Associate Director, Paid Media - Remote Strategy Leader

Lever, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + discretionary bonus

Benefits

Job summary

P10 is seeking an experienced Associate Director, Paid Media to build media capabilities and drive effective strategies for clients. This hands-on leadership role requires developing integrated media plans, guiding investments, and actively planning, launching, buying, and optimizing campaigns across DSPs and platforms.

You’ll present to senior client stakeholders and work directly in media platforms. Remote in the United States with travel up to 5%.

Qualifications

• Healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical technology agency experience.
• Recent experience building, launching, optimizing, and troubleshooting campaigns within DSPs and other paid media platforms.
• Strong understanding of programmatic media, audience activation, inventory, bidding, optimization, brand safety, and frequency management.
• Experience developing integrated media plans, budgets, forecasts, and client recommendations.
• Working knowledge of paid social, paid search, video, audio, and other digital channels.
• Ability to move comfortably between strategic client conversations and detailed platform execution.
• Experience managing budgets, building client relationships, and contributing to business growth.
• Strong communication, presentation, organization, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate client objectives and audience insights into integrated media strategies, channel plans, budgets, forecasts, and learning agendas.
• Develop plans across programmatic, endemic, EHR, point-of-care, paid social, paid search, video, audio, and emerging channels.
• Build strategies that reach healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, office staff, access stakeholders, and the broader care team.
• Create clear recommendations that explain what P10 proposes, why it matters, and how the investment supports client objectives.
• Partner with Client Services, strategy, creative, technology, and analytics to integrate media into broader client planning.
• Plan, build, launch, buy, optimize, and troubleshoot campaigns across DSPs and other paid media platforms.
• Manage budgets, pacing, audience quality, frequency, inventory, creative performance, conversions, and other relevant indicators.
• Lead optimization decisions across audiences, channels, partners, bids, budgets, placements, and creative.
• Establish quality-control standards for campaign setup, tracking, launch, optimization, reporting, and billing.
• Ensure campaigns meet platform, privacy, client, and regulated healthcare advertising requirements.
• Translate results into clear recommendations that explain what happened, why it matters, and what should happen next.
• Apply campaign findings to future audience, channel, creative, and investment decisions.
• Serve as a trusted media advisor and present strategies, investment recommendations, performance findings, and future opportunities to clients.
• Identify opportunities to expand media engagements within existing client relationships.
• Lead or contribute media strategy to pitches, proposals, scopes, and capabilities presentations.
• Help evolve P10’s DSP and broader healthcare media capabilities.
• Evaluate programmatic, endemic, EHR, point-of-care, and emerging media partners.
• Design pilots and turn successful approaches into repeatable P10 offerings.
• Build scalable processes, tools, benchmarks, partner scorecards, and ways of working.
• Mentor and provide strategic and technical guidance to team members as the practice grows.

Skills

Paid media leadership

Programmatic

DSPs

Healthcare marketing

Budget management

Client presentation

Tools

DSP platforms

Job description

P10 is seeking an experienced Associate Director, Paid Media to build media capabilities and drive effective strategies for clients. This hands-on leadership role requires developing integrated media plans, guiding investments, and actively planning, launching, buying, and optimizing campaigns across DSPs and platforms.

You’ll present to senior client stakeholders and work directly in media platforms. Remote in the United States with travel up to 5%.