Associate Media Director

1 Month ago • 6 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As the Associate Media Director, you will lead strategic media planning and execution to drive business performance. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, setting media objectives, managing client relationships, and overseeing campaign execution across key platforms like DSPs, Google, META, and The Trade Desk. You will guide and mentor your team, utilizing data insights to optimize performance, deliver innovative solutions, and ensure campaign accuracy and efficiency. The position requires a minimum of 6 years of media planning experience with a focus on activation, social, and programmatic across multiple national campaigns, including at least 3 years of management experience. Proficiency in The Trade Desk, search platforms, and media planning tools is essential, as is a strategic partner mindset with strong analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills. You will also have media buying and negotiation expertise and a clear understanding of the media planning, buying, and reporting process.
Must have:
  • 6+ years of media planning experience
  • 3+ years of management experience
  • Experience in activation, Social, and Programmatic
  • Experience managing client relationships
  • Proficiency in TTD, search platforms, and media planning tools
  • Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills
  • Proven media buying and negotiation expertise
  • Understanding of media planning, buying, and reporting
Good to have:
  • Digital and unwired experience
  • Agency experience with integrated media campaigns
  • Experience managing multi-million-dollar media budgets
Perks:
  • Global maternity and parental leave
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, wellness days, and flex days
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • Early Dismissal Fridays (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
  • Diversity and Inclusion Board with 13 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts

Job Details

As the Associate Media Director, you'll lead strategic media planning and execution to drive business performance. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll set media objectives, manage client relationships, and oversee campaign execution across key platforms lie DSPs, Google, META, and TTD. You’ll guide and mentor your team, using data insights to optimize performance, deliver innovative solutions, and ensure campaign accuracy and efficiency. 

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from the office 2 days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays in Toronto).


You will: 

  • Lead the media planning efforts for national campaigns, focusing on performance-driven strategies.
  • Collaborate with planning leads, marketing science teams, and creative counterparts to establish clear media objectives and drive strategic alignment.
  • Demonstrate initiative by exploring new media solutions, utilizing strategic thinking and creativity to develop innovative alternatives.
  • Manage client relationships and day-to-day queries, providing strategic direction and guidance to media teams.
  • Oversee media execution, ensuring timely delivery against key milestones, including buy negotiations, live dates, and performance reporting.
  • Develop and implement media strategies across DSPs, Google, Search, META (paid social), and TTD, ensuring optimal use of platforms.
  • Manage and mentor the development of Associates and Supervisor teams, fostering their skills and supporting career growth.
  • Lead the process of compiling and interpreting media research to inform media plan development and recommendations.
  • Maintain strong working relationships with internal media planners, creative teams, and clients, acting as a key strategic media partner.
  • Stay ahead of industry trends, exploring new opportunities and meeting with media/vendor representatives to inform strategic decisions.
  • Oversee partner relationships and media buy delivery, ensuring high levels of accuracy and alignment with client objectives.
  • Manage budgets efficiently, ensuring compliance with the SOX process and effective investment oversight.
  • Present media plans and performance insights internally and to clients, providing actionable recommendations.
  • Contribute to the development of competitive analysis to deepen knowledge of the competitive landscape and inform media strategies.

You have: 

  • 6+ years’ experience in media planning, focusing on activation, Social, and Programmatic across multiple national
  • At least 3 years of management experience.
  • Proven ability to integrate media, creative, and brand objectives, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience managing client relationships, ensuring alignment and timely execution of media plans.
  • Hands-on campaign execution, using data and insights to optimize
  • Agency experience, particularly with integrated media campaigns.
  • Proficiency in TTD, search platforms, and media planning tools.
  • Strategic partner mindset, offering insights and recommendations to optimize
  • Experience managing multi-million-dollar media budgets, ensuring efficient allocation and ROI.
  • Up to date with industry trends, fostering innovation through continuous learning.
  • Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills.
  • Proven media buying and negotiation expertise.
  • Clear understanding of the media planning, buying, and reporting process.
  • Digital and unwired experience is a plus.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Proficiency in proprietary analytics and syndicated research tools.

What We Offer 

 

  • Global maternity and parental leave 
  • Competitive benefits packages 
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, wellness days, and flex days 
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • Early Dismissal Friday’s (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday) 
  • Diversity and Inclusion Board with 13 affinity groups 
  • Internal learning and development programs 
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts 

 

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. 

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion_consumidor/consejos_practicos.aspx 

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About The Company

Critical Mass is a team of 1,800 inspired folks based in 12 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients.


We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.


We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

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