Director, Paid Media

VaynerMedia; New York; Hybrid; GBP 112,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

VaynerMedia is seeking a Media Director, Buying to lead a high-impact team of media buyers and planners. The role focuses on mentoring, client liaison, and developing sophisticated investment strategies across major paid social, SEM, and other biddable platforms.

You will drive omnichannel media plans that deliver tangible business outcomes for large brands. The position is hybrid, with expectations to collaborate across a cross-functional group and maintain strong relationships with clients and

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale digital media programs.
• Ability to mentor and develop teams in a fast-paced agency setting.
• Strong client relationship management and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of media buyers/planners, providing leadership and mentorship.
• Act as the key contact for clients and platform partners.
• Lead check-ins with account and media counterparts to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Develop and deliver sophisticated media investment strategies from insights and QA reporting.
• Create media plans and present reporting guidance to clients.
• Collaborate across disciplines to craft omnichannel strategies.
• Establish internal policies and POVs on agency partnerships and digital media.
• Provide thought leadership on running the unit of business and client expectations.
• Manage up to senior leadership on crucial client matters and opportunities.

Skills

Media planning

Team leadership

Client relations

Digital advertising

Strategic thinking

Job description

VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies.

The Media Director, Buying will be tasked with high level operations management, fostering client relationships, and overseeing buying strategy and executional excellence. The Director reports into a S/VP, Media and will work on a cohesive team consisting of buying, planning and analytics professionals working across one or more clients. Our Directors work closely with our clients, platform representatives, and vendors to ensure VaynerMedia is on the cutting edge of buying trends. We look for Directors that embody a true leadership mentality. We love seeing leaders that devote their days to making their teams successful, working for them, not above them, providing thought leadership, guidance and fostering their growth within VaynerMedia.

What You’d Do:

• Oversee a team of media buyers/planners providing leadership, mentorship, vision and technical expertise. As well as regularly meeting to get feedback, provide council, discuss problems or successes, etc.

• Act as the key contact for client and platform partners, operating as a go-to voice and leader.

• Lead check-ins with key account and media counterparts to ensure projects are moving ahead and are thoughtful, high quality, and exceeding client expectations.

• Develop and deliver sophisticated media investment strategies to clients, derived from industry insights and QA reporting.

• Create media plans, assist in presentation material creation, and provide strategic guidance on reporting calls with clients.

• Collaborate across agency disciplines to craft best-in-class, holistic omnichannel media strategies rooted in driving tangible business outcomes for large brands.

• Continue to establish internal policies and POVs on agency partnerships, the general digital media landscape, and current client business cases.

• Provide thought leadership around how the unit of business should be run, in tandem with setting both internal and external expectations as to the realities of daily business execution.

• Manage up to senior leadership corresponding the most crucial aspects of a client's business, keeping them abreast of any pertinent developments and urgent client needs.

• Work to proactively bring new/emerging opportunities to clients, pushing the envelope of media excellence.

• Forge new relationships with clients, and ultimately maintain account/s for the well-being of the immediate team and the larger agency.

• Work in conjunction with HR to teach, engage, and grow direct reports and provide a positive work environment.

What You’ve Got:

• A minimum 6+ years of industry experience working in platform with a proven track record of executing sophisticated, large scale digital media programs that drove tangible business outcomes.

• A proven track record of large-scale media buying proficiency across major paid social, SEM, and other biddable platforms. Emphasis on performance / lower funnel tactics and channels.

• Fluency with analytics, attribution and measurement systems

• Ability to lead by example in terms of attention to detail, general work ethic, empathy and internal/external professionalism.

• You live for today’s digital & mobile consumer and is passionate about developing brand-specific strategies and constantly seeks out innovative partners/platforms to identify new opportunities.

• An individual who demonstrates the ability to navigate a portfolio of brands within a larger conglomerate or business group, gain an understanding of their unique company architectures, to build and strengthen relationships with essential stakeholders

• A person that is well versed in media who can utilize resources to help guide client’s marketing goals in their respective markets (syndicated, proprietary, analyst data)

• Understand and adopt new techniques and technologies that are relevant for clients’ media strategies

This position is currently designated as hybrid and is subject to the Company's workplace attendance and in-office work requirements, as in effect from time to time. The Company reserves the right to modify these requirements at any time.

All information submitted with this application and disclosed in the interview and screening processes must be truthful. The Company reserves the right in its sole discretion, to disqualify a candidate from consideration, withdraw a conditional offer of employment, or terminate employment, if it discovers a candidate provided false, misleading, or materially incomplete information during the application process.

VaynerX is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military status, veteran status, citizenship or immigration status (as permitted by applicable law), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.