Associate Director of Media Investment

• Must be located in DFW or willing to relocate
• Manage the implementation, execution and optimization of digital advertising campaigns across multiple platforms, such as Meta, Google, Bing, The Trade Desk, TikTok, etc.
• Collaborate with agency and client teams to formulate and create strategic proposals that meet identified objectives
• Traffic Management: Manage the execution and technical deployment of both direct (creative assets and tags) and programmatic video and display campaigns: Ad-serving, trafficking, optimization troubleshooting, etc. Cross device implementation (desktop, mobile, IPTV, etc.)
• Analytics & Operations Strategy: Provide high-end monitoring and reporting of media activity. Monitor KPIs (VTR, CTR, etc.) on a daily basis. Work on standard and executive level reporting and activity summaries
• Sales Activity Support: Interact on a day-to-day basis with the agency’s Media Operations team to ensure campaign optimization and success. Support agency teams during operational and business reviews and acting as a critical team member for operational and technical discussions
• Campaign Monitoring: Identifying and escalating potential technical issues, identifying and building specifications on potential market needs requiring technical developments
• Manage a team of ad operations associates, specialists, supervisors, and managers
• Onboard new hires in agency and industry best practices
• Ongoing strategic media recommendations
• Comfort leading client-facing calls and meetings
• Host internal and external training

• 8+ years of working experience in digital ad operations or technical account manager role within the digital advertising field
• Strong knowledge of technical market standards (VAST, VPAID, ad-serving, SSP, DSP, etc.)
• Good understanding of web standards (HTML, JS/JSON, Flash, etc.)
• Previous experience and knowledge within the programmatic ecosystem (DSP/SSP’s, CDP, DMP, ad-networks, etc.)
• Outstanding analytical and project management skills
• Extreme attention to detail and the ability to handle several projects concurrently under deadline pressure is essential
• Ability to work effectively with internal team members and external clients and other agency partners
• Ability to create accurate projections based on data analysis
• Ability to multi-task and perform under pressure
• Proactive initiative: A team player who is accountable for delivering accurate, timely and insightful report, recommendations and POVs
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Supervisory experience
• Experience running multi-million dollar media investments

Master’s degree is a plus