Director, Video Investment

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$121K/yr – $174K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end video campaign management and team leadership across TV, OTT, and digital channels to deliver client results.

  • Own daily workflow and end-to-end campaign activation, maintenance, and post-buy recaps across the video ecosystem.
  • Must-have: 7+ years in related media with 4+ years of team management experience.
  • Standout: Leadership across cross-functional teams with data integrity processes and vendor relationships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Direct and manage the daily work flow of campaigns across the video eco-system (linear TV, FEP, VOD, OTT, Mobile, Connected TV, Addressable), including proposal development, campaign activation and maintenance, and post-buy recaps
  • Assume accountability and ownership of campaign execution for assigned client accounts
  • Review client deliverables for quality, ensuring that recommendations and work product are sound and viable
  • Own the development of strategic proposals, coordinating across teams to account for all relevant inputs
  • Manage, train, mentor, and develop a team
  • Understand and effectively communicate value proposition, technology, and processes as related to the growth of current and prospective agency accounts
  • Participate in forecasting exercises for senior management
  • Develop processes to ensure data integrity and implement across the agency
  • Maintain a strong understanding of the systems used such as Mediaocean/Prisma or other digital buying tools, Ad Servers/Verification, DSPs, Social Platforms, DMPs, and internal proprietary tools
  • Provide ideas and solutions for pain points/problems in processes; then work alongside internal and external teams to develop best practices, enhancements, and tools to improve these

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred, preferably with a concentration in marketing, advertising, communications, business, sociology, or consumer insights
  • 7+ years of total related media experience
  • 4+ years of team management experience with progressing responsibilities
  • Outstanding Leadership skills coupled with diplomacy (can work across and within multiple teams)
  • Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving abilities
  • Leadership ability to manage and matrixed team within the agency and matrixed clients; confidence to lead brand clients whose focus is product marketing vs. Media balancing competing priorities to manage projects successfully
  • Skillful negotiator in the Video space, especially in National Television
  • Able to leverage marketplace relationships for the client’s good
  • Keep current on the pulse of changing marketplace conditions (audience, sales offerings, programming, etc.) and be able to make insightful recommendations to clients
  • Ability to adapt to change, nimbly manage challenges and make quick decisions
  • Provide oversight to National Video spend allocations
  • Experience utilizing multiple media tools

Benefits

  • 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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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)
34

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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