Senior Director, Digital Activation

Burbank, CA (Hybrid)

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

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead Digital Activation for a major entertainment client with cross-channel ownership, budgets, and multi-team collaboration.

  • Must-have: 10+ years in digital roles with 5+ years of people leadership and mentoring.
  • Standout: Manages 25+ external partners and multi-market teams with budget responsibility.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Extensive understanding of all major digital biddable platforms, product offerings and their respective capabilities
  • Deep understanding and proven excellence within hands-on-keyboard (activation) nuances and best practices across all biddable platforms and ad-serving operations
  • Ensures highest levels of 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
  • 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
  • Implementing Business Intelligences tools and new capabilities (e.g., new supply & data sources, new media measurement techniques, etc.)

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 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

Benefits

  • Health, vision, dental insurance; 401(k); Healthcare Flexible Spending Account; Dependent Care FSA; vacation, sick, personal days; paid parental and medical leave; STD/LTD

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