Digital Media Client Specialist

KSBW 8 (NBC), Central Coast ABC, and Estrella TV Costa Central, the dominant news and multi-platform Hearst Television station on California’s Central Coast, is looking for a Digital Media Client Specialist. You will work with the Sales Account Executives and their clients to ensure successful digital and web advertising campaigns. You will report to the Digital Sales Manager. We're looking for candidates who can provide customer service to our clients and sales representatives. You'll process online and mobile advertising contracts, obtaining creative materials and overseeing successful digital campaign execution. You need to prioritize projects and manage your time. This is a great opportunity in a growing segment of our organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage digital advertising sales campaigns
• Build, organize and schedule advertising creative assets
• Communicate with our teams (sales, production, finance) and external clients on performance and delivery of commitments
• Provide troubleshooting assistance for creative and operations-related issues for all campaigns
• Prepare strategic PowerPoint proposals based on customer needs
• Collaborate with the creative team to design and develop concepts for digital ad campaigns
• Prepare and deliver monthly client campaign reporting with performance insights

Requirements

• Online advertising trafficking, sales coordinator/planner or related experience
• Experience with web technologies (HTML 5, Flash, JavaScript)
• Working knowledge of Google Ad Manager and Google Analytics
• Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets)
• Experience with programmatic advertising
• Desire to provide exceptional customer service and exceed client expectations
• Related military experience will be considered
• Bilingual a Plus
• In-person attendance is required

 Diversity Statement

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.

Benefits

Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.

• Medical | Dental | Vision
• 401(k) matching
• Emotional Wellness Support
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• LGBTQ+ Health Services
• Additional benefits to meet you and your family's needs

The estimated base salary range for this role is between $45,000 and $50,000. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as transferable skills, work experience, business needs, market demands and conditions, including geographic location where the work will be performed, and other factors permitted by law. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. 

Every career with Hearst Television is like a story. How it develops, where it takes you, the milestones you reach along the way – you’ve got a lot to look forward to as your unique career story unfolds.

Hearst Television, a subsidiary of Hearst, owns and operates local television and radio stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states reaching over 21 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, Hearst Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, This TV, Estrella and more.

Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies. It has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism and industry innovation, including the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism, the national Edward R. Murrow Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.