Vice President

Plano, TX (Hybrid)

$149K/yr – $215K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic, cross‑functional media leadership to deliver client objectives through data-informed planning and strong team guidance.

  • Must-have: 12+ years in media planning/strategy and 7+ years of leadership experience
  • Own development of media strategy and translate it into tactical plans with cross-functional partners
  • Strong client relationships and data-driven storytelling across omnichannel media

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead media strategy development and holistic planning efforts to achieve planning efforts to achieve deliver on campaign and business objectives; where necessary, work with counterparts to apply strategic thinking across the portfolio
  • Build and maintain key client relationships across day-to-day levels and functions; serve as main point of contact across workstreams and processes
  • Ensure team’s ability to contribute to media recommendations based on a clear understanding of brand objectives and client business, supported by data and insights
  • Maintain working knowledge of media and category landscapes to inform client discussions, POVs, and strategic decision-making
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams (Investment, Analytics, and Research) ensure translation of media strategies to tactical plans, identify and apply campaign insights, develop learning agendas, and uncover business opportunities
  • Provide vision, direction, management and support across all levels of the team to ensure growth and delivery against client and company objectives
  • Act as a leader within the organization: proactively steer process, POVs, and collaboration across functions

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in media planning/strategy with progressive levels of responsibility
  • 7+ years of progressive leadership experience, demonstrating a strong capacity to understand/employ a balance effective management, hands-on teaching, and mentorship
  • Working experience across all media types (omnichannel, brand/performance, national/local, shopper, etc.)
  • Appropriately balancing participation in the day-to-day with providing leadership to the team
  • In line with changing client priorities, ability to adapt resources, approach, and work outputs quickly while ensuring executional excellence
  • Exceptional communication skills: you can make the complex simple when sharing information; you can tell a story through a presentation; you can speak clearly and with authority to galvanize those around you
  • Ability to understand and translate 1st and 3rd party data/results into viable strategic outputs
  • Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills; when presented with a challenge, develops an effective solution and implements it promptly

Benefits

  • 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
  • Medical and voluntary benefits to freelancers and temporary employees
  • Publicis medical and voluntary benefits eligibility after 90 consecutive calendar days
  • Publicis 401(k) Plan eligibility after 1,000 work hours in a consecutive 12-month period
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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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