Senior Vice President Performance Media, Planning

Critical Mass; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Critical Mass in New York, NY is seeking an SVP of Performance Media, Planning to architect investment, audience, and channel strategies across a high-profile client portfolio.

You will lead end-to-end planning across Search, Social, Programmatic and Emerging Channels, build AI-driven models, govern budgets, and advise Fortune 100 leaders with data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive leadership within a major media holding company network or data-centric consultancy.
• Deep operational familiarity with proprietary holding company data networks, enterprise data clean rooms, and identity resolution graphs.
• Advanced mastery of quantitative planning tools, audience syndication platforms, and predictive modeling software.
• Proven experience building media investment forecasting models and managing complex client P&Ls.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end strategic planning across Search, Social, Programmatic, Commerce, and Emerging Channels.
• Build algorithmic media models using predictive AI tools within holding company networks.
• Oversee portfolio planning allocations with budgeting controls and real-time reallocations.
• Define audience planning using client first-party data in clean rooms and mapping to identity graphs.
• Design planning frameworks with MMM, clean room analytics, and incrementality testing.
• Architect cookie-less targeting and adapt to evolving privacy regulations.
• Advise Fortune 100 CMOs and finance leaders with data-driven business cases.
• Lead growth narratives for new business pitches and drive profitability.
• Manage internal planning resources to ensure profitability across accounts.

Skills

Experience 15+ yrs

Tech & Data mastery

Planning expertise

Financial acumen

Job description

Senior Vice President Performance Media, Planning

in New York, New York, United States of America.

Agency:

Critical Mass

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Media Planning and Buying

Job Description:

Critical Mass is hiring a Senior Vice President (SVP) Performance Media, Planning to join our growing team. As the SVP Performance Media, Planning, you will architect the overarching investment, audience, and channel allocation strategies across a high-impact client portfolio. You translate complex client business goals into highly accountable, cross-channel media blueprints by leveraging proprietary holding company data networks, identity graphs, and AI-driven planning engines. You must ensure client media investments are mathematically structured to maximize performance, build future-proof data assets, and meet the agency's commercial margin targets.

You will:

• Lead upstream planning: Own the end-to-end strategic planning process, determining the optimal mix of performance capital across Search, Social, Programmatic, Commerce, and Emerging Channels
• Build algorithmic media models: Utilize predictive AI tools and machine learning engines within the holding company network to simulate spend scenarios, forecasting business outcomes (e.g., CAC, LTV, revenue) based on shifting investment levels
• Manage budget governance: Oversee client portfolio planning allocations, ensuring rigorous financial controls, pacing compliance, and real-time automated reallocations based on performance signals
• Leverage HoldCo technology stacks: Serve as the expert champion for the holding company’s proprietary data and identity infrastructure (e.g., WPP's Choreograph, Publicis' Epsilon, Omnicom's Omni), integrating these ecosystems into daily planning work products
• Define addressable audience planning: Lead the creation of precision target segments by onboarding client first-party data into secure clean rooms (e.g., Snowflake, InfoSum) and mapping them against global identity graphs
• Deploy future-proof measurement: Design planning frameworks rooted in unified measurement, combining next-generation Media Mix Modeling (MMM), privacy-safe clean room analytics, and rigorous, continuous incrementality testing
• Navigate identity deprecation: Architect cookie-less targeting and alternative tracking strategies to ensure media plans remain resilient against signal loss and evolving global privacy regulations
• Advise senior client leaders: Serve as the strategic architect and trusted advisor to Fortune 100 CMOs and financial planning teams, clearly justifying media plans using rigorous commercial data and tech capabilities
• Drive tech-forward growth: Lead the performance planning and data-identity narrative for high-value new business pitches, demonstrating how the agency's technology stack drives superior client profitability
• Protect agency margins: Manage internal planning team resources, ensuring scope alignment, software/data tool utilization, billable efficiency, and operational profitability across all client accounts

You have:

• Experience: 15+ years of progressive leadership within a major media holding company network (e.g., GroupM, Publicis Groupe, Omnicom Media Group, IPG, Dentsu) or a data-centric management consultancy, with a heavy emphasis on enterprise-level media planning
• Technology & Data Mastery: Deep operational familiarity with proprietary holding company data networks, enterprise data clean rooms, and identity resolutions graphs
• Planning Expertise: Advanced mastery of quantitative planning tools, audience syndication platforms, and predictive modeling software to build data-backed channel allocation recommendations
• Financial Acumen: Proven experience building media investment forecasting models, managing complex client P&Ls, and presenting technical business cases to corporate procurement and finance leaders
• $225,000-$250,000

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