Manager, Paid Media

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $140K/yrManager7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end paid media strategy and execution across social, programmatic, and video, driving performance and cross-team collaboration with agencies.

  • Lead planning, activation, and optimization of multi-channel paid media programs.
  • Translate objectives into measurable media KPIs and audience strategies.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the planning, activation, and optimization of paid media campaigns across social, digital video, programmatic, display, and other relevant channels.
  • Translate business and campaign objectives into clear media objectives, audience strategies, channel recommendations, and KPIs.
  • Partner with internal teams to integrate paid media into broader campaign activities.
  • Identify opportunities to use paid media to amplify Sony content, creator stories, partnerships, and brand initiatives.
  • Lead day-to-day relationships with Sony’s paid media agency, ensuring strategic alignment, strong execution, and accountability.
  • Review and challenge agency media plans, recommendations, audience strategies, and optimization approaches.
  • Monitor campaign pacing, performance, audience delivery, creative performance, and budget allocation.
  • Identify opportunities to optimize campaigns based on performance, audience behavior, creative effectiveness, and business priorities.
  • Ensure campaigns are executed accurately, efficiently, and in accordance with approved strategy and budgets.
  • Develop and maintain a test-and-learn agenda across audiences, creative, channels, formats, and media strategies, translating learnings into actionable recommendations

Requirements

  • 7 years of experience in paid media, digital marketing, media planning, or a related field.
  • Strong understanding of paid media strategy, planning, activation, optimization, and measurement across digital channels.
  • Experience developing and executing paid media strategies across Paid Social, CTV,OLV, programmatic, and other digital media channels
  • Experience managing media agency relationships, including reviewing media plans, budgets, performance, and recommendations.
  • Strong understanding of audience strategy, targeting, segmentation, first-party data, and digital media measurement.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze campaign performance and translate data into actionable insights.
  • Experience overseeing media investment and working with agency partners to optimize budget allocation across channels, audiences, creative, and campaigns to maximize impact.
  • Strong understanding of the relationship between media, creative, content, audience, and brand strategy.
  • Highly proactive and self-directed, with the ability to identify opportunities, anticipate needs, and take ownership of initiatives with minimal direction.
  • A strategic thinker who brings a point of view and proactively develops recommendations

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage with coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents, including access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits
  • Fertility benefits, including, surrogacy, and adoption assistance programs
  • Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children
  • Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
  • Short-term & long-term disability plans
  • Up to 12 weeks of paid parental and caregiver leave
  • 401(k) Plan with pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax options and company match with immediate vesting
  • Education assistance and student loan programs
  • Flexible Work Arrangements, hybrid work schedules
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$130K/yr – $140K/yr

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  • Jul 2024
    Post IPO Equity • $700M
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