Associate Media Director, Paid Social & Programmatic

Power Digital; España; A distancia; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Power Digital in Spain is seeking an experienced Senior Paid Media Manager to lead end-to-end paid media strategies across multiple channels and client accounts. This role requires guiding a small team of Supervisors, aligning with Client Service Managers and the Group Media Director to drive measurable growth.

You will own testing, road-mapping, and optimization, while expanding programmatic capabilities and AI-assisted workflows. Remote work with US time-zone alignment is required.

Formación

• 6-8+ years of Paid Media experience.
• Experience managing multiple paid media accounts with large budgets.
• Experience with GA4, GA/GT methods and reporting.
• Strong client relationship management and reporting skills.
• Team management and staff development experience.

Responsabilidades

• Lead paid media strategy and client performance for key accounts.
• Oversee a team of media supervisors and develop their skills.
• Own all paid media strategy, road-mapping, and testing.
• Collaborate with Client Service Managers and the Group Media Director.
• Build programmatic vendor relationships across channels (CTV, display, native).
• Produce insights and client-facing reports.

Conocimientos

Paid media management

Team leadership

Client relationship management

Campaign strategy

Multi-channel advertising

Google Analytics/GA4

Reporting & analytics

Nova platform

Herramientas

Google Ads

Meta Ads

Programmatic DSPs

GTM/GA4

Excel

Descripción del empleo

Remote - Spain

Who We Are:

Power Digital is an AI-Native Growth Firm built at the intersection of world-class talent and proprietary technology. We help leading and emerging brands grow by combining deep vertical expertise, strategic thinking, and enterprise intelligence to drive measurable business outcomes.

For more than a decade, we have built our business around one belief: the best technology makes great people better. Our teams of strategists, creatives, analysts, and technologists use Omega, our AI operating system, to surface opportunities faster, investigate what is driving performance, and execute approved work with greater speed and precision. Behind Omega is Iris, our proprietary intelligence layer, built on years of real performance data, strategic frameworks, testing, and learnings from across our client portfolio. AI expands the capacity of our people to think, create, solve harder problems, and make better decisions. Human judgment, creativity, and accountability remain central to how we work.

As a people-first firm, we value diversity in backgrounds and experiences. We strongly believe our people and culture are key to our success. We partner closely with our clients as an extension of their teams, working across strategy, execution, and measurement to identify what is truly blocking growth and determine what to do next. Our culture is built on people who are curious, ambitious, accountable, and committed to delivering meaningful results for our clients and for one another.

At Power Digital, we believe the future belongs to teams that combine the best talent with the best technology. We are building that future today.

***Proficiency in spoken and written English at an advanced level is required for this role. *** 100% remote and US time zone working hours are required. A day in the life:

• Successful end-to-end management & strategic oversight of designated paid media accounts.
• Meet pacing & KPI requirements for held accounts, ultimately working to move the goal posts & set improved performance expectations.
• Own all paid media strategy, project ideation, road-mapping & testing, leading the team with confidence & direction.
• Manage a team of 2-3 Media Supervisors, who themselves may manage 1-2 others, guiding work, delegating tasks & working to develop their strategic & technical skillsets, and evaluating performance and sentiment through Power’s Nova platform.
• Work with Client Service Managers & the Group Media Director to identify client goals, priorities & efficiency requirements, ultimately improving Paid Media’s contribution to business success.
• Actively work to increase billing & channel support for existing media accounts & propose opportunities to expand media coverage for new accounts.
• Continually work to learn new strategies, test new platforms & expand Healthcare paid media offerings.
• Own and build out programmatic media vendor relationships, playbook, and strategies across channels like CTV, OLV, display, native, and more via open auction or private marketplace buys.
• Function as the primary point of contact and escalation both internally & externally for all ‘owned’ accounts, responsible for the performance of accounts.
• Generate reports, write insights, & communicate with the client for designated accounts.
• Responsible for the ongoing maintenance of held accounts, including but not limited to optimizations, structural updates, bidding methodologies, conversion types, and copy revisions.
• Full ownership of Paid Media strategy for assigned accounts, working with the Media Director as needed.
• Drive strategic ideation on all accounts, designing & adjusting campaign strategies to meet each client’s business goals (and internal objectives).
• Design & deploy tests in accounts on a monthly & quarterly cadence (structural, targeting, creative & messaging, conversion, etc).
• Continuously test, verify, and improve full-funnel structures.
• Helping to develop effective use of AI tools to streamline workflows and improve performance.
• Other applicable or related duties as assigned.

