Media Buyer

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $100K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end paid media program, leading cross-channel campaigns from strategy through optimization and reporting, while partnering with analytics, creative, and strategy teams to maximize impact and ROI.

  • Lead execution and optimization across DV360, Meta, LinkedIn, and programmatic channels.
  • Translate campaign data into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
  • Manage budgets, pacing, and platform relationships to improve performance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Launch, manage, and optimize paid media campaigns across all digital channels, including, but not limited to, programmatic, social, and search media.
  • Collaborate with media strategy and planning, creative, stakeholder engagement, and analytics teams to ensure paid media efforts align with broader communications objectives and campaign strategies.
  • Manage campaign budgets, pacing, bid strategies, flighting schedules, and media investments to maximize performance and cost-efficiency.
  • Execute campaigns across platforms including Google DV360 suite, Meta, LinkedIn, programmatic exchanges, and other audience-relevant channels.
  • Monitor campaign performance and key metrics, including impressions, engagement, click-through rates, conversions, reach, frequency, and cost-per-outcome.
  • Conduct A/B testing and audience experimentation to improve targeting, messaging effectiveness, and campaign results.
  • Analyze campaign performance data and develop actionable recommendations that improve effectiveness and optimize media investments.
  • Coordinate with vendors, publishers, media partners, and platform representatives to support campaign execution and placement opportunities.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with media outlets, publishers, platform representatives, and strategic media partners to identify placement opportunities, negotiate value-added opportunities, stay informed of emerging offerings, and support successful campaign execution.
  • Work closely with data team to develop reports, dashboards, performance summaries, and executive-level insights that communicate campaign outcomes and strategic recommendations.

Requirements

  • Experience executing, optimizing, reporting, analyzing paid media campaigns across digital and social platforms.
  • Strong understanding of audience targeting, media planning, campaign optimization, and performance measurement methodologies.
  • Experience managing campaigns across platforms such as DV360, Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn, programmatic DSPs, or similar advertising ecosystems.
  • Curiosity in technology landscape and how AI is changing communications and media planning & buying.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret campaign performance data and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
  • Experience developing media reports, dashboards, performance summaries, and strategic insights for stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of attribution models, conversion tracking, audience segmentation, retargeting strategies, and digital marketing best practices.
  • Experience collaborating with communications, creative, analytics, stakeholder engagement, and strategy teams.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Strong organizational abilities with the capacity to manage multiple campaigns, budgets, and deadlines simultaneously.

Preferred

  • Experience supporting federal government, public affairs, stakeholder engagement, or mission-driven communications programs is preferred.
  • Familiarity with analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, Power BI, Tableau, or other reporting tools is preferred.
  • Relevant platform certifications, including Google Ads, Meta Blueprint, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, or similar certifications, are preferred.

Benefits

  • Family & parental support
  • 12 weeks’ full pay for Primary Carers and 6 weeks for Secondary Carers (after one year of service; return requirements apply for subsequent leave)
  • Applies to birth, adoption, and surrogacy
  • Up to 10 days’ paid fertility leave per year (5 per cycle)
  • 2 days’ paid leave for new grandparents
  • $2,500 annual interest-free parental loan
  • $6,000 interest-free fertility treatment loan
  • Healthcare & wellbeing
  • Choice of three medical plans (HSA at $0 cost; EPO 75% employer funded; PPO 65% employer funded)
  • 70% employer-funded dental and vision coverage
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M+C Saatchi Group

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M+C Saatchi Group is a global creative solutions company and the world’s largest independent creative network. We connect specialist expertise, powered by creativity, data and technology, to help build famous brands, solve the most complex business and societal challenges, and create and curate Cultural Power for our clients.

Founded in 1995
London, England, GBR
1.3K employees (474 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend
71% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$90K/yr – $100K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$66.5M
Last Raise
$66.5M
Post IPO Debt, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2021
    Post IPO Debt • $66.5M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
52.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.1%
Direct
45.7%
Referral
7.1%
Social
8.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.3K

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