Senior Director, Paid Media & Digital

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$165K/yr – $185K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale multi-channel digital strategy initiatives by leading strategic planning, audience targeting, measurement, and cross-team collaboration for client engagements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Be a subject matter expert offering strategic thought leadership building digital campaigns that are sophisticated, measurable, and actionable on key client engagements.
  • Analyze client’s digital strategies, lead strategic ideation session and partner with internal groups to create and deliver outcomes-focused solutions.
  • Build and execute strategic paid digital campaigns that are measurable and actionable.
  • Maintain an in-depth knowledge of current events, trends and changes within the digital space, and be able to incorporate this into best practices and recommendations into digital strategies for clients.
  • Create and articulate strategic narratives for new business pitches, internal teams and existing client engagements that delivers innovative, creative work to clients by advising on:
  • Designing strategies to move our targets and advance our client outcomes
  • Current tactics in audience segmentation and digital targeting
  • Data analysis to drive online advertising strategy and campaign measurement
  • Driving full funnel multi-channel audience engagement across social media, online/digital, video, email, web, and mobile platforms
  • Apply your experience to elevate strategic thinking across the organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in advertising, marketing, business, or similar area; graduate degree preferred
  • 7+ years of experience in digital planning/strategy with progressive levels of responsibility, agency experience is a plus.
  • 5+ years of previous management experience
  • Ability to anticipate and quickly assess continually changing client needs and adapt resources and strategies accordingly
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, organizational, interpersonal and analytical skills
  • Proven ability to strategically plan digital initiatives that align with clients’ strategic goals, KPIs and outcomes across a varying range of digital campaign budgets.
  • Expert level knowledge of paid advertising tactics, including but not limited to paid search, programmatic display, social, and video channels – In platform knowledge and campaign execution experience required.
  • Experience in marketing automation, conversion rate optimization, and advance audience targeting.
  • Experience translating highly technical information into presentable and digestible formats that educate and enlighten non-technical internal and external stakeholders via datastudio, hubspot, or other metrics reporting platform
  • Fundamental understanding of web and app development, mobile optimization, measurement and analytics, internet technology, UI/UX, content strategy, etc.

Benefits

  • 100% Company-paid Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401(k) contributions
  • Flexible, hybrid work arrangements (4 days in office)
  • 12 paid company holidays per year, up to 39 days individual paid time off
  • Winter break: Offices close the last week of the year
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Avōq

Avoq is an advocacy firm that helps companies, organizations and industries elevate ideas, build brands, and tackle reputation or policy challenges. We combine communications and advocacy to creatively shape narratives, manage brand reputation, influence national debates, and engage the audiences you need to reach. We embrace an ethos of creative advocacy — informed thinking, fresh perspectives, and unique solutions — to drive outcomes with the right audiences at the right time. We don’t start with an idea; we start with a hypothesis. But instead of relying on intuition, our network of more than 200 professionals expertly meets today’s complex communications and policy challenges with a thoughtful, evidence-based approach that blends data, insights, and creativity. We think unconventionally and examine problems from all sides to find the right solution for you.

Founded in 2024
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
200 employees (86 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.4%
Direct
50.5%
Referral
4.7%
Social
11.7%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~200

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
62 (31% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5