Media Strategy Director

Realtime.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading advertising firm in Denver is seeking an Account Director to fully own client accounts and drive business growth. Responsibilities include acting as the primary contact for clients, managing day-to-day communications, and providing strategic recommendations to enhance paid advertising programs. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in advertising, strong project management skills, and the ability to foster senior client relationships. Experience with analytics tools and multi-channel media plans is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing senior client relationships and driving results.
• Proven ability to articulate complex advertising elements.
• Hands-on experience with multi-channel media plans.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary contact for day-to-day client engagement.
• Provide strategy and planning for client advertising programs.
• Manage and align team efforts to meet client objectives.

Skills

Client relationship management

Paid social and paid search experience

Project management

Analytics tools knowledge

Team management

Tools

Google Analytics

Adobe Analytics

Job description

What You’ll Do

Account Directors at Realtime have the opportunity to fully own their accounts and drive their own business forward. In practice, this looks like:

• Acting as primary point of contact for clients on a day-to-day basis – working closely with them to intimately understand their business, their goals, their teams, and how they function.
• Providing the core strategy, planning, and recommendations to further improve the paid advertising programs of your clients.
• Identifying opportunities for additional services or resources that help clients achieve their business goals and deliver the best possible work.
• Working alongside Realtime’s internal resourcing team to identify needs and gaps within existing account structure.
• Project managing across the entire team – ad operations, measurement, creative, etc. – to organize and execute around core advertising objectives while keeping the team aligned to the client’s “North Star” goals.
• Managing and presenting on regular and ad‑hoc client calls.
• Organizing internal touch‑bases and alignment points.
• Deliver forecasting, upsell opportunities, and other revenue‑oriented communications to agency leadership.

Who You Are

As an Account Director at Realtime, you’ll be an internal leader and play the most critical role on the account for your clients. To do this, you will have:

• Prior hands‑on keyboard advertising experience across paid social, paid search/shopping, and/or programmatic.
• A record of driving results and generating successful business outcomes for both your client and your previous organizations.
• A record of building and managing senior client relationships and the ability to connect with people in a business setting.
• Prior experience managing teams that include ad ops as well as account managers.
• An understanding of advanced measurement approaches and tools, inclusive of MMM and incrementality, that will help your clients better understand the connection between investment and performance.
• The ability to clearly and effectively articulate complicated and technical elements and results of advertising programs.
• A general understanding of other important components of advertising programs, including measurement and attribution, creative/influencer, affiliate marketing, the relationship between organic and paid, etc.
• Experience building multi‑channel media plans inclusive of both digital and traditional media buys.
• Experience working with direct publisher partnerships and building RFPs and corresponding workflows that specifically accomplish client needs.
• Experience leveraging analytics tools like Google Analytics, Adobe, or other site analytics.
• Strong prioritization and internal project management skills.