Senior Media Planner, Strategic Planning

USA (Remote)

$100K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-channel media planning and partner identification to balance budget, timing, and flighting for profitable growth across OTT, TV, radio, online video, social, and search.

  • Own end-to-end media strategy, channel mix, and flighting to drive client objectives and share penetration.
  • Translate audience and demographic trends into full-funnel media recommendations and measurements.
  • Collaborate with strategy, investments, and analytics teams to align planning with attribution and optimization outputs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Use audience, competitive, channel, and media planning tools and strong media acumen to help answer critical questions and make recommendations around the timing, size/budget, duration/flighting, and media mix of new and existing campaigns reflective of a client’s business strategy to advance its share/penetration and achieve profitable growth
  • Lead the identification of media partners/platforms, programming/networks opportunities that are best to suited for our client(s) and their unique needs, with the aim of maximizing the impact of their campaigns through a range of media platforms; predominantly OTT, Linear TV, Terrestrial Radio, Online Video, Social, Search and Digital Audio
  • Analyze demographic data and trends in consumption to ensure these are factored into our media recommendations. Interpret insights and data from tool suite to drive actionable full-funnel media recommendations around brand awareness, consideration, and brand performance
  • Leverage past offline media planning experience and agency case studies to inform the core planning metrics and benchmarks (i.e. the optimal reach, frequency, TRP/GRP, impressions to meet a given client objective)
  • Own conception and delivery of innovative, well-targeted business-building marketing solutions and serve as a key point of contact for the client in the development and approval of these plans
  • Operate cross-functionally with our investment team and our client strategy team to ensure that our planning outputs and recommendations are synced with our measurement capabilities and our buying footprint
  • Work in lockstep with Client Strategy & Analytics counterparts to understand our performance-based attribution and optimizations, arriving at a synergistic approach that combines these outputs with the future planning inputs for a blended campaign that hits our client’s KPIs
  • Partner with our Strategic Planning lead to serve as the agency liaison with our external planning tool partners. Help evaluate and roadmap the further development of Tinuiti’s suite of tools including evaluation, recommendations, and rationale for changes or enhancements

Requirements

  • 5+ years of media buying, planning & strategy experience with a focus on strategic and operational planning in US national market
  • Experience with cross-channel planning required, Including: linear TV, streaming video/audio, and overall digital media (search, social, display, etc)
  • Expert knowledge and use of planning and research platforms including Nielsen suite (Commspoint, Nielsen Media Impact, NPower, National TV View), Resonate, Comscore, Kantar
  • Understanding of companies/campaigns with KPIs that range from performance marketing to true brand awareness efforts
  • Strong POV of industry planning, insights, and competitive tools
  • Expert knowledge of the media landscape - both traditional and digital
  • Ability to build relationships with clients and peers (trusted advisor)
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, specifically around presentation story-telling
  • Ability to travel to onsite meetings 1-2 times a month at most

Preferred

  • Experience with cross-channel planning required, Including: linear TV, streaming video/audio, and overall digital media (search, social, display, etc)
  • Expert knowledge and use of planning and research platforms including Nielsen suite (Commspoint, Nielsen Media Impact, NPower, National TV View), Resonate, Comscore, Kantar
  • Understanding of companies/campaigns with KPIs that range from performance marketing to true brand awareness efforts
  • Strong POV of industry planning, insights, and competitive tools
  • Ability to travel to onsite meetings 1-2 times a month at most
  • A proven track record of leading progressive strategies, being a trusted advisor, growing businesses, training up, and mentoring talent
  • Superior presentation skills to communicate data-driven strategic direction and insights to clients, prospects, and teams

Benefits

  • At Tinuiti, we want to ensure you have the time you need to rest and recharge. That's why Tinuitians have an estimated 70 days off per year through our time off programs
  • Unlimited PTO: We encourage all Tinutians to Own their Offline by utilizing our unlimited PTO by working with your Manager to ensure all deliverables are met.
  • Holidays: We offer 17 paid holidays, if one of your religious holidays is not covered, please by all means take advantage of your Flex PTO!
  • Flex Fridays: Meetings are minimized and all Tinuitians have the option to start their weekend early at 1pm local time.
  • Owning Our Offline: Clients are informed and all offices will be closed for 3 total weeks throughout the year to give everyone the chance to truly unplug.
  • Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability, Flex Spending Accounts
  • Retirement: Match up to 4% of your contributions at 100% with immediate vesting
  • Perks and Wellness: Fringe, Forma, Thankful giving, Equity
  • Learning and Development: Bravely coaching session, Mentor program and more
  • Unlimited PTO: At Tinuiti, we believe you deserve time to rest, recharge, and enjoy life unplugged. When you prioritize time for yourself, you're able to bring your best self to work. That’s why we offer unlimited paid time off, a fully remote environment, and flexibility to take the time you need, when you need it. On top of that, we provide 20 paid holidays, including multiple long weekends, to ensure you have dedicated time to step away and disconnect. We're proud to offer above-industry standard work-life balance, consistently rated as one of the most loved benefits by Tinuitians year after year.
  • Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability, Flex Spending Accounts
  • Retirement: Match up to 4% of your contributions at 100%
  • Perks and Wellness: Fringe, Forma, Unlimited Telemedicine and Teletherapy available at no cost, Thankful giving, Equity
  • Parental Leave: Birthing parents receive 16 weeks of leave with 100% pay (partners 12 weeks) after the birth or adoption of a child.
  • Learning and Development: On-demand learning, mentorship program, leadership and management development programs and resources
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Tinuiti

Tinuiti is the largest independent full-funnel marketing agency in the U.S. across the media that matters most, with $4 billion in digital media under management and more than 1,200 employees. Built for marketers who demand growth and accountability, Tinuiti unites media and measurement under one roof to eliminate waste—the biggest growth killer of all—and scale what works. Its proprietary technology, Bliss Point by Tinuiti, reveals the truth around growth and waste, and how to capitalize on it. With expert teams across Commerce, Search, Social, TV & Audio, and more, Tinuiti delivers measurable results with brutal simplicity: Love Growth. Hate Waste. https://tinuiti.com/.

Founded in 2004
New York, NY, US
1.2K employees (353 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
92.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$8.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.8%
Direct
43%
Referral
8.2%
Social
1.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
303 (26% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
13

Funding

Last Raise
Debt Financing, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2019
    Debt Financing

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