Director, Client Architects

Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are

Horizon Media, founded in 1989 by Bill Koenigsberg, is recognized as one of the most innovative marketing and advertising firms. We are headquartered in New York City, with offices in Los Angeles and Toronto. A leader in driving business solutions for marketers, Horizon is known for its highly personal approach to client service.  Renowned for its incredible culture, Horizon is consistently named to all the prestigious annual Best Places to Work lists published by Fortune, AdAge, Crain’s New York Business and Los Angeles Business Journal. Together we are building a place of belonging.

At Horizon, we understand the value that different perspectives can bring to our clients and culture, so we strive for an environment where our employees feel welcomed, safe and empowered. We value YOU and believe that your authentic voice and unique perspective allows us to create a more rewarding culture, and experience, together.

Our simple recipe for success? We hire talented people (thinkers, doers, dreamers, makers), challenge them and give them every opportunity to grow.

What Is blu.
Over the last three years we have been building from the ground up a Connected Marketing Platform, blu.  The foundation of this platform is an Identity Framework built upon our relationship with TransUnion, whose PII data acts as our identity spine. By integrating with agency partners who have deterministic data assets we have licensed and attached 10,000+ attributes to bridge the gap between martech and adtech to deliver a true 360 consumer view.  This enables brands to engage customers and prospects across all journeys.  Our portfolio of solutions and products are designed to complement a clients’ existing tech.

Proprietary insights tools enhance profiles with psychographic attributes and custom models identify and assign propensity against audiences based on KPIs.  We have a central, connected, user-friendly platform for insight to audience development and activation.

Job Summary

The Director, Client Architect acts as a day-to-day contributor on specific client teams focusing on omni-audience development and coordination with Traders and Traditional Activation teams for campaign implementation and measurement. The Director, Client Architect is an expert in leveraging Horizon’s proprietary Connected Marketing Platform called blu. to enable data-driven marketing and partners directly with Data Scientists on the accounts.  This role will be embedded within the Business Solutions team and assigned to a specific pod of accounts and report directly to a VP, Data Solutions.

In addition to client work, this role will be expected to be a contributor to content and use cases for new business.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

10%- Understanding Data Driven Marketing at Horizon

• Comprehensive understanding of how the blu. platform works and can be used.  This includes understanding all blu. data sources, data dictionaries, taxonomy, refresh cadence, how and where data can be accessed (UI, Snowflake, APIs).

• Ability to come up with use cases for clients on the spot.

45%- Insights & Planning

• Explore and defines seed audiences for audience strategy against business objectives by product using blu. and or client 1P data

• Directs Data Scientists on queries needed for insight development and or custom audiences (with oversight from VP+)

  • Define correct model

  • Dictate individual model inputs

  • Framework of business rules for query

• Review similarities and differences of attributes against audiences.  Uncover insights that lead to high value audiences through output investigation. Prioritize audiences against KPIs.

• Identifies use cases for usage of attitudinal data or custom survey work

• Provides input to Analytics team on KPI construct

• Size seed audiences, look alikes and availability of audiences by partner in blu.

• Based on comms goals, build screen & partner allocation based on objectives and audience deliveries

• Builds out audience architecture by product and KPI and against messages and landing pages

• Coordinates with client CRM team or other buying teams internally or externally on audiences and messages

• Works with platform activation teams who help recommend 2nd party and platform data that is needed based on client objectives

45% Activation & Optimization

• Finalizes audience architecture, avails, budgets

• Defines frequency goals with Digital and Traditional Activation teams

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