Associate Director, Retail Media Search

Responsibilities

• Lead search and retail media strategy and activation across multiple retailer environments.
• Own keyword strategy, campaign setup, bidding, budgeting, optimization, testing, and performance reporting.
• Bring a strong understanding of specialty and department-store commerce, particularly how brands drive growth across retailer partners.
• Translate retail considerations such as inventory, product availability, demand, profitability, promotions, and seasonality into media recommendations.
• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders, retailer media partners, and internal teams.
• Identify opportunities to connect retail search with the broader commerce and media ecosystem.
• Use performance data to identify trends and translate them into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Lead cross-channel testing and optimization strategies.
• Manage and develop direct reports, helping strengthen both their activation expertise and strategic capabilities.
• Stay ahead of developments across retail media platforms, ad products, technology, and measurement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of retail media, commerce search, paid ecommerce, or biddable performance media experience, with substantial hands-on retail search experience.
• Experience working with specialty retailers and/or department stores.
• Hands-on experience managing retail media/search campaigns and optimizing toward business and performance objectives.
• Experience across retail media and commerce platforms such as Amazon Ads, Criteo, Walmart Connect, Pacvue, and Skai, or comparable platforms.
• Strong understanding of how inventory, profitability, product availability, promotions, forecasting, and demand influence commerce media decisions.
• Ability to look beyond media metrics and connect campaign performance to retail and commercial outcomes.
• Strong client-facing communication and presentation skills.
• Experience managing and developing direct reports.
• Ability to operate effectively across clients, retailer partners, platform partners, and internal teams.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.

Preferred

• Strongly preferred: experience supporting beauty, cosmetics, luxury, fashion, or another category heavily connected to specialty and department-store retail.
• Beauty retailer experience is especially relevant.

Benefits

• Our comprehensive benefits package reflects this commitment, including competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.