Channel Marketing Senior Associate-Audience Management Strategy & Enablement
Chicago, IL, United States
Full time
Day shift
Base Pay/Salary: Chicago,IL $85,500.00-$130,000.00
Location: 1 S Clark St, Chicago, IL, 60603, US
Job Description
Turn audience insights into measurable media impact. The Audience Management Strategy & Enablement team shapes data-driven targeting, advance marketing technology, strengthen privacy and controls, and improve paid media performance across digital channels.
Job responsibilities:
- Develop audience strategies that improve paid media effectiveness across display, social, search, programmatic, and emerging channels.
- Advise marketers and media teams on audience activation, advanced targeting, segmentation, suppression, and data prioritization.
- Guide audience development and ensure accurate, timely delivery of segments to media platforms.
- Mentor audience management colleagues to maintain live audiences, monitor delivery, manage taxonomies, and resolve operational issues.
- Collaborate with Product and Technology teams to evaluate and enhance DMP, CDP, identity, and marketing technology capabilities.
- Monitor campaign performance, support test-and-learn initiatives, and translate results into actionable recommendations.
- Ensure audience strategies meet privacy, regulatory, security, and operational control requirements.
- Coordinate with marketers, media teams, analytics, modeling, legal, compliance, risk, agencies, and vendors.
- Manage advertising technology and data vendor relationships while evaluating emerging solutions.
- Develop and share audience management best practices, standards, and educational materials.
- Present technical concepts, strategic recommendations, and performance insights clearly to business leaders and senior stakeholders.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Information Technology, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in paid media, digital marketing, audience management, advertising technology, personalization, or technology management.
- Strong understanding of media technology across display, social, search, programmatic, mobile, and emerging channels.
- Hands-on experience with DMPs, CDPs, analytics, and marketing technology platforms.
- Experience building and syndicating audiences, maintaining taxonomies, reporting, analyzing performance, and troubleshooting delivery issues.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and develop actionable recommendations.
- Working knowledge of data privacy, regulatory requirements, and operational controls related to data collection and advertising.
- Proven ability to collaborate with and influence stakeholders across business, technology, operations, and control functions.
- Excellent written, verbal, storytelling, and presentation skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.
- Strong project management, cross-functional coordination, and vendor management capabilities.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, and WYSIWYG drag-and-drop interfaces.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Advanced degree in Marketing, Business, Information Technology, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- Experience in financial services, another highly regulated industry, or a client-side environment.
- Experience with Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Platform, Oracle BlueKai, Twilio Segment, mParticle, Tealium, Kinesso, or Salesforce.
- Familiarity with identity solutions and the evolving post-cookie advertising ecosystem.
- Experience managing advertising technology or data vendors and evaluating emerging capabilities.
- Experience coordinating with offshore teams, agencies, or external partners.