Sr. Associate Manager, Precision Media

Irvine, CA (Hybrid)

$122K/yr – $138K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own and manage the end-to-end paid media strategy for a loyalty program, driving new user acquisition, engagement, and retention across cross-functional teams.

  • Lead cross-functional campaigns with agencies and internal teams to align on goals and execution.
  • Optimize measurement, attribution, and budget to maximize loyalty metrics.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign Strategy & Execution: Partner with internal team leads to design, execute, and lead targeted, integrated paid media campaigns that drive new user acquisition, customer recovery, app engagement, and retention.
  • App Growth Initiatives: Collaborate with the Digital Product and Product teams to develop app download campaigns, leveraging compelling messaging to expand the known user base and increase digital transactions.
  • Audience Orchestration: Oversee first-party audience orchestration across ad platforms, ensuring customer segments (e.g., New, Lapsed, Retention) are accurately targeted, refreshed, and suppressed.
  • Agency & Partner Leadership: Lead agencies of record and external media partners to build integrated media plans, gather campaign inputs, and align on go-to-market strategies.
  • Cross-Functional Orchestration: Oversee end-to-end project management to fuel media campaigns and plan execution across internal departments, including Brand, Creative, Digital, Insights, and Legal.
  • MarTech & Attribution: Partner with the MarTech team to ensure proper tracking infrastructure, deep-linking, and attribution models are flawlessly executed across all digital media touchpoints.
  • Testing & Innovation: Establish structured, customer-led media tests and test-and-learn scenarios to continuously innovate, accelerate performance, and create first-to-market opportunities for disruptive Loyalty campaigns.
  • Optimization, Reporting & Budgeting: Oversee ongoing optimization efforts to maximize media plan efficiency. Manage and track the Loyalty media budget—ensuring accurate forecasting, optimal fund allocation, and efficient media pacing—while leading regular reporting on customer acquisition and retention efforts.

Requirements

  • Experience: 6+ years of customer-led media experience (agency, AdTech, or client-side).
  • Media & Channel Strategy: Proven track record in cross-channel media planning and buying across digital channels; deep expertise in Paid Social, Programmatic, Search, and App Performance Marketing (App Install campaigns) is a plus.
  • Loyalty & Data Strategy: Experience leveraging first-party data or Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) to build advanced audience segmentation and suppression strategies.
  • Campaign & Offer Optimization: Creative yet strategic approach to campaign management with success in split testing, conversion rate optimization (CRO), and designing media-supported promotional frameworks, offers, or gamification elements that drive repeat behavior.
  • Measurement & Analytics: Highly analytical thinker focused on data-driven marketing and familiar with key loyalty performance metrics, including Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), retention rates, churn reduction, and purchase frequency. Understanding and knowledge of MMP platforms like AppsFlyer is a plus.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Expert collaborator with the ability to influence, drive efficiency, and lead change across diverse teams (including Brand, Insights + Analytics, Creative, and Digital Product).
  • Project & Financial Management: Strong project management, organization, and budgeting skills with the ability to manage multiple time-sensitive projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • Communication: Excellent presentation and communication skills, with a proven ability to distill complex data and strategies clearly for stakeholders at all levels.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule (onsite expectation Tues, Wed, Thurs) and year-round flex day Friday
  • Onsite childcare through Bright Horizons
  • Onsite dining center and game room (yes, there is a Taco Bell inside the building)
  • Onsite dry cleaning, laundry services, and carwash
  • Onsite gym with fitness classes and personal trainer sessions
  • Up to 4 weeks of vacation per year plus holidays and time off for volunteering
  • Generous parental leave for all new parents and adoption assistance program
  • 401(k) with a 6% matching contribution from Yum! Brands with immediate vesting
  • Comprehensive medical & dental including prescription drug benefits and 100% preventive care
  • Discounts, free food, swag and… honestly, too many good benefits to name
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Taco Bell

Taco Bell was born and raised in California and has been around since 1962. We went from selling everyone’s favorite Crunchy Tacos on the West Coast to a global brand with 8,200+ restaurants, 350 franchise organizations, that serve 42+ million fans each week around the globe. We’re not only the largest Mexican-inspired quick service brand (QSR) in the world, we’re also part of the biggest restaurant group in the world: Yum! Brands. Much of our fan love and authentic connection with our communities are rooted in being rebels with a cause. From ensuring we use high quality, sustainable ingredients to elevating restaurant technology in ways that hasn’t been done before… we will continue to be inclusive, bold, challenge the status quo and push industry boundaries. We’re a company that celebrates and advocates for different, has bold self-expression, strives for a better future, and brings the fun while we’re at it. We fuel our culture with real people who bring unique experiences. We inspire and enable our teams and the world to Live Más. At Taco Bell, we’re Cultural Rebels.

Founded in 1962
Irvine, CA, US
76K employees (1,009 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$122K/yr – $138K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$13.7M
Last Raise
$13.7M
Series A, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2022
    Series A
  • Nov 2006
    Debt Financing • $13.7M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$298.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
61.5%
Direct
33.1%
Referral
3.6%
Social
0.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~82.2K

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Sr. Associate Manager, Precision Media

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