Director, Digital Investment

Job Description

Directors are responsible driving the strategic direction for their brands and managing a team of digital and programmatic practitioners bringing to life successful campaigns across clients within the dentsu portfolio of agencies including Carat, dentsuX/360i, and iProspect. You understand the programmatic and digital landscape and have worked in and know how to navigate multiple platforms. You will have an entrepreneurial spirit and can operate independently to enhance the operational success of clients’ campaigns and overall goals. You are expected to employ and continually define state-of-the-art techniques to inspire creativity and excellent campaign performance through a deep understanding of digital technologies and experience with problem solving grounded in data. You will report into the VP, Digital Investment and can work remotely.

Main Accountabilities:

•       Define strategic direction of our accounts

•       Manage client relationships, priorities and deliverables through agency leadership

•       Manage team of programmatic and digital practitioners with a focus on leading team deliverables, encouraging individual growth across team

•       Ensure the team follows defined process for campaign management across digital and programmatic channels, including excellent hands-on-keys activation work

•       Inspire creativity for assigned brand(s) and share with digital and programmatic community

•       Manage monthly investment and revenue tracking across portfolio of clients

•       Communicates frequently with agency leads and client to connect on team performance, campaign health, and strategic growth opportunities

•       Frequent contributor to thought leadership projects

•       Always staying up to date on the latest dentsu activation and internal tools

•       Assist leadership with new business pitches

•       Establish quarterly plans that focus on account growth

Qualifications

•       7+ years’ experience in the programmatic and digital industry

•       Experience with management of a team- with the ability to lead a highly successful team

•       Experience across all digital media channels and ability to eloquently speak to each

•       Exceptional project management

•       Excellent verbal and written communications, presentation, and analytical skills

•       Collaboration mindset

•       Ability to retain professionalism in all situations

•       Detail-oriented with attention to project management and follow-through

•       Ability to prioritize multiple tasks

•       Solutions orientated with strong critical thinking abilities and problem-solving skills

•       Strong analytical thinking and mathematical skills

•       Proficient in programmatic technology, platform, and partner solutions

•       Experience working with business applications; MS Office Suite required

Additional Information

Our benefits include:

• Flexible paid time off
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Matching 401(k)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

The anticipated salary range for this position is $94,000-$152,375. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com

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About dentsu 
Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society www.dentsu.com. 

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed,