Media Director Job at Attention Arc in New York

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WHAT YOU’LL DO

Tracking & Monitoring

• Lead measurement strategy across your portfolio, ensuring tagging, reporting, and data flows accurately reflect client KPIs.
• Guide teams in diagnosing performance trends, identifying risks early, and resolving complex issues with clarity and confidence.
• Strengthen the quality of reporting and insights, ensuring outputs are concise, narrative-driven, and strategically relevant.
• Uphold analytic rigor across teams, modeling best practices in Excel, Tableau, SQL, Python, and data storytelling.
• Ensure operational consistency and excellence by setting clear expectations and maintaining disciplined workflows.

Development & Implementation

• Architect programmatic strategies that translate client goals into actionable, platform-specific plans across display, mobile, video, OTT, CTV, and audio.
• Lead programmatic components of RFPs, POVs, and new business efforts, bringing sharp audience thinking and platform innovation.
• Provide high-level oversight of campaign structure, taxonomy, QA, pacing, and optimization frameworks.
• Partner with DSPs to evaluate new capabilities, guide pilot opportunities, and integrate innovation into client roadmaps.
• Establish and evolve best practices that improve efficiency, quality, and cross-team collaboration.

Analytics & Insights

• Lead client-facing conversations by transforming complex data into clear insights and forward-looking recommendations.
• Ensure dashboards and reporting tools are designed for clarity, actionability, and strategic alignment.
• Shape budget strategies based on performance patterns, audience behavior, and predictive insights.
• Champion thoughtful experimentation by designing structured test-and-learn plans that deliver meaningful learning.
• Connect platform insights to broader marketing and business outcomes, identifying cross-channel opportunities for growth.

Professional Skills, Leadership & Team Development

• Serve as a senior strategic partner to planning, account, analytics, and creative teams — ensuring work is cohesive, intentional, and integrated.
• Build trust-based client relationships through honest communication, clear guidance, and strategic perspective.
• Lead and mentor supervisors and emerging leaders with empathy, accountability, and a focus on craft development.
• Foster a culture of shared ownership, curiosity, and collaboration through consistent modeling of The Arc Code.
• Support staffing, resourcing, operational improvements, and capability building across the team and discipline.
• Represent Programmatic in agency-level initiatives and strategic planning efforts.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• Extensive programmatic expertise – 7+ years across major DSPs with the ability to guide strategy at both the client and portfolio level.
• Strategic clarity – a talent for distilling complexity into direction that is simple, actionable, and tied to outcomes.
• Analytical depth – advanced skills in Excel, Tableau, Python, SQL, or similar tools, paired with a curious mindset that turns data into insight and insight into action.
• Leadership grounded in care and accountability – you coach with empathy, set clear expectations, and create an environment where teams feel supported and empowered.
• Operational excellence – the discipline to manage multiple workflows, build efficient processes, and ensure consistent quality across the team.
• Client partnership rooted in Truth With Heart – you communicate with honesty and empathy, navigate challenges with steadiness, and build trust through reliability.
• A collaborative, no-ego approach – aligned with No Sidelines, you share information freely and strengthen cross-team partnership.
• Future-focused thinking – you anticipate needs, identify opportunities, and help both clients and teams move forward with intention.
• A mindset of curiosity and innovation – staying ahead of industry shifts and helping shape how Attention Arc evolves its programmatic practice.

WHO YOU ARE

You are a strategic leader who brings vision, structure, and clarity to programmatic strategy and operations. You bridge high-level thinking with pragmatic execution and guide teams toward excellence. You are a trusted advisor, a disciplined operator, and a mentor — someone who strengthens both the work and the people behind it.

• All In: You take full ownership of programmatic strategies and client relationships, operating with conviction, consistency, and a deep sense of responsibility.
• No Sidelines: You unify planning, analytics, activation, and account partners to cultivate an environment where collaboration drives better thinking and better work.
• Move With Curiosity: You explore new ideas, challenge assumptions, and use data to illuminate possibilities and inspire smarter decisions.
• Truth With Heart: You deliver clear, honest communication — guiding teams through ambiguity, navigating challenges with steadiness, and supporting talent growth with empathy.

Location

This is a hybrid role requiring three in-office days per week. We are considering candidates who could be based out of New York City, Irvington, NY, or Durham, NC.

Salary Range

Estimated range: $130,000 – $150,000. Compensation packages vary by level and experience.

Right to Work in the US

You must be authorized to work in the US. We are not sponsoring work authorization.

Seniority level: Director.

Employment type: Full-time.

Job function: Advertising. Industries: Advertising Services.

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Inferred Benefits

Medical insurance, Vision insurance, 401(k).