Media Director

We’re VaynerMedia! We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. 

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly servicing multi-brands across the region.

The PITCH.

We’re looking for an Media Director to support and lead the continued growth of Media in the region by providing insights-driven media and measurement strategies, strengthening client & partner agency relationships, collaborating with cross-departmental teams, while growing and mentoring the media team!

You will report into our VP or Media and will work on a cohesive team consisting of buying, planning and analytics professionals working across several EMEA-based clients such as Bose, Meta and Indeed

Here’s where you come in…

• Oversee a team of media buyers providing leadership, mentorship, vision and technical expertise.   As well as regularly meeting to get feedback, provide council, discuss problems or successes, etc.
• Act as the key contact for client and platform partners, operating as a go-to voice and leader.
• Lead check-ins with key account and media counterparts to ensure projects are moving ahead and are thoughtful, high quality, and exceeding client expectations.
• Develop and deliver sophisticated media investment strategies to clients, derived from industry insights and QA reporting.
• Create media plans, assist in presentation material creation, and provide strategic guidance on reporting calls with clients.
• Collaborate across agency disciplines to craft best-in-class, holistic omnichannel media strategies rooted in driving tangible business outcomes for large brands.
• Continue to establish internal policies and POVs on agency partnerships, the general digital media landscape, and current client business cases. Provide thought leadership around how the unit of business should be run, in tandem with setting both internal and external expectations as to the realities of daily business execution.
• Manage up to senior leadership corresponding to the most crucial aspects of a client's business, keeping them abreast of any pertinent developments and urgent client needs.
• Work to proactively bring new/emerging opportunities to clients, pushing the envelope of media excellence.
• Forge new relationships with clients, and ultimately maintain account/s for the well-being of the immediate team and the larger agency.
• Work in conjunction with HR/PET to teach, engage, and grow direct reports and provide a positive work environment. 

We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

• A minimum 6+ years of industry experience working in platform with a proven track record of executing sophisticated, large scale digital media programs that drove tangible business outcomes.
• A proven track record of large-scale media buying proficiency across several buying/ biddable platforms with particular depth in the following:  Choose the platform needed for this specific role and place the “nice to haves” below
• Social: Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, LinkedIn, TikTok
• Amazon (AMS, Amazon DSP, AMG)
• Programmatic Display/Video (DV360, The Trade Desk, AppNexus, etc.)
• Publisher/Partner Direct
• Connected TV/OTT (Roku, Hulu, etc.)
• Digital Audio (Spotify, Pandora, etc.)
• Paid Search (Google, Bing, Amazon)
• Fluency with analytics, attribution and measurement systems.  Including but not limited to:
• Google Analytics
• MOAT/IAS/Double Verify
• Nielsen/Millward Brown/Oracle Measurement
• Experience working with attribution partners
• MTA: VIQ, Neustera
• Foot Traffic: Placed, 9th Decimal, PlaceIQ,
• Call Attribution: Dialogtech 
• Ability to lead by example in terms of attention to detail, general work ethic, empathy and internal/external professionalism.
• You live for today’s digital & mobile consumer and is passionate about developing brand-specific strategies and constantly seeks out innovative partners/platforms to identify new opportunities.
• An individual who demonstrates the ability to navigate a portfolio of brands within a larger conglomerate or business group, gain an understanding of their unique company architectures, to build and strengthen relationships with essential stakeholders
• A person that is well versed in media who can utilize resources to help guide client’s marketing goals in their respective markets (syndicated, proprietary, analyst data)
• Understand and adopt new techniques and technologies that are relevant for clients’ media strategies (with a calm and cool demeanor!)

What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class.