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Director, Digital Activation

Omnicom Media, New York, NY, USA

Pay: $90,000-$215,000/yr

Job type: Full Time


Omnicom Media (OM), the media services division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC), delivers transformational experiences for consumers, clients, and talent. Powered by the Omni marketing orchestration system, OM connects best-in-class capabilities that enable our full-service media agencies OMD, PHD, and Hearts & Science to deliver more relevant and actionable consumer experiences, more productive and proactive client experiences, and more collaborative and rewarding talent experiences for the more than 24,000 people serving the world’s leading brands in OM agencies around the globe.

Director, Digital

The Director plays a key role as the day-to-day lead for executing the digital buys. Being the leader across the team and ensuring that pacing, performance and the Digital Activation Process is activated correctly across the area of responsibility is the primary focus of this job. A positive attitude and willingness to “roll up your sleeves” is also critical to get the job done. Experience working with across several media channels is preferred and a curiosity in emerging media platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Demonstrate strategic insight to develop long-term execution plans from client’s stated business objectives, implement those plans, and achieve key metrics (KPIs) as defined by the client.
  • Analytical ability to extract insight and actions from data and relate the “story” back to client’s business goals.
  • Organizational and leadership capabilities to assign resources, track progress, assist in execution and consistently plan programs through supervision of junior team members.
  • Effectively present strategic and tactical plans to clients, staff, and internal teams.
  • Provide regular insight and training to challenge and develop junior team members.
  • Facilitate and manage forecasting, budgeting, pacing, campaign creation, and optimization.
  • Understand business concepts and client objectives to identify campaign expansion opportunities.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of work experience; recent and proven experience in programmatic execution, planning, and activation required; other digital advertising experience such as search and/or social is a plus.
  • Actively optimize and manage client programmatic strategy ensuring micro and macro goals are hit, owning partnership of DSP/SSP vetting and selection.
  • Accountable to daily programmatic team operations and campaign excellence.
  • Effectively manage and lead all programmatic team members.
  • Identify and test new programmatic channels and products, highlighting client value in results and sharing across client team and organization.
  • Identify training and development needs of client team and broader functional team.
  • Instill best practices, processes, methodologies, and frameworks for client team and broader functional team; work with team members to ensure they are being used.
  • In-depth knowledge of the online advertising industry including ad technology solutions; RTB, DSPs, SSPs, advertising/publisher ecosystems, data privacy.

Benefits

For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

Compensation Range

$90,000—$215,000 USD.

Hybrid Work Information

This role is hybrid, requiring three days per week in the office. The remaining two days may be worked remotely. Specific in-office days will be discussed during the interview process, with flexibility to align with team needs. Please note that the number of required in-office days may be adjusted over time, potentially increasing the number of required in-office days based on business needs.

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