable with a variety of tools and hard skills, can manage multiple projects at once, manages up, if necessary)
  • Meets deadlines set by client lead.
  • Produces clear, persuasive content with minimal guidance; regularly seeks feedback and reviews and edits junior team members’ work.
  • Proactively uses available tools and sources to research and apply sound judgment, ensuring work aligns with strategy and long-term goals.
  • Identifies potential issues or strategy gaps early, recommends adjustments, and supports teams in course-correcting.
  • Media Planning & Strategy: Develops media plans aligned with client objectives, audience insights, and strategy. Selects appropriate platforms and tactics for campaign goals.
  • Campaign Execution & Ad Operations: Launches and monitors campaigns across platforms. Continuously optimizes performance based on real-time data, budget tracking, and benchmarks. Owns finance ops process.
  • Reporting & Insights: Tracks performance metrics against KPIs and provides actionable insights. Translates media results into clear narratives for clients and internal teams.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional experience in paid media strategy, planning, and/or execution, ideally in an in-house or agency setting.
  • Ability to manage many different projects at once, setting up campaigns, trafficking, and monitoring performance.
  • Meticulous attention to detail.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work with colleagues across the agency.
  • Creative, energetic, detail-oriented and possesses an entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Analyze data and produce high quality reporting.
  • Articulate paid media strategy and decisions to assigned clients
  • Assist with development of media plans and independently develop media plans for small- to mid-size client campaigns.

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries
  • Annual bonus opportunity
  • Flexible hybrid remote/in office plan
  • Retirement plan with automatic 3% safe-harbor contribution from Precision
  • Healthcare coverage - medical, dental and vision with 90% of costs covered by Precision
  • Paid vacation and sick leave
  • Paid parental leave
  • Floating holidays
  • Professional development stipend
  • We are currently working in a hybrid model and require staff to work in the office 50% of the working days in the month.
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Precision

ACTION without PRECISION is CHAOSConectamos tecnologías de última generación con la industria regional.

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, CHL
1.6K employees (51 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
39.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.8%
Direct
33.1%
Referral
7.6%
Social
4%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
30 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5