Social media Jobs in Saint Paul, MN

Job Description:

As an Associate Director, you will be responsible overseeing the strategy and delivery of work for the media planning, activation, and campaign management team of top-tier retail media networks. You will develop and maintain an intimate knowledge of client businesses and ensure all client media requirements are accomplished in a timely and accurate manner. You will align the right resources to meet the client needs and you will provide coaching and guidance to your direct reports and team. You will work cross functionally with all teams to support and deliver against media, client, and company objectives. You will report to the Group Director of Media Strategy & Monetization.Responsibilities:

• Maintain an understanding of client business goals and marketing objectives and translate them into digital objectives/strategies.
• Remain up to date with the media marketplace and opportunities for our clients.
• Build internal/external client and stakeholder relationships.
• Develop client specific media best practices, SOPs, and ways of working.
• Drive alignment across internal and client teams for establishing processes, ways of working, and cross-functional roles and responsibilities.
• Identify challenges and process-related roadblocks, and problem solve internally and with the client.
• Oversee team workload including distribution of work and staffing across pods, capacity planning, and communicating staffing needs to senior management.
• Lead interviewing, hiring and training of new team members.
• Provide ongoing support to your team through regular feedback and weekly one-on-ones.
• Ensure that process documents are accurate and are kept current.
• Be an escalation point on planning and activation best practices, process, and campaign troubleshooting.
• Work on special projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in digital media monetization strategy, planning, activation and/or campaign management
• 2+ years of retail media experience, potentially specialty retail experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in a digital planning/buying role, including platform experience across programmatic DSPs (DV360, TTD, YouTube), paid social platforms (Meta, Pinterest, TikTok) and/or SSP/Ad Servers (GAM, DCM, Criteo, CAD)
• Experience working within OMS platforms (, Advendio) and workflow management systems (JIRA, Workfront, Monday)
• Experience with management of planning/buying on digital OOH platforms
• Comfortable working in a startup environment with changing workflows and priorities
• Desire for knowledge and innovation, keen to make a difference in a growing business with existing clients
• Experience managing a team
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

The annual salary range for this position is $68,000 -$110,400. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.Benefits available with this position include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit.To begin the application process, please click on the "Apply" button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.#LI-AD2#LI-remoteThis is a remote position.