Performance Media Manager

The Performance Media Manager monitors and maintains media campaign development and activation across Display and Social channels. This role involves overseeing a team, developing digital strategies, coordinating media plans, and ensuring quality control. The manager will continually evaluate campaign performance to exceed client goals, working closely with media, creative, and analytics teams. Proficiency in math, strong analytical skills, attention to detail, creativity, and an understanding of consumer digital media behavior are essential.

Must Have

• Monitor and maintain media campaign development and activation across Display and Social channels
• Manage and develop Senior Analyst & Analyst
• Coordinate client deliverables across inter-agency team
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of client business
• Monitor and maintain campaign budgets and pacing
• Oversee and propose optimization recommendations
• Pull and analyze data for campaign reporting and insights
• 6+ years of progressive responsibility in digital media planning, buying, and client management
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Solid interpersonal and teamwork abilities
• Demonstrated leadership and supervision skills
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Strong analytical abilities

Good to Have

• Experience working on retail or financial services brands
• Experience with acquisition-focused initiatives

Perks & Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Disability
• 401K
• Parental and family care leave
• Family forming assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible time off

Company description

Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT – Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions – to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention, to care more about our clients’ brands, and to buy more products and services from them.

Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world’s best and most beloved brands and companies. We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first-look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers.

With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. And by applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today’s challenges, and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come.

Because we know that heat arises the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights, content and creative production, communications and strategy, finance and marketing, and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.

Overview

The Performance Media Manager is responsible for monitoring and maintaining media campaign development and activation across Display and Social channels. They will report to the Associate Director and oversee a team of media professionals in developing digital strategies and coordinating media plans for our client's products and/or services. They will work closely with the larger media, creative, and analytics teams to maintain quality control of campaigns and continually evaluate performance to exceed client goals. The ideal candidate requires proficiency in math, strong analytical skills, attention to detail, as well as creativity and an overall interest in and understanding of how consumers leverage digital media in the decision path.

Responsibilities

• Ensures all day to day activities and deadlines are being met by team
• Manages and develops Senior Analyst & Analyst
• Work closely with Senior Analyst and Analyst to establish priorities and manage team workload
• Ensures the quality of work for all client deliverables
• Coordinates client deliverables across inter-agency team
• Ensures that client relationships continue to be strengthened by quality of deliverables and client satisfaction with the work
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of client business, from current and historical perspectives
• Able to demonstrate to clients how proposed media recommendations will provide value to client business
• Maintains strong relationships with publishing partners
• Monitor and maintain campaign budgets and pacing
• Monitor and maintain performance of active campaigns
• Oversee and propose optimization recommendations in partnership with Senior Analyst
• Pull and analyze data to inform campaign reporting and help to build insights
• Stay informed on industry trends and keep tabs on competitive landscape
• Learn all relevant tools for reporting, analytics, and competitive analysis
• Timely delivery of all work is required

Qualifications

• 6+ years of progressive levels of responsibility in digital media planning, buying, and client management
• Experience working on retail or financial services brands is preferred, with acquisition-focused initiatives a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong organizational skills, detail-oriented
• Solid interpersonal and teamwork abilities
• Able to build and strengthen client relationships
• Demonstrates leadership and supervision skills
• Demonstrates critical thinking and problem solving abilities
• Strong analytical abilities

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off. If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com

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Compensation Range: $73,910.00 - $116,380.00 anual. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 2/17/26.

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