Senior Director/Managing Director, Paid Media + Partnerships

Responsibilities

• Lead complex paid media engagements and serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior clients.
• Proactively bring new media categories, products, partnerships, and emerging opportunities to clients, expanding their understanding of what's possible and challenging conventional approaches to reaching and influencing audiences.
• Translate a rapidly changing media landscape into clear recommendations, connecting audience behavior, platforms, data, measurement, and emerging opportunities to client objectives.
• Set the standard for media strategy and execution, ensuring our work is both innovative and grounded in what drives results.
• Lead and develop senior members of a multi-functional 50+ person Paid Media + Partnerships team across offices + remote
• Establish clear expectations, accountability, and high standards for the teams and client work you oversee.
• Partner with Operations and department leadership on capacity planning, staffing, resource allocation, and team development.
• Maintain a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement, encouraging teams to challenge existing approaches and turn new ideas into better ways of working.
• Drive operational efficiency, improving workflows and processes to deliver high-quality work more effectively as the practice grows.
• Identify opportunities for new services, products, partnerships, and capabilities that strengthen BPI’s Paid Media + Partnerships offering and create new opportunities for the firm.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in paid media, digital media, integrated marketing, political media, public affairs, or a related field, including significant experience in a senior leadership role. Experience in public affairs, corporate reputation, or political campaigns strongly preferred.
• Deep strategic and tactical expertise across modern paid media, with the ability to advise senior executives while understanding how campaigns are planned, bought, optimized, and measured.
• Demonstrated experience leading large and complex client engagements and serving as a trusted advisor to senior and executive-level clients.
• Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and a willingness to challenge the status quo while maintaining a high bar for quality and client outcomes.
• Strong understanding of the current political, media, technology, and cultural landscape and how those forces shape paid media strategy.
• Ability to operate with a high level of organization and precision while leading multiple teams, clients, and workstreams simultaneously.

Benefits

• BPI offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) program with employer match up to 4%, generous time off for vacation, $50 monthly phone reimbursement, unlimited sick time, and 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents. BPI’s benefits prioritize employee wellness and progressive support to our diverse workforce.