Senior Vice President, Media Planning

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$180K/yr – $300K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead client strategy and multi-channel media activation for large accounts with a team, delivering growth and ROI.

  • Must-have: 12+ years in marketing/communications with progressive leadership and client management
  • Must-have: ability to generate 1P audience strategies translated into media activation
  • Standout: proven client presentations and influence to drive senior decisions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as a day-to-day point of contact and partner for assigned clients
  • Responsible for developing, implementing, and executing strategy to deliver on short- and longer-term goals (e.g., traffic, ROI, customer count, 1P audience growth, and brand metrics)
  • Support the spectrum of the client’s media initiatives, including vendor-centric, endemic and non-endemic and audience-led RMN omnichannel planning
  • Actively listen to Clients and continually identify opportunities to lead thinking
  • Team leader for Client interaction fostering positive relationships
  • Evaluates composition of a wide range of media vehicles to determine which would most effectively reach the target audience and deliver on traffic and performance goals
  • Effectively communicates and solicits agreement of best opportunities for Client
  • Ensure the quality of work for all Client deliverables
  • Supervising, training, and developing staff (managing workload, delegating, and managing projects and resources, performance management)
  • Develop process improvements and best practices to ensure consistency, flexibility, and efficiency resulting in solutions that meet or exceed Client expectations
  • Ability to cross sell interagency products and services
  • Collaborate with business intelligence/analytics, data and investment teams to ensure strategic plans are powered by campaign performance data + insight and marketplace opportunity
  • Lead and mentor a team

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred, preferably with a concentration in marketing, advertising, communications, business, sociology, or consumer insights
  • 12+ years of relevant experience with progressive levels of responsibility and business acumen in marketing and communications and team management
  • Demonstrated ability to generate 1P audience strategies that can be translated into effective media activation
  • Proven experience and success in presenting plans to Client and influencing top level Client decisions
  • Demonstrated critical thinking skill and strong problem-solving skills – navigates effectively through difficult issues, builds required consensus to drive business needs and results
  • Excellent leadership, management and motivational skills
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills – effectively presents formal POV internally and externally
  • Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and quantitative/analytical skills
  • Strong Client presentation skills and business writing skills
  • Demonstrated expertise in strategic planning and Client relations
  • Detail oriented and proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Critical assessor of talent – builds and motivates high performing teams
  • Able to direct long range planning and the development of programs to maximize organizational resources
  • Design and manage projects, resources, stakeholders, participants, and deadlines
  • High results orientation and able to effectively juggle and prioritize many competing demands – high tolerance to effectively manage change

Preferred

  • Nice-to-have list intentionally empty

Benefits

  • The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • 'Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
  • Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances
  • The benefits offerings listed are available to U.S. based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.
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Starcom

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With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With almost 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellanova, McDonald's, Novartis, Samsung, Visa, WK Kellogg Company and more.

Founded in 1936
Chicago, Illinois, USA
6.1K employees (2,084 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
59% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.1%
Direct
41.6%
Referral
9.1%
Social
4.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,983 (33% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
34

Funding

Total Funding
$57.1M
Last Raise
$43.2M
Series A, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Series A • $43.2M
  • Aug 2025
    Series A
  • May 2025
    Series A • $13.9M

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