Responsibilities

• Agency leadership: Serve as the primary day-to-day partner to our media agencies. Set strategy direction, write clear briefs, run planning cycles and QBRs, and hold partners accountable for performance, optimization, quality, and business results.
• Plan interrogation: Review and challenge agency recommendations across every channel — TV, CTV, OLV, OOH, audio, social, search, programmatic. Catch weak rationale, frequency saturation risks, and budget misallocations before plans get approved.
• Budget stewardship: Own media budget pacing, forecasting, authorizations, and reconciliation in partnership with Finance. Monitor spend and delivery mid-flight, flag risks early, and drive reallocations when the data says to.
• Media strategy & planning: Lead annual, quarterly, and campaign-level planning with the agency. Make sure plans reflect our audiences, product moments, competitive pressure, and business goals — not just what's easy to buy.
• Measurement & accountability: Define campaign KPIs and measurement frameworks with the agency and our analytics team. Own wrap reports, drive a test-and-learn agenda (incrementality, brand lift, MMM as we scale), and go beyond CPMs and impressions to reach efficiency and cost-per-outcome.
• Executive reporting: Distill campaign and channel performance into clear recommendations for marketing leadership. Tell us what worked, what didn't, and what we should do differently — with numbers behind it.
• Cross-functional alignment: Partner with Brand, Growth, Creative, Product Marketing, Social, and Comms so media plans amplify what the rest of marketing is building, and so creative assets fit the placements we're buying.

Requirements

• 5+ years of media planning and strategy experience, either brand-side managing external agencies or at a media agency serving major consumer brands
• Demonstrated experience independently reviewing and challenging agency media plans, not just executing against them
• Experience managing multi-million dollar media budgets across concurrent campaigns, including pacing, forecasting, and mid-flight reallocation
• Fluency across the full channel landscape: TV/CTV, online video, OOH, audio/podcasts, paid social, search, and programmatic — you can evaluate rates, rationale, and audience fit in any of them
• Strong command of media measurement: reach and frequency, brand lift, incrementality testing, and marketing mix modeling
• Sharp analytical skills; you can work from raw campaign data to find performance trends and budget inefficiencies, and you're at home in Excel
• Strong stakeholder management across Finance, Analytics, Creative, and agency teams; you write briefs people can actually work from
• AI-native: actively using AI tools to speed up analysis, reporting, and planning work — you're not just aware of them, you're using them daily
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and at speed; you don't need committee consensus to make smart decisions

Preferred

• Experience at a high-growth consumer tech, B2C, or AI company
• Agency alumni who've made (or want to make) the move to the client side
• Experience standing up a media function or measurement framework from scratch
• Experience with OOH and large cultural-moment buys (sponsorships, tentpole events)
• A point of view on how AI is changing media planning and buying — and what most brands get wrong about it
• Active Replit user; you've built and shipped something with the product
• Based in or able to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area

Benefits

• 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
• 💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match ( US Only )
• ⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• 🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability
• 🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
• 🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
• 🚗 Commuter Benefits ( In-Office & US Only )
• 📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend
• 🧑‍💻 Autonomous Work Environment
• 🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement ( In-Office Only )