Commerce Media Manager

Plano, TX (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $108K/yrManagerFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead day-to-day client relationships while driving strategic paid media programs, including developing search strategies, overseeing a team of analysts, and ensuring high-quality campaign execution and insights across retail media.

  • Lead client-facing recaps and strategy translation into media recommendations
  • Oversee optimization, testing and performance forecasts with data-driven rationale

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serving as a primary contact for day-to-day clients
  • Spearheading the development of search strategies and analyses for clients (e.g., keyword recommendation, day-parting, timing/scheduling strategy)
  • Oversee Sr Analysts and Analysts and ensure daily search campaign monitoring, optimization, reporting and testing
  • Establishing and driving paid shopper marketing best practices to assimilate across tactics and activations
  • Maintaining a level of quality assurance and accountability for delivering campaigns and executions with precision
  • Write and deliver media strategies, and overseeing the translation of these strategies into final media recommendations
  • Ensuring that media deliverables meet and align with client goals and objectives
  • Lead retailer and vendor RFPs, with attention to audience targeting strategy and use of best practices
  • Overseeing performance forecasts, budget allocations and providing data-based rationale for these recommendations
  • Prioritize teamwork and delegating responsibilities

Requirements

  • A four-year degree and 5 to 7 years of digital media experience, 4+ years of SEM/e-Commerce/Shopper Marketing experience
  • Prior experience managing direct report(s) preferred
  • Strong familiarity with the digital environment and a clear understanding of media planning and buying process Retailer priority is Amazon. Platforms: SKAI or Pacvue experience preferred)
  • Keen attention to detail and an analytical approach to achieving objectives
  • Solid quantitative and research skills, and proven data interpretation capability
  • Fluency with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
  • Excellent client presence and ability to lead discussions with internal and external leadership
  • Strong ability to understand client objectives and how they translate into search and media strategies
  • Excellent communication and writing skills—you’re poised, precise, and above all, kind when relating to others
  • Willingness to travel as needed – you’re open to new places, new faces and new ideas

Preferred

  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation

Benefits

  • The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.
  • Our Best-in-class Wellness And Benefits Offerings Include
  • 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
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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)
33

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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