Director, Planning & Data

<div class="content-intro"><p>Brainlabs is the media agency built to answer one question: what's actually driving profit? Founded in 2012 by Daniel Gilbert, we were built by engineers before we were a media agency. Today, 1,000+ Brainlabbers across five continents use our proprietary agents, built on 32 media tools and over 2,500 logged experiments, to help brands connect every channel they plan and buy to one thing: the bottom line.</p></div><p>Role type: Full-time</p> <p>Team: Planning Team</p> <p>Reporting to: Chief Planning &amp; Data Officer</p> <p>Estimated Start: August 2026</p> <p>Location: New York City, New York</p> <p>Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship or continuation for this position.</p> <p><strong>What's the role&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>We're building agentic media planning at Brainlabs. This role owns how it works.</p> <p>You'll own the underlying process, contribute to refining it over time, and support the 3rd party integrations that power it. You will be responsible for the bridge between our planners and the media our agents run on. This is not about delivering campaigns, this is refining and running the processes and tech that does.</p> <p><strong>So, tell me about the company</strong></p> <p>Brainlabs is culture-first. You’ve probably heard other companies describe themselves as people, clients, or profit first – but we see people, clients and profit as the building blocks of our ecosystem. Culture powers all three and we know that when the ecosystem is balanced, we all win! That's why the culture we cultivate is a culture of winning together.</p> <p>To learn more about what it’s like to be a Brainlabber, check out our<a href="https://www.brainlabsdigital.com/the-brainlabs-culture-code/"> culture code.</a></p> <p><strong>What you do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the end to end media planning process across national and local, digital and offline</li> <li>Document, refine, and continuously improve how planning gets done at Brainlabs</li> <li>Own the technical integrations behind the process including APIs, data feeds, and connections to media planning data and tech providers</li> <li>Partner with product and engineering to spec, build, and ship tooling that supports the workflow</li> <li>Translate planner needs into clear technical requirements</li> <li>Validate that automated outputs match what an experienced planner would produce</li> <li>Manage delivery across multiple stakeholders and deadlines</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who you are</strong></p> <u