Manager, Commerce & Retail Media, New Stream Media

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$54K/yr – $83K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 18 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end retail media and advertiser relationships, shaping strategic plans, translating objectives into actionable media programs, and guiding cross-functional activation and optimization.

  • Lead strategic partnerships with advertisers and internal teams to drive long-term growth
  • Translate business objectives into integrated media strategies and activations across retail channels

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a primary strategic partner across assigned advertiser and stakeholder relationships, building trust, understanding business priorities, and identifying opportunities for long-term growth.
  • Develop and oversee retail media strategies aligned with advertiser objectives, campaign KPIs, and broader business goals.
  • Translate advertiser objectives into actionable media plans across relevant retail media channels, platforms, and solutions.
  • Provide subject matter expertise across retail media, commerce, eCommerce, digital media, and performance marketing.
  • Analyze campaign and business performance to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and actionable optimization recommendations.
  • Translate data and campaign results into compelling insights, strategic recommendations, and clear performance narratives for advertisers and stakeholders.
  • Partner closely with activation and operational teams to ensure campaigns are launched, managed, optimized, and delivered accurately and efficiently.
  • Maintain hands-on responsibility for campaign activation and execution as needed, balancing strategic leadership with day-to-day account needs.
  • Serve as an escalation point for complex campaign, advertiser, platform, or business challenges, bringing together the right teams to drive resolution.
  • Build strong relationships across advertisers, agencies, technology partners, media platforms, and internal cross-functional teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Analytics, or a related field preferred.
  • 4–6+ years of experience in retail media, commerce media, eCommerce, digital advertising, paid search, programmatic media, or performance marketing.
  • Experience working with retail media networks, retailers, agencies, consumer brands, or CPG advertisers strongly preferred.
  • Experience managing complex advertiser relationships and translating business objectives into actionable media strategies.
  • Strong understanding of retail media networks and the broader commerce ecosystem, including areas such as onsite media, offsite media, paid search, display, programmatic, social, and measurement.
  • Strong understanding of digital advertising fundamentals, campaign activation, optimization, measurement, and performance marketing.
  • Proven ability to build trusted relationships with advertisers, agency partners, media platforms, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to identify growth opportunities, navigate ambiguity, and develop solutions to complex business challenges.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn campaign and business data into clear, actionable recommendations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, including the ability to communicate complex information to different audiences.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
  • Life insurance,
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
  • 401k,
  • Flexible paid time off,
  • At least 15 paid holidays per year,
  • Paid sick and safe leave, and
  • Paid parental leave.
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Salaries

Posted range

$54K/yr – $83K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Retail Media median pay in the United States

$105K/yr

Most pay falls between $84K and $150K. Based on 487 salaries.

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