Sr. Manager, Integrated Media

Ask Athena; Mansfield (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ask Athena in Mansfield, MA, is seeking a Sr Manager, Integrated Media to develop, execute, and optimize full-funnel media strategies across brand and performance channels. This role partners with cross-functional teams to drive ROAS, CAC, and revenue while maintaining a test-and-learn mindset.

The position operates in a hybrid environment with four on-site days and one remote day weekly, delivering measurable impact across omnichannel media plans and retailer partnerships.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in integrated media, performance marketing, or omnichannel environments.
• Experience managing multi-channel paid media budgets and partners.
• Strong analytical, forecasting, KPI reporting, and budget pacing skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute integrated omnichannel media strategies across brand, performance, retail, and emerging channels.
• Lead acquisition and performance marketing programs across paid social, search, display, video/CTV, and emerging channels.
• Own media performance reporting frameworks, dashboards, and readouts across full-funnel channels.
• Partner with Brand, Creative, Ecommerce, CRM, and channel leads to align on experiences and journeys.
• Manage agency relationships, planning sessions, and post-campaign reviews; communicate insights to leadership.

Skills

Integrated media planning

Performance marketing

Budget management

Analytics & reporting

Stakeholder leadership

Tools

GA4

Adobe Analytics

Datorama

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

The Sr Manager, Integrated Media is responsible for developing, executing, and optimizing full-funnel media strategies that drive brand growth, customer acquisition, engagement, and revenue across all consumer touchpoints. This role serves as the day-to-day media expert and key operating partner to the Director, Integrated Media & Activation, translating brand strategy, campaign briefs, and business priorities into media plans across brand, performance, retail media, and emerging channels.

This leader balances performance rigor with omnichannel thinking, ensuring media investment connects the consumer journey across all brand and commercial touchpoints. The role partners closely with Brand, Digital Shelf & CRM, In-House Agency, Channel Leads, eCommerce, and external partners to deliver measurable business outcomes while continuously improving media effectiveness, attribution, and investment efficiency. This is a hybrid role; we work on site 4 days and remotely 1 day weekly.

Integrated Media Strategy & Planning

• Develop and execute integrated omnichannel media strategies aligned to brand, business, and commercial objectives.
• Translate campaign briefs and seasonal business priorities into actionable channel plans across awareness, consideration, and conversion objectives
• Support annual, quarterly, and campaign-level media planning by recommending channel mix, investment allocation, audience strategy, and performance expectations.
• Build audience-first strategies that leverage first-party, retailer, and platform data to reach the right consumer with the right message at the right point in the journey.
• Partner with Brand, Channel Leads and eCommerce team to ensure media plans support a connected omnichannel consumer experience.
• Identify emerging media opportunities, platforms, partners, and technologies that can improve reach, engagement, acquisition, and media productivity.

Performance Marketing & Acquisition

• Lead execution and optimization of acquisition and performance marketing programs across paid social, paid search, programmatic display, online video, CTV, and emerging channels.
• Deliver against key KPIs including ROAS, CAC, new customer growth, traffic quality, conversion rate, incremental revenue, and return on marketing investment.
• Manage media budget pacing, daily and weekly forecasting, bid strategy, audience optimization, channel prioritization, and testing roadmaps to maximize profitable growth.
• Lead campaign testing across audiences, creative, attribution windows, and media mix to improve efficiency and scale.
• Partner with Brand, Creative, Ecommerce, Digital Shelf, and CRM teams to align on creative, landing experiences, product priorities, and audience journeys.
• Provide clear performance readouts, insights, and recommendations that inform future investment decisions and marketing priorities.

Omnichannel Media Expertise

• Serve as an organizational hands‑on expert for omnichannel media execution and optimization across DTC, retailer, marketplace, and store‑connected touchpoints.
• Partner with Channel Leads and retailer teams to develop integrated media plans that support strategic accounts, key product priorities, launches, and seasonal moments.
• Support internal teams on best‑in‑class retail media, marketplace media, and omnichannel performance practices.

Measurement, Analytics & Optimization

• Own media performance reporting frameworks, dashboards, and recurring business readouts across full‑funnel channels.
• Monitor and report key metrics including reach, impressions, engagement, brand lift, branded search, traffic, conversion, ROAS, CAC, LTV, incrementality, and ROI.
• Partner with Analytics, CRM, agencies, and platform partners to strengthen attribution, measurement, incrementality testing, and media mix evaluation.
• Build and refine models to assess test viability, investment scenarios, audience performance, channel contribution, and budget allocation tradeoffs.
• Analyze campaign results and translate data into actionable recommendations for Brand, RMEO, Channel Leads, eCommerce, and leadership stakeholders.
• Maintain a consistent test‑and‑learn discipline that improves media productivity and informs future planning.

Agency, Partner & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Manage day‑to‑day relationships with media agency, and platform partners
• Set clear goals, budgets, deliverables, reporting expectations, and performance feedback loops with external partners.
• Lead agency planning sessions, campaign kickoffs, optimization discussions, partner QBRs, and post‑campaign reviews.
• Negotiate media opportunities, test programs, partner value, and innovation opportunities that improve marketing effectiveness.
• Act as Director of Media’s key media operating partner, bringing recommendations, risks, opportunities, and decision‑ready analysis to support the broader Integrated Media & Activation agenda.
• Communicate clearly with peers and leadership, translating complex media performance into simple business implications and next actions.
• Influence senior leaders and business partners through strategic recommendations, clear communication and strong business acumen

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in integrated media, performance marketing, acquisition marketing, retail media, or omnichannel marketing.
• Proven experience managing significant paid media budgets across multiple channels and objectives.
• Strong expertise in paid social, paid search, programmatic, video/CTV, and retail media.
• Demonstrated ability to build and optimize full-funnel media programs that support both brand and performance outcomes.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen, including experience with attribution, incrementality, forecasting, KPI reporting, and budget pacing.
• Experience managing external agencies, media partners, platform partners, and cross‑functional internal stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of eCommerce, marketplace, DTC, and retailer‑connected marketing environments.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, project management, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast‑paced, matrixed organization with strong attention to detail and a test‑and‑learn mindset.
• Retail media platform experience including Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, Target Roundel, and other commerce media networks.
• Experience in consumer goods, lifestyle, fashion, travel, retail, marketplace, or omnichannel commerce environments.
• Familiarity with GA4, Adobe Analytics, Datorama, Tableau, Power BI, or similar reporting and dashboarding platforms.
• Experience with media mix modeling, incrementality testing, lift studies, audience experiments, and attribution frameworks.
• Ability to balance creative judgment with performance discipline and convert insights into practical execution.