Director, Digital Strategy

About The Role

As a Director, Digital Strategy, you will be driving performance, guiding account teams and orchestrating growth for top advertisers. This role is for you if you relish managing large client relationships, as well as guiding digital paid media strategy across paid search, social & programmatic (video and display) advertising. While managing client relationships you’ll be an account sponsor for some of our largest accounts while guiding digital paid media strategy with cross-channel integration and strategic activation of channels such as (but not limited to) search, shopping, social, display, video, ecommerce, and affiliate.

We are looking for someone with a passion for digital marketing who wants to join a fast-growing, fun digital agency that is hyper-focused on client performance and ROI. You’ll be working at the intersection of online advertising execution and fast start up growth. The ideal candidate is confident in their ability to drive improvements in account performance, but also to manage and develop some of our awesome talent.

• Serve as the main point of contact and client team lead for 2-3 clients with $500k/mo+ in ad spend
• Build, manage, and maintain the client relationship
• Revenue & retention responsibilities for your accounts
• Drive overall account strategy, forecasting, and planning for your accounts
• Analyze performance data and KPIs
• Lead expansion into new digital paid media channels to facilitate growth
• Familiar with sensitive advertising groups such as cryptocurrency or healthcare
  
  
  

About You

• 7+ years of paid performance digital marketing experience
• Ideally have experience working with B2B and B2C clients
• Experience forecasting and allocating digital marketing budgets across channels
• Comfortable digging into the weeds of reporting and ability to present best in class measurement strategies specific to your clients needs (familiarity with MTA, MMA, incrementality testing)
• Performance marketing specialist but familiar with upper funnel and brand marketing best practices
• You are a communication guru when presenting digital marketing strategy to C-Suite and executive audiences
• You frequently find yourself stepping into leadership roles and want those around you to succeed
• Not afraid to get in the weeds, but still able to see the trees, forest, and ecosystem
• ‘Driven’ and ‘Innovative’ are attributes commonly associated with you
• 4-year college degree or equivalent work experience
• Comfortable optimizing toward back-end metrics from a CRM such as Salesforce
  
  
  

Please note that even if you do not meet all of the above criteria, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits

What We Offer

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Media.Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)
  
  
  

Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Media.Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range$118,000—$139,000 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.

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