Bluestatedigital

Associate Director, Paid Media Planning (Evergreen)

NY, DC, Oakland · Director

Sponsorship not specified$101k-$120kDetected 75 days ago

Lead GenerationBudgetingSignal ProcessingCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

Interested in joining Blue State's Media Team?
Submit your application here to ensure you're first in line for future opportunities.
Please note: this is an "evergreen" job post (i.e. not an active job post), but your expression of interest matters to us.

Responsibilities

Analyze ongoing and historical performance data to identify opportunities for improvement, make strategic recommendations, and generate reporting and insights to drive optimization.
Participate in (and frequently lead) 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
Keep us up to date with the latest digital media trends by maintaining relationships with media partners and engaging in media R&D projects
Serve as a mentor and internal and external thought leader by helping train colleagues to develop media strategy expertise, writing blog posts, and participating on panels.
Ability to effectively manage multiple clients and projects on time, within budget, and meet performance goals.

Compensation

$1,250 annually in professional development funds
The salary range for this position is $101,000-$120,000
The salary range for this position is $101,000-$120,000; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Benefits

Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
Inclusive family planning coverage, including fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits
Flexible and health savings accounts
Generous paid holiday schedule
12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
Pre-tax commuter benefits

Company info

As part of the Paid Media team, you'll work closely with a cross-disciplinary group of Blue State employees who are passionate, geeky, and care about their clients and causes.
Blue State fosters an environment where everyone has an opportunity to shape new approaches, grow and learn from their colleagues, and take advantage of a personal development fund to stretch their skills even further.
You'll have the opportunity to work with some of the most inspiring charities, ambitious brands, and passionate advocacy and social change campaigns.
Some things we're looking for
6-8 years experience in cross-channel media planning, including a mix of digital and traditional 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.
Deep understanding of all aspects of media strategy, planning, campaign management, and analysis reporting, and the tools and platforms used
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.
At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply.
Even if you don't think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.
Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process.
If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, including the use of AI tools throughout the hiring process, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.
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