Responsibilities:

• Successful end-to-end management & strategic oversight of designated paid media accounts.
• Meet pacing & KPI requirements for held accounts, ultimately working to move the goal posts & set improved performance expectations.
• Own all paid media strategy, project ideation, road-mapping & testing, leading the team with confidence & direction.
• Manage a team of 2-3 Media Supervisors, who themselves may manage 1-2 others, guiding work, delegating tasks & working to develop their strategic & technical skillsets, and evaluating performance and sentiment through Power’s Nova platform.
• Work with Client Service Managers & the Group Media Director to identify client goals, priorities & efficiency requirements, ultimately improving Paid Media’s contribution to business success.
• Actively work to increase billing & channel support for existing media accounts & propose opportunities to expand media coverage for new accounts.
• Continually work to learn new strategies, test new platforms & expand Healthcare paid media offerings.
• Own and build out programmatic media vendor relationships, playbook, and strategies across channels like CTV, OLV, display, native, and more via open auction or private marketplace buys.
• Function as the primary point of contact and escalation both internally & externally for all ‘owned’ accounts, responsible for the performance of accounts.
• Generate reports, write insights, & communicate with the client for designated accounts.
• Responsible for the ongoing maintenance of held accounts, including but not limited to optimizations, structural updates, bidding methodologies, conversion types, and copy revisions.
• Full ownership of Paid Media strategy for assigned accounts, working with the Media Director as needed.
• Drive strategic ideation on all accounts, designing & adjusting campaign strategies to meet each client’s business goals (and internal objectives).
• Design & deploy tests in accounts on a monthly & quarterly cadence (structural, targeting, creative & messaging, conversion, etc).
• Continuously test, verify, and improve full-funnel structures.
• Helping to develop effective use of AI tools to streamline workflows and improve performance.
• Other applicable or related duties as assigned.

Role Requirements:

• 6-8+ years of Paid Media experience
• Experience managing multiple paid media accounts with budgets ranging between $300K-$3MM per month.
• Experience driving paid media strategy, project road maps, media plans, competitive research, testing and measurement frameworks for clients across multiple media channels.
• Extensive experience in campaign management & strategy across Programmatic advertising and Meta Ads, with Google (Search, PMAX, Demand Gen, Youtube, Video, etc.) preferred.
• Additional platform familiarity may be a plus but not required: LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, or Bing ads
• Familiarity with multiple programmatic DSPs with managed service and self service preferred, along with related DMPs and data partners.
• Experience with full funnel strategy, lead generation, driving brand awareness and measuring incremental lift.
• Experience with Google Analytics, GTM, conversion and optimization strategy (GA4 knowledge a plus).
• Ability to write ad copy, guide creative strategy, identify asset requirements and establish a creative testing cadence.
• Client relationship management experience. Reporting insights, identifying & optimizing towards client business goals.
• Team management, delegation, and development experience.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Managing a full workload indicated by $30K revenue/employee
• Pace within 98% of the budget goal
• Reach conversion goals within 95%+ of target
• 100% of deliverables / tasks completed on time (by specified due date) or proactively communicate if delayed

Most Important Things (MITs)

• Lead paid media strategy and client performance for 1-3 key accounts, in addition to supporting Supervisors and their Senior Media Managers on strategy and performance delivery on multiple additional accounts where they serve as the primary leads (delegated ownership).
• Excellence in channel production and account performance, with full ownership and accountability of client performance for their team’s client roster
• Mastery of internal and external reporting analysis, fully understanding and executing internal reporting requirements and the development and presentation of external client reporting
• Excellence in problem solving, client business goal interpretation, and strategic planning
• Strong client and team communication, leading structured team meetings and 1:1 meetings with team members on a weekly basis
• Delegation of ownership, work prioritization, and team development

Power Digital’s people and culture are at the core of our success, which is why diversity in our team’s backgrounds and experiences are paramount. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who strive to make an impact inside and outside of the workplace. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employees' points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.

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