Responsibilities

• Lead brand media strategy and channel selection across multiple client accounts, ensuring narrative and channel choices connect directly to business objectives
• Partner with the Performance Media team to build every plan as one integrated system, aligned to a single business outcome
• Champion integration between Brand Media, Account, Strategy, and Creative teams throughout client planning and development
• Interrogate the client brief, evaluating whether it's asking the right questions and grounded in the right audiences and objectives
• Lead relationships and negotiations for custom media vehicles, sponsorships, franchise opportunities, and emerging partnership formats
• Develop thought leadership and market perspective applicable across clients, establishing a distinct FINN point of view
• Represent FINN's media expertise externally, including client presentations, new business pitches, panels, and industry platforms
• Lead new business planning for brand media, partnering with senior media colleagues on client retention
• Champion the use of AI and automation across planning, strategy development, and reporting
• Manage and develop the Brand Media team: interview, hire, delegate, mentor, conduct performance reviews, and recommend compensation decisions

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of media, brand strategy, advertising agency, client-side, or publisher-side experience
• Proven experience leading brand media strategy and channel planning across multiple accounts
• Experience across brand channel formats: premium video (linear/CTV/streaming), programmatic video and display (DSP), audio, OOH, brand partnerships, integrations, sponsorships, brand social, emerging media, and custom activations
• Experience managing significant client budgets and investment decisions
• Strong leadership experience, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career pathing for a growing team
• A track record of gaining trust through sound judgment, including under pressure or ambiguity
• Experience partnering with performance media counterparts to build genuinely integrated plans across brand and performance
• Experience collaborating across multiple disciplines, such as creative, strategy, SEO/GEO, web development, and PR, within a full-service agency or an integrated client-side marketing organization
• Strong new business pitch experience, from strategic ideation through proposal development and delivery

Benefits

• Competitive salary, health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Generous PTO policy, plus paid holidays
• Wellness stipend for physical and mental health programs