Media Strategist

• Develop media plans and recommendations for a range of assigned clients by translating their strategic visions into media objectives to accomplish a wide range of client objectives including direct response (lead gen and fundraising), awareness, persuasion, and advocacy
• Oversee live media campaigns including managing budgets and pacing, working with team members and external vendors to direct campaign optimization, and generating client-facing insights and recommendations
• Participate in client-facing interactions to deliver media strategies and provide clients with the context to understand how your tactical media plans will achieve their business objectives and how ongoing campaigns are performing
• Work collaboratively with other internal or external teams, including media buyers, strategists, account directors, designers, and analysts, to produce campaigns, creative ideas, audience and target recommendations, and experimental designs
• Keep us up to date with the latest digital media trends by maintaining relationships with media partners and engaging in media R&D projects

• 2-4 years experience in cross-channel media planning, with a focus on digital media
• Demonstrated experience translating client business goals into cohesive media strategies and specific KPIs, and a record of managing large scale, multi-channel media campaigns that delivered on those goals
• Understanding of digital and/or traditional media strategy, planning, campaign management, and analysis reporting, and the tools and platforms used
• Ability to effectively manage multiple clients and projects on time, within budget, and meet performance goals
• Exceptional attention to detail, especially with regards to budgeting, pacing and spend tracking, managing vendor relationships and paperwork, and reporting
• Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required
• A shared passion and curiosity for delivering change. This includes comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality that ensures we’re always making progress
• A testing evangelist - no result is ever a problem as long as we can learn and improve in future
• Humble in victory, constructive in defeat. We champion and expect empathy, communication, collaboration, and respect

Personal development fund to stretch their skills