Media Supervisor

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate strong knowledge of the full media landscape — digital and traditional — and apply it to build plans that are strategically sound and defensible
• Set the standard for how planning tools are used on the team: MRI/Simmons, GWI, YouGov, Commspoint, SimilarWeb, and MediaRadar should be used with rigor and translated into clear strategic insights, not just used to generate outputs
• Lead the media billing and workflow processes, ensuring timely and accurate budget management from the team. You own getting the billing work done flawlessly
• Serve as the team's internal expert on publisher and media marketplace dynamics, and emerging opportunities
• Review, quality-check, and guide the work of Media Coordinators, Media Planners, and Sr. Media Planners to ensure accuracy, strategic alignment, and a consistently high standard of output
• Own the development of media plans for assigned accounts, including the initial audience, channel mix, and budget allocation – with everything laddering up to the media strategy
• Lead the RFP process for partners and publishers, including identifying the short list and providing direction to partners on deliverables
• Contribute to media strategy development in a meaningful way – identify the insights that lead to a strategy, define channel roles that ladder up to the strategy and how those channels can be used strategically
• Use audience data, planning data, and performance data to identify insights and draw actionable conclusions
• Identify new and emerging media opportunities and bring forward proactive recommendations that demonstrate Shipyard's value beyond the day-to-day

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship.
• The candidate must live in San Diego or be able to commute to the San Diego office once per week.

Benefits

• Open PTO
• 40 hours of paid sick time (annually)
• Flexible work hours and remote work
• Paid holidays + holiday closure between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• 401k program with employer matching
• 6 weeks paid parental leave
• Employee bonus referrals
• Dog-friendly offices