Director, Media

Dallas, TX (Remote)

$121K/yr – $166K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own media strategy leadership for enterprise clients, guiding upstream thinking, audience planning, and cross‑functional execution that turns brand goals into concrete audience plans.

  • Growth Strategy & Analytics: Translate brand objectives into strategic media recommendations and audience insights, then drive business-case validation with internal teams.
  • Client Leadership & Collaboration: Lead day‑to‑day client interactions and nurture relationships to grow the client business.
  • Portfolio Enablement: Elevate strategic thinking across the portfolio, set learning agendas, and ensure timely, high‑quality delivery across engagements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Maintain an in-depth knowledge of current media industry news and brand business (current and historical perspectives) with a focus on upstream initiatives
  • Ensure the team delivers sound strategic media recommendations based on a clear understanding of brand objectives
  • Lead the team and day-to-day client interaction and build, maintain, and grow client relationships and client business
  • Apply their experience to elevate strategic thinking across the portfolio and set appropriate learning agenda elements
  • Write and deliver strategies and POV’s as well as oversee the translation of these strategies into the final audience recommendations/plans
  • Analyze client’s audience strategies and work with internal groups to lead business case development
  • Facilitate team building through collaboration, open communication, and focused project management to assure that assignments are executed in a timely manner
  • Provide vision, direction, management and support to individuals within the team to ensure their work aligns with our mission and goals
  • Demonstrate a deep technical understanding as well as problem solving and intervention when necessary

Requirements

  • 7-10+ years of multi-channel media experience, with an emphasis on digital media
  • 5+ years of management experience
  • Experience working on a large enterprise client team
  • Ability to strategically plan campaigns from audience determination, ability to best flight and execute campaigns to align with client's strategic goals and KPIs
  • Strong understanding of analytics to inform and validate planning and strategy
  • History of identifying media opportunities, presenting them to clients, and executing
  • Experience monitoring and recommending improvements to the entire media planning process
  • Ensuring people are adopting the best in class tools, techniques, systems to deliver effective media processes
  • Portfolio management of paid media for a large brand
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal along with visual storytelling), diplomacy, and relationship building and decision making skills with the ability to think creatively.

Benefits

  • 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
  • ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere
  • Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
  • Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances
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Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,719 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
13.5 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
215