Senior Director, Digital Activation

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $230K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Lead Digital Activation for an entertainment client, owning end-to-end channel strategies across search, social and programmatic, while guiding design, activation, measurement, and cross-functional partnerships.

  • Own campaign design, setup and optimization with strong in-platform best practices.
  • Mentor and manage a large, multi-market activation team and drive career growth.
  • Collaborate with Integrated Planning, Strategy and MarSci to test, learn and report insights, and manage budgets and governance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Extensive understanding of all major digital biddable platforms, product offerings and their respective capabilities within programmatic, search and social.
  • Deep understanding of in-platform campaign setup and proven excellence within hands-on-keyboard (activation) nuances and best practices across all biddable platforms and ad-serving operations
  • Ensures highest levels of team performance and thought leadership within specialist divisions (search, social, programmatic, ad-ops and tagging), including creating and circulating POVs
  • Develops and maintains strong relationships with key digital partners and keeps teams abreast of first to market opportunities, tech, data, and regulation updates
  • Key stakeholder in leading upfront deals and negotiations (JBPs)
  • Creating and driving best-in-class biddable digital media strategies that deliver against client objectives within search, social and programmatic channels for assigned client
  • Ability to quickly pivot and adapt within a fast-paced environment for a world-class entertainment client
  • Providing inputs and guidance around campaign design, including requirements for success and optimal use of biddable platforms
  • Working side by side with Integrated Planning team to ensure tight coordination of campaign setup, adjustments and optimization performance is efficient and effective
  • Working with Strategy team to understand goals, address client needs, and communicate results and insights back to clients

Requirements

  • 10+ years digital experience, including a minimum of 5 years’ experience managing, mentoring, and nurturing a diverse team in a fast-paced organization
  • Experience Within The Entertainment Category Preferred
  • Technical, in-platform and strategic understanding of programmatic, search and social buying and activation required.
  • Experience working with Ad Technology stacks and implementation processes
  • Strong knowledge of marketing technologies & tools (Web analytics, tag management, ad servers, attribution)
  • Strong analytical skills and understanding of entertainment industry KPI's
  • Exceptional analytics skills, and confidence acting on marketing data and insights
  • Comprehensive biddable platform, (search, social and programmatic), campaign setup knowledge across (but not limited to), Google (Google Ads, DV360, Amazon, Meta, TikTok, Snap)
  • Working knowledge of 3rd party verification tools, including IAS

Preferred

  • Experience Within The Entertainment Category Preferred
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Hearts & Science, an Omnicom Media Group agency, transforms data signals into meaningful connections between brands and consumers that drive exponential growth. Purpose-built for the world of personalized digital marketing and powered by the Omni marketing orchestration system, Hearts & Science draws on the vast expertise and resources of the OMG platform to deliver media solutions that enable brands to create and strengthen emotional connections with their consumers across all attention touchpoints, driving loyalty, share of mind and share of wallet. Launched in New York in 2016, Hearts & Science currently has 43 offices around the globe serving the world’s leading brands across a broad spectrum of categories - including automotive, biotech, beauty, CPG, entertainment, fashion, financial services, health & fitness, travel & hospitality, and telecom.

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