Account Director, Advertising Performance – Media Growth

RadioJobs; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 104,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer sponsored medical, dental and

Vision coverage

Paid vacation and sick time

Paid company holidays

Volunteer day

401K plan

EAP

Additional programs

Job summary

iHeartMedia, a leading audio company, is seeking an Account Manager in Austin to lead and manage client campaigns across broadcast and digital media. You will partner with agencies and internal teams to deliver strategic media plans, optimize performance, and drive revenue growth.

The role requires 5–7+ years of experience in media and project management, strong analytics, and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of media and project management experience at major advertising agency and/or client side.
• Firm understanding of media assets, terminology, methodology and delivery reports.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills with ability to quickly adapt to changes in workflow, client requests, internal software, and more.
• Strong analytical and resourceful problem-solving skills with ability to work independently.
• Solid math skills and experience in campaign budget tracking, invoicing, and financial reconciliation across multiple platforms and vendors.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office and social media platforms (Facebook, X (Twitter), TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and more).
• Excellent interpersonal skills and collaboration with others.

Responsibilities

• Generates best in class strategic proposals combining ideation, research, statistical data and graphics.
• Identifies the target audience for a campaign and decides how best to communicate to that audience.
• Collaborates with team members to understand the clients’ business objectives and develop comprehensive media strategy.
• Daily involvement and understanding in the media buying, planning and execution of each campaign.
• Maintains and optimizes client campaigns to improve overall performance against pre-determined benchmarks on an ongoing basis.
• Responsible for full delivery against dollars booked across all broadcast, digital, social, and podcast deliverables.
• Works with ad/pod ops to provide critical thinking and troubleshoot any creative/tracking opportunity areas.
• Provide industry-leading post-campaign analysis by partnering with internal subject matter experts, and creating comprehensive recaps, learnings, & recommendations.
• Collaborate with our internal billing & finance team monthly to ensure reconciling billing promptly.
• Day-to-day duties include digital asset creation and delivery tracking, research, ideation on projects, strategic proposal writing, statistical analysis, campaign financial reconciliation, understanding schedule building and trafficking creative to media partners to support teammates, and recap preparation.
• Works on a wide range of client accounts at the same time; comfort in balancing multiple priorities.
• Work on special projects as needed.

Skills

Media & project management

Communication

Analytical thinking

Budget tracking

Social media platforms

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

iHeartMedia, a leading audio company, is seeking an Account Manager in Austin to lead and manage client campaigns across broadcast and digital media. You will partner with agencies and internal teams to deliver strategic media plans, optimize performance, and drive revenue growth.

The role requires 5–7+ years of experience in media and project management, strong analytics, and excellent communication skills.