Media & Advertising Director (Hybrid)

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$131K/yr – $220K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate enterprise-brand and media strategies to drive cohesive, ROI-driven growth across channels, aligning cross-functional teams, agencies, and leadership around high-impact campaigns.

  • Own integrated campaigns, brand planning, and performance across media, with cross-functional alignment to deliver measurable business impact.
  • Lead budgets, agency partnerships, and post-campaign analysis to optimize ROI and brand health.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive business growth by shaping and leading a high-impact brand, advertising, and media strategy.
  • Prioritize investments, set performance expectations, and deliver measurable results.
  • Own development and execution of large-scale, integrated campaigns across media and creative from the client side.
  • Partner with enterprise leaders to align and integrate brand, advertising, and media strategies.
  • Act as an enterprise-level orchestrator, aligning cross-functional stakeholders and external partners to deliver cohesive, business-driven outcomes.
  • Drive brand awareness through ownership of brand strategy and strategic planning and execution of integrated brand campaigns; monitor brand health and identify opportunities for growth.
  • Lead and develop the Advertising and Media team, setting clear objectives, managing performance, and fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
  • Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with agency partners (creative and media), providing strategic direction, leading the briefing process, and ensuring effective execution.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration in a matrixed environment to align teams, ensure brand consistency across all customer touchpoints, and keep brand strategy at the core of decisions and execution across channels.
  • Oversee the creation and delivery of high-quality, on-brand creative assets, providing strategic feedback to ensure excellence and innovation in all creative output.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated effective leadership skills with experience mentoring and developing a team.
  • Demonstrated experience providing ROI driven business solutions by the development and execution of brand strategies, including management of large-scale multi touchpoint campaigns from concept to completion.
  • Demonstrated experience in brand marketing, marketing, advertising, with strong understanding of marketing concepts, strategies, practices and tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to be a strategic and collaborative leader.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading large, cross functional, complex projects.
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of both offline and digital media platforms.
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of the business issues of the insurance industry and of the organization.
  • Travel up to 25%.
  • Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits and wellbeing benefits.
  • Competitive 401(k) contribution and a pension plan.
  • Annual incentive program.
  • 9 paid holidays.
  • Paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees).
  • Student loan repayment program.
  • Paid-family leave available to employees and their families.
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American Family Insurance

For more than 90 years, American Family Insurance has built its reputation on sound principles. We strive to provide you industry-leading service, exceptional claims experience and products that build long-term relationships. This is accomplished by treating policyholders fairly in a helpful and caring way and making it easy and convenient to work with us. We know our customers like family.American Family Insurance thrives by conducting its business in accordance with the highest ethical standards and the law at all times. Integrity is part of our culture and always has been. The reputation we enjoy and trust-based relationships we have built with our customers are determined by the example set by management and the character and good judgment exercised at all levels of our organization. It’s a way of doing business that our customers have come to expect from us and a standard that we continue to live up to.1-800MYAMFAM (1-800-692-6326)

Founded in 1927
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
18K employees (486 in marketing)