Media Director

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Lead and mentor a high-performing team while defining innovative media strategies that drive measurable outcomes for top-tier clients across various platforms.

Remote – U.S. & Canada Only | Full-Time | $100,000–$125,000 USD

We’re Not Hiring a Manager.
We’re Hiring a Paid Media Leader Who Shapes Strategy, Growth, and Impact.

Level Agency — now strengthened by our recent acquisition of BAM Strategy, a digital experience and loyalty leader — is hiring a Media Director to lead, elevate, and accelerate media strategy for top-tier clients across performance and lifecycle disciplines. This is a rare opportunity to lead a high-performing team, define cutting-edge paid media strategies, and help brands win in an increasingly complex digital ecosystem.

If you thrive on data, love turning insight into action, and get energized by coaching teams to do their best work — this is your moment.

This Isn’t for Everyone

We’re building something rare: a place where growth, truth, and performance go hand-in-hand.

You’ll thrive here if:
✅ You lead teams with clarity, empathy, and accountability
✅ You transform data into compelling strategy and measurable outcomes
✅ You love pioneering new ways media works across platforms and channels
✅ You champion experimentation, optimization, and performance storytelling
✅ You embrace AI as a multiplier for speed, insight, and innovation

And you’ll struggle here if:
❌ You wait for direction instead of owning outcomes
❌ You treat innovation or data as optional
❌ You avoid direct client communication or accountability
❌ You don’t enjoy coaching or developing others

About Level (and BAM Strategy)

Level is an AI-powered performance marketing agency — built for precision, designed to scale, and driven by results. In 2025, Level acquired BAM Strategy, combining Level’s strengths in media, analytics, and machine intelligence with BAM’s expertise in digital experience, CRM, personalization, and loyalty strategy.

Together, we support 150+ clients across B2B tech, ecommerce, education, healthcare, CPG, and more. Our 250-person team operates fully remote across North America, bringing deep expertise in performance media and full-funnel customer growth.

In this role, you will operate at the intersection of Level’s media muscle and BAM’s customer-lifecycle strengths — helping clients not only reach audiences, but engage, convert, and keep them.

Your Role (and Impact)

As Media Director, you will lead strategic planning, execution, and optimization of performance media campaigns across search, social, programmatic, and emerging channels. You’ll own media strategy for a dedicated client portfolio, lead and mentor a team, and partner cross-functionally to deliver measurable business results.

You will:

Leadership & Strategy

  • Lead, inspire, and develop a team of media strategists and managers
  • Own paid media strategy that aligns to client business goals and drives measurable outcomes
  • Translate brand, performance, and growth objectives into campaign roadmaps and KPI frameworks

Campaign & Media Planning

  • Direct media planning and forecasting models that inform channel mix, budgets, audience strategies, and pacing
  • Ensure paid media campaigns launch on time, within budget, and with clear measurement approaches

Data & Performance Storytelling

  • Use data — both quantitative and qualitative — to define success metrics, evaluate performance, and recommend next steps
  • Build compelling performance narratives, supported by data visualization, insights, and action plans

Client & Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Present strategic media recommendations to client stakeholders with clarity and confidence
  • Partner with account management, analytics, creative, and tech teams to align execution to objectives
  • Manage client expectations, budgets, resourcing, and team performance

Industry Expertise & Agency Impact

  • Maintain deep knowledge of paid media trends, best practices, and platform innovations
  • Contribute to our broader Media Center of Excellence to amplify strategic approaches across the agency

Requirements

What You Bring

  • Proven track record leading paid media strategy and campaign performance across search, social, programmatic, and retail platforms
  • Strong leadership experience with proven team development and mentorship success
  • Deep analytical instincts and comfort with performance interpretation, forecasting, and optimization
  • Excellent communication skills — from internal team leadership to clear client presentations
  • Proficiency with media analytics and visualization tools (Excel, PowerBI or equivalent, web analytics)
  • A bias for continuous learning and experimentation — especially with new tools and methodologies

Preferred Experience

  • Agency experience leading multi-channel media teams
  • Experience integrating generative AI into media workflows
  • Familiarity with advanced attribution, experimentation frameworks, and data-driven media planning

AI Expectations

At Level, AI is a core skill — not an afterthought. In this role, you will:

  • Constantly experiment with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and platform-native AI capabilities
  • Use AI to accelerate insight generation, strategic analysis, and efficiency
  • Document and share prompts, workflows, and learnings with your team
  • Treat AI as a force multiplier, not a shortcut

Our expectation: you lead by example in AI integration — evolving how media strategy gets smarter, faster, and more impactful.

Our Core Values

  • No Ego, All In
    We win together — boosting others, owning outcomes, and never hiding behind hierarchy.
  • Better Every Day
    Feedback fuels us — especially when it stings.
  • Relentless for Results
    Activity without impact isn’t work — it’s noise.
  • Driven by Truth
    We make decisions based on data, not assumptions.

Benefits

Compensation
$100,000–$125,000 USD depending on experience and qualifications.

Perks & Benefits

  • Remote work from anywhere in the U.S. or Canada
  • Unlimited PTO + generous leave programs
  • Summer Fridays
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Employer舉contributed retirement with 100% vesting
  • Biannual performance reviews
  • Career advancement pathways
  • Monthly WFH stipend (paid quarterly)
  • Virtual and in-person company events
  • Peer recognition programs
  • Concierge support services
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Remote First
This role is open to U.S. and Canada residents.
We are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

Level Is Built on Inclusion
We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB).
Level is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer — we celebrate what makes you, you.

Ready to Apply?

Click below to submit your resume. You’ll also answer a few thoughtful questions — take your time.
We care more about how you think than where you’ve worked.
Let’s build something together.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Home Office Stipend: Monthly WFH stipend (paid quarterly)
  • Other Benefit: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO + generous leave programs
  • Remote-Friendly: Remote work from anywhere in the U.S. or Canada

Level Agency is a leading full-service interactive agency headquartered in Pittsburgh. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.Exceptional performance is rewarded. Ideas are encouraged. Executives and supervisors are accessible. The employees who excel are superb time managers who are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, juggling multiple projects and seeking new opportunities to contribute. Whether that means learning a new skill, introducing a new tool to the agency, assuming a leadership role, or improving our overall efficiency. Employees of Level Agency receive the following benefits: Competitive compensation Performance reviews every six months Generous PTO policy Paid Parental Leave Ability to develop and refine skills with career advancement opportunities Great medical benefits with the region's top plan 401K 3% employer match contribution Employee appreciation programs Working with an awesome group of really intelligent people!

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