Responsibilities

• Lead the execution and management of national podcast campaigns across host-read, announcer-read, and dynamically inserted placements
• Negotiate, place, maintain, and optimize media buys across active campaigns
• Monitor pacing, download delivery, spend, and campaign performance while proactively identifying optimization opportunities
• Manage revisions, makegoods, episode and show changes, and flight adjustments
• Coordinate talking points, host briefs, promo codes, vanity URLs, and live-read approvals with clients and publishers
• Ensure campaign documentation, airing verification, stewardship, reconciliation, and quality control are completed accurately
• Partner with Planning and Buying leadership to execute approved media plans and campaign strategies
• Provide marketplace intelligence, pricing insights, and show recommendations that support planning and investment decisions
• Evaluate show fit, audience composition, inventory availability, CPMs, and feasibility of proposed recommendations
• Support attribution, incrementality, and performance measurement initiatives, including promo code, pixel-based, and lift-study measurement

Requirements

• 5-8 years of media buying experience, including at least 3 years buying podcast or audio
• Experience managing national podcast campaigns across host-read, announcer-read, and dynamically inserted placements
• Strong understanding of media buying, stewardship, pacing, reconciliation, and campaign management
• Strong organizational, analytical, negotiation, and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple campaigns and deadlines simultaneously
• Agency experience preferred
• Experience with performance marketing campaigns and direct-response attribution (promo codes, vanity URLs, pixel-based attribution)
• Familiarity with Podscribe, Magellan AI, Veritone, Podtrac, AdsWizz, or similar platforms
• Experience mentoring junior team members