Associate Director, Integrated Media Planning

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $125K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end, data-driven paid media for travel with audience-first focus, turning consumer insight into POVs and budgets while leading a team and aligning with creative for integrated experiences.

  • Own full-funnel paid media strategy and end-to-end experiences tied to consumer insights and business results.
  • Lead client POVs, presentations, and cross-functional coordination with creative, planning, and client teams.
  • Oversee budgets, QA media math, and resource prioritization in a fast-paced environment.

Job Description

  • The Associate Director has a strong appetite for new technology, emerging media, and culture, and always carries a strong point of view. They understand and embrace the passion that the consumer has for our clients’ brands. They orchestrate a strategic mix of audience-first solutions as the media landscape and technologies continues to evolve.
  • Serves as key point of contact for client teams to streamline requests and coordinate workstreams
  • Responsible for crafting data-driven, full-funnel paid media strategies and end-to-end experiences that deliver business results based on a deep understanding of the consumer
  • Develops client presentations and templates for POVs and recommendations
  • Coordinates with peers to ensure consistency in ways of working (process, tools & platforms, people)
  • Works in partnership with creative, OMG comms planning and client teams to marry creative and media strategies for an integrated and holistic consumer experience
  • Issues and presents paid media recommendations & POVs to increase efficiencies and effectiveness of media plans as indicated by performance reporting, learning agendas and consumer trends
  • Maintains positive team culture and working environment
  • Manages resources & helps team members prioritize work
  • Accountable for planning teamwork including QAing budgets and media math as relevant
  • 5-7 years of media planning experience with strong agency background
  • Worked with clients in the travel vertical, ideally with both national and local experience
  • Understanding of the sports landscape and integration opportunities
  • Track record of cultivating and maintaining trusted client relationships
  • Proven leadership ability and experience managing others; a strong desire and capability to grow and develop talent
  • Hands-on media practitioner with the ability to create and execute a full funnel, omnichannel approach to planning
  • Has a firm understanding on how to build and bring to life audience-first paid media strategies & the appropriate tools and inputs to support data-driven recommendations
  • Advanced knowledge of media fundamentals (all channels) with a connect to performance (brand and performance) and an ability to train and educate more junior team members
  • Expert level media math skills
  • Compelling and persuasive written and verbal communicator and presenter. Knows how to reach a compromise when necessary.
    • benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

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