Associate Director, Content

Publicis Groupe; Miami, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Family Care

Adoption assistance

Pet adoption support

Health and wellness programs

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Razorfish, part of Publicis Groupe, is seeking an Associate Director, Content to lead branded content partnerships that connect media, creative, and culture to drive business results. You will manage a team and coordinate across partners, clients, and internal teams from development through activation and measurement.

Reporting to the Director, you will shape strategic direction, oversee governance, and present recommendations to senior stakeholders while guiding a path for innovative content

Qualifications

• 5+ years in branded content or related field; agency experience preferred.
• Experience leading content programs from development through activation and measurement.
• Strong understanding of media trends and cultural dynamics impacting brands.
• Strategic and creative judgment with ability to navigate ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Drive day-to-day development and activation of branded content programs.
• Lead cross-functional execution across clients, partners, and internal teams.
• Oversee paid media activation, measurement, and program reporting.
• Present recommendations and maintain stakeholder alignment.
• Coach junior team members and contribute to new ideas.

Skills

Branded content

Content partnerships

Media investment

Integrated marketing

Client leadership

Project management

Analytics

AI tools

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Microsoft Office Suite

Copilot

Job description

Company description

Hi there—at Razorfish, we’re leaders in what's next. Since the dawn of the internet, we’ve helped brands move first through every era of transformation, defining what digital means for business and now leading brands into the age of AI. Everyone has a prediction. Razorfish has a track record.

Named a Most Innovative Agency three years running (2024–2026) by Campaign US, our work reflects a proven ability not just to anticipate what’s coming, but to help our clients actively shape the future. No matter the trend or cultural moment, delivering real business impact wouldn’t be possible without our people. We bring together curious, driven, and diverse thinkers who challenge convention, push boundaries, and hold a high bar for creative excellence.

If you’re motivated to work alongside top performers, push the boundaries of what’s possible, and help define where technology, business, and marketing are headed next—this is the place to do it.

Join us at razorfish.com.

Overview

The Associate Director, Content sits within Razorfish’s media team and leads the development and execution of branded content partnerships that connect media, creative, and culture to drive business results.

Reporting to the Director and managing Manager/Supervisor-level team members, the Associate Director plays a central role in bringing custom content programs to life, driving day-to-day development and execution while helping translate strategic direction into actionable plans. The role coordinates work across partners, clients, and cross-functional teams from marketplace development through activation and measurement.

An ideal candidate is a strategic, collaborative content marketer with strong creative and media judgment, client leadership skills, and the ability to lead complex programs and teams from development through execution.

Responsibilities

• Drive the day-to-day development and activation of branded custom content programs, helping translate strategic direction into executable plans and coordinating work across partners, clients, and internal teams.
• Manage marketplace engagement for custom content programs, including partner outreach, media plan proposal evaluation, iterative refinements, tactical recommendations, and negotiations. Provide strategic and creative POV across concepts, talent, production, content development, and stakeholder approvals.
• Lead cross-functional execution across clients, partners, investment, creative, production, analytics, and legal/business affairs.
• Oversee paid media activation and measurement, including launch readiness, delivery, optimization, reporting, and program wraps.
• Drive program governance across timelines, budgets, approvals, dependencies, and deliverables; anticipate risks, develop solutions, and elevate when appropriate.
• Serve as a senior day-to-day client and partner lead, presenting recommendations, facilitating decisions, and maintaining alignment across stakeholders.
• Direct and develop Manager/Supervisor-level team members through clear priorities, coaching, feedback, and quality control.
• Contribute to ideation, marketplace intelligence, partner evaluation, and new approaches that strengthen client programs and agency’s content offering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in branded content, content partnerships, media investment, integrated marketing, entertainment marketing, or a related field; agency experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading custom content or integrated media programs from development through activation and measurement.
• Strong understanding of the evolving media landscape and consumer, cultural, social, and entertainment trends, with an eye toward emerging opportunities for brands.
• Strong strategic and creative judgment; conceptual and forward-thinking, with the ability to evaluate ideas and opportunities against client objectives, feasibility, and business value while navigating ambiguity and developing new approaches.
• Strong client leadership, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong project management, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to prioritize and lead multiple complex programs, budgets, timelines, and deliverables.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret performance data and translate results into optimization recommendations and actionable insights.
• Experience with partnership negotiations, creative development, content production, and paid media activation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and coaching or managing junior team members.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word; comfort using Copilot or other AI-enabled productivity tools is a plus.
• Flexibility to support production windows as needed, which may occasionally require work outside traditional business hours and limited travel.

Additional information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
• Matching Gifts programs
• Flexible working arrangements
• ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
• Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

Razorfish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $97,375.00 - USD $133,300.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 9/15/2026.