Media Director

El Segundo, CA (On-site)

$121K/yr – $186K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 10 days ago

Job Summary

Own and lead cross‑disciplinary media planning initiatives, shaping integration across Strategy, Creative, and Account Services while leveraging analytics and partnerships to drive innovative, data-informed campaigns.

  • Own end-to-end program development from idea to execution
  • Collaborate across channels and senior media leadership to align funding and implementation
  • Educate teams on new creative units and best practices

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with peers across the agency, specifically, to advance creativity in media planning product, integrate, and align with Strategic Planning, Creative, and Account Service and partner those inputs with thoughtful media insights and programs
  • Work across the entire marketing plan, have a seat at the table with all other media disciplines, and advocate with the media client to ensure these campaign executions happen
  • Leverage all existing media and engagement partnerships and, when aligned with the ideas platform, maximize their value’
  • Understand and educate both media and creative teams on new creative units, when & how to use it, apply best practices
  • Partner with our Analytics teams to properly identify best practices and efficient marketing solutions
  • Interface with the media client and be a dedicated resource available for both the product and media team
  • Collaborate and align directly with senior level media team to implement across media channels, and identify funding solutions for related media ideas and programs

Requirements

  • 10+ years of integrated multi-media planning skill set, including an understanding of ALL media channels & buying approaches (TV, Radio, Print, Out of Home, Search, Social, Events, Sponsorships, Programmatic, New Technologies, etc.), and proven experience developing integrated programs or big concepts from idea to execution and data application from audience insights to media strateigies. Experience in Earned and Shared Media is a definite plus, along with knowledge of influencer marketing as well as culture trends.
  • Leadership: A charismatic leader to whom people are naturally drawn – instill a ‘nothing is impossible’ confidence alongside media knowledge of ‘what it takes to get it done’
  • Business thinker: Understands the clients business and will contribute in a meaningful way
  • Strategic Vision: A big-thinker with a strategic mindset who thinks in terms of business, brands and ideas, not just media.
  • Creativity: Someone who can contribute creative content and contextual ideas at the highest level, inspiring confidence in our media team.
  • Team Player: Someone who can check their ego at the door and fit into the Saatchi culture.
  • Presentation and Writing Skills: Multimedia presentations are always integral to our business presentations; with an ability to deliver smart thinking in the boardoom is key.
  • Proven experience in a leadership role – inspiring cross-decipline teams, client leadership
  • Automotive experience beneficial, Major brand/Large budget experience is required
  • An ideal candidate will be a self-starter with natural curiosity, comfortable in the unknown, and a strong communicator.

Benefits

  • Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent. Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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We Are Saatchi. We’re a crowd of curious thinkers, leaders, and doers. We’re dog-lovers, beach-walkers, deep-fried devotees and boundary-pushers. We firmly believe that with a childish sense of wonder, the most cutting-edge technology and an openness to embrace the new, we can imagine the impossible and prove it is totally within our reach. With offices in Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York we are brought together by a passion for creating unparalleled strategies, unexpected breakthrough ideas, and exceptional advertising.

El Segundo, California, USA

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$121K/yr – $186K/yr

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