Senior Director, Digital Activation & Paid Social (Entertainment)

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

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

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end digital activation for large entertainment accounts, balancing platform mastery with budget ownership and cross-functional syncing across planning, strategy and MarSci.

  • Platform leadership: set the activation playbook across search, social and programmatic with constant POVs and best-practices
  • Team and stakeholder ownership: mentor a large cross-market team, govern budgets, and drive upfront deals with partners

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's KPI's

Preferred

  • Prior experience leading large cross-functional teams across multiple markets
  • Familiarity with Omni marketing orchestration system or Omni Intelligence Platform

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • vision insurance
  • dental insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
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Omnicom Media, the media services division of Omnicom Group Inc., designs ecosystems for growth. Powered by the Omni Intelligence Platform, Omnicom Media connects best-in-class capabilities that enable our full-service media agencies OMD, Initiative, PHD, UM, Hearts & Science and Mediahub to deliver more relevant and actionable consumer experiences, more productive and proactive client experiences, and more collaborative and rewarding talent experiences for the more than 40,000 people serving the world’s leading brands in Omnicom Media agencies around the globe.

Founded in 1996
New York, Iowa, USA
14K employees (3,943 in marketing)
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Referral
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