Account Director
Liftoff Mobile
Media Director
Noble People
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York
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💰 $145,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- At Noble People, this position is called a Product Lead.
- Leads a cross-functional media team, ensuring that our media recommendations reflect Bold Ideas supported by No-Bull rationale. Coached by discipline heads, empowered by specialists and supported by a dedicated team of planners, the Product Lead is the acting strategy and planning lead, and is responsible for integrating activation and measurement throughout our strategic process.
- This individual is a star player, leading by example and rallying the supporting team around a common goal and focus: To produce award-winning, bold, strategic media campaigns that drive measurable business impact. This requires hands-on strategy and media planning experience and a working knowledge of activation and advanced analytics. A Product Lead recognizes the marketing opportunity, thrives on creativity, is methodical in their allocations, is thoughtful in their phasing and is focused on measurable outcomes.
- Reports to the Head of Planning
- Partners directly with Client Leads, who secure resources and client relationships
- Is coached by discipline leads (Strategy, Creative, Analytics, Activation, etc.)
- Is responsible for "The Strategy” and “The Plan” on pitch and Client Assignments
- Leads by example and maintains a growth mindset, actively doing, learning and seeking feedback to further improve
- Encourages initiative and bold ideas, actively working with developing team members to root them in No-Bull, data-informed rationale
- Adopts and builds on agency standards and frameworks, continually improving our work and operations
- Prepares regular, weekly priorities for resourcing discussions
- Assesses supporting talent, helping craft development and growth plans for planning team members
- Teaches and empowers fellow team members to be productive contributors
- Sets a high bar for creativity, strategic rigor, and account management that inspires the team
- Surface the most critical insights from our strategy and analytics teams
- Facilitate ideation sessions to inform media and activations, translating research and data into actionable insights.
- Implement frameworks connecting objectives, goals, media benchmarks, and KPIs, ensuring a structured, measurable approach to success.
- Acting strategy lead on assigned account(s), responsible for the communications strategy presentation, including our articulation of the opportunity, target audience, JTBD(s) and supporting communications architecture.
- Acting planning lead on assigned account(s), responsible for the annual planning, channel plans, tactical plans and overall day-to-day orchestration.
- Accountable for the buy recommendation, go-to-market strategy, learning plan, measurement plan and reporting templates.
- Clearly identifies and communicates key media deliverables, dependencies and accountability across internal and external timelines
- Delivers “high-scoring” work that is Honest, Bold and Original through our internal review process, Table Tops.
- Produces work that delivers on client goals and gains industry recognition for its creativity and results.
- Serve as day-to-day media practitioner to clients, providing regular timely deliverables and communicating assumptions, expectations and deadlinesResponsible for timely, bullet-proof product delivery - from strategy, though plan, activation and measurement
- Is accountable for flawless execution across financial operations and activation.
- Dependable contributor in new business efforts, helping to secure and expand client partnerships
- Strong presenter and communicator - can tell the story at the Executive and Tactical level
- Maintains thorough, up-to-date knowledge of client’s business (market share, business priorities, key competitor strategies, etc.), monitoring progress and accuracy of all communication plans, assignments and projects.
- Develops process, templates and standards for regular client deliverables
- Responsible for bulletproof delivery from strategy, plan and execution
Requirements
- At least 6-8 years experience as an established media leader with a demonstrated track record of translating a vision for the team into strategic insights and effective media solutions that deliver on client goals.
- At least 4-5 years experience leading and managing a team, cultivating individual development and career growth across different levels of employee.
- Exceptional written, verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of employees, vendors and clients. Ability to write concise, reasoned, and inspired media presentations, and present to clients effectively and confidently.
- A proven track record of consistently demonstrating sound creative, strategic, and analytical thinking skills, and championing innovative, bold and game-changing ideas.
- Ability to build and maintain strong interpersonal/professional relationships with employees, vendors, clients, etc.
- Demonstrated strong command of Media Research resources, capabilities and limitations.
- Demonstrated self-confidence (and track record) in championing innovative, bold and game-changing ideas.
- Strong math and analytical skills, with a firm understanding of strategy development and required media math.
- Demonstrated understanding of consumer insights and how to put insights into action.
- Skilled negotiator with a track record of open and fair negotiations.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Some travel and after hours and work required.
