Associate Director, Media

Newton, MA (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media strategy and channel mix that translates brand and business goals into measurable campaigns.

  • Own the strategy across social, video, CTV, and audio with clear ownership of objectives and metrics, including brand lift and trial performance.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with Creative, Insights, and Influencer teams to turn priorities into actionable media plans.
  • Ensure measurement rigor with frameworks like Marketing Mix Models and Brand Lift, plus robust attribution and data integrity across partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of campaign-specific media strategies aligned to brand and business objectives.
  • Partner closely with Creative, Insights, Influencer & Partnerships teams to translate business priorities into effective media plans.
  • Evaluate media channel investments and recommend budget allocations to drive awareness and trial of Spindrift beverages.
  • Ensure media plans balance short-term performance objectives with long-term brand growth.
  • Own performance measurement and analytics across all paid media channels (eg: social, digital, CTV, audio), including development of actionable insights and recommendations for optimizations
  • Maintain reporting frameworks, dashboards, and scorecards to track campaign performance against business objectives, KPIs, and media investment goals.
  • Partner with media agencies, platform representatives, and internal stakeholders to ensure accurate campaign tracking, tagging, and data integrity.
  • Partner with analytics and insights teams to strengthen measurement frameworks and attribution approaches, including frameworks such as Marketing Mix Models, Brand Lift studies and Incrementality testing.
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day lead for the media agency relationship.
  • Establish clear goals, deliverables, timelines, and performance expectations for agency partners.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in media planning or media strategy (either client or agency side)
  • Expertise across media channels including paid social, online video, programmatic, search, audio and connected TV.
  • Fluency in paid media analytics, with the ability to conduct hands-on, in-platform analysis and translate findings into concise, executive-level performance reporting.
  • Ability to (1) synthesize complex datasets into clear, concise insights and recommendations and (2) create executive-ready summaries and presentations that communicate performance, learnings, and future recommendations.
  • Experience managing external media agencies and holding partners accountable to reporting and optimization, as well as business outcomes.
  • Track record of identifying and executing successful media partnerships and sponsorship opportunities.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills.
  • Experience within consumer-packaged goods, food & beverage, retail, or consumer brands preferred.

Preferred

  • Experience within consumer-packaged goods, food & beverage, retail, or consumer brands preferred.

Benefits

  • The opportunity to shape the trajectory of a fast-growing, beloved brand at the forefront of health and wellness movement.
  • A collaborative, entrepreneurial, and mission-driven culture.
  • Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
  • Position is a hybrid role (4 days in office, 1 day remote) based out of our Newton, Mass headquarters
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with an employer contribution rate of 80% towards monthly premiums, regardless of plan type selected
  • Company-paid life insurance, and a 401k retirement savings plan with a company match
  • Monthly cell phone allowance
  • Annual allowances for personal use of Spindrift product, health and wellness, professional development, and social justice education
  • Voluntary additional life insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance
  • In addition to any paid leave benefits required by regulation, the company provides paid parental leave, vacation, sick, personal, bereavement, community service, and holiday time
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Spindrift

Spindrift is a full-service digital agency that specialises in the Oracle CX Cloud to deliver solutions focused on business outcomes for customer-centric organisations. We build and perfect digital experiences for customer acquisition, retention, and growth by leading board-level marketing and transformation conversations.Spindrift offers a full-service integrated approach with Enterprise Architecture, Experience Design, UI Engineering, Business Consulting, Testing Services and Application Support.Spindrift is a wholly owned part of DigitasLBi. Our heritage in Oracle Commerce delivery allows us to design, enable, and accelerate digital commerce through customer experiences built on the Oracle CX Cloud platform.OSG (Oracle Solutions Group) - We have partnered with DigitasLBi and Oracle to launch a dedicated digital practice OSG (Oracle Solutions Group). OSG enables customer centricity by joining up data, media and platform in a single agency. The agency is an Oracle Platinum Partner and the Centre of Excellence for Oracle within Publicis Groupe. Talent - We recruit and retain intelligent, motivated people who will grow with us. Our work environment is unique. Employees have the freedom and autonomy to shape their roles while getting all the tools and support needed to succeed. We strive to create a fun, relaxed, and sociable environment where ideas are nurtured and innovation is the key to our success.Twitter: @spindriftgroup

Founded in 2007
London, England, GBR
14 employees (2 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
221.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.2%
Direct
42.7%
Referral
7.4%
Social
6.8%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~14

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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