Associate Director, Media

Atlanta, GA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid media leadership and cross-functional alignment for a digital media team, focusing on strategy, activation across channels, and client storytelling.

  • Own media plans and activation across all channels (CM, SA360, Google, Meta, LinkedIn).
  • Must-have: 6–8 years in digital media with 2+ years in management.
  • Standout: strong client storytelling and cross-functional leadership.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Live and breathe paid media
  • Be the main media point of contact for clients: clearly and simply articulate strategy and establish trust
  • Present recommendations to clients and internal teams with the ability to change the narrative to connect to each audience and enable decision making (an internal account person vs. day-to-day client vs. client CMO)
  • Collaborate in managing client objectives, target audiences, and desired outcomes, and clearly communicate these to the cross-functional team
  • Inform and utilize comms strategy inputs (competitive, consumer, category, etc.) to define role of platforms
  • Be an ambassador to and work seamlessly with other disciplines – specifically account, strategy, and creative
  • Lead your team in developing media plans across all channels, aligning with business and comms objectives, determining platform priorities, creative strategy, and measurement framework
  • Inspire quarterly testing roadmaps, be responsible for thought leadership, and evaluate alphas/betas/new partners
  • Leverage deep knowledge of tech and industry capabilities to help evaluate and evolve data/tech partners and lead clients through a changing digital landscape
  • Connect strategy to other non-paid channels (CRM, email, organic social, etc.) to encourage more insightful and intentional campaign planning and execution

Requirements

  • 6-8 years of digital media experience
  • 4 years of campaign management experience in Paid Social, Paid Search, and/or Programmatic
  • 2+ years of management experience
  • CPG and/or Healthcare experience preferred
  • Well-versed in tools including but not limited to partner UI’s (Google, DoubleClick, Adobe, Adelphic, TTD, Facebook/Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn)
  • Working knowledge of research tools like ComScore, Helixa, Nielsen, MRI/Simmons, etc.
  • Knowledge of asset trafficking to ensure accuracy and create reasonable timelines and expectations for deliverables
  • Basic understanding of site tagging and analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics
  • Expert in analyzing campaign data to consult on optimizations and adjustments within the campaign flights and translating learnings for upcoming campaigns
  • Experience working across various internal teams (Planning, Account, Creative, Production) to both understand the overall plan/moving pieces and push the work where needed

Preferred

  • Retail media exp and influencer program management experience is a plus
  • CPG and/or Healthcare experience preferred
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