Senior Media Manager | Titleist Golf Clubs

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Job Title: Senior Media Manager

Salary Range: $124,000 - $158,000 annually, plus bonus eligibility

Summary:  This role will report to the Vice President of Titleist Brand, with direct accountability to the Creative Director of Titleist Golf Clubs. As well as partner closely with the Titleist Brand Team and Balls Media to drive a complete golfer journey. Will oversee all aspects of media strategy, planning, and buying across both brand and performance channels for Titleist Golf Clubs, Vokey Design Wedges, and Scotty Cameron Putters. This leader will bring a deep understanding of the US media landscape and a proven track record in executing both brand-building (upper & middle funnel) and performance-driven (lower funnel) campaigns and must drive impactful media initiatives that align with our overarching business goals. The Senior Manager will lead all clubs media strategy, partnering with the clubs creative team to ensure that messaging best aligns with the respective media channels. This role will also work with cross-functional teams, including the clubs DTC sales team, Titleist brand team, and golf ball marketing teams to collaborate and manage key partnerships, and ensure that our media efforts drive measurable results. This senior manager must have a strong mix of creative and analytical skills, with proven success in integrating media strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Media Strategy & Planning: Evolve media approach into a well-balanced strategy that integrates both brand and performance media, ensuring a holistic and scalable impact. 
• Develop and execute comprehensive media strategies across US and provide guidance to key international markets, ensuring alignment with golf clubs objectives, market dynamics, and consumer insights. 
• Partner with Clubs Creative and Marketing teams to ensure alignment of media spend to key product launches and seasonal strategies. 
• Lead the integration of media strategies into broader marketing campaigns, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints. 
• Define and oversee media KPIs, ensuring clear alignment with club brand growth, market penetration, and direct response performance.
• Evaluate co-op media opportunities with top US customers, enabling strong ROI and holistic campaign delivery.
• Clubs Brand & Performance Media Oversight: Drive the strategy for both clubs brand-focused media (TV, print, digital) and performance media (paid search, programmatic, social, affiliates) to meet objectives across the full funnel.
• Ensure that clubs brand-building initiatives create long-term value while driving immediate consumer action through performance channels.
• Lead the evolution, evaluation and optimization of media performance, adjusting strategies based on real-time data and market feedback. 
• Media Leadership: Manage clubs media agency executions, ensuring briefs capture business and brand needs and deliver business requirements.
• Provide coaching and best practices around clubs media planning to regional marketing teams to ensure tailored media strategies that resonate with defined audiences.
• Monitor and assess regional media performance to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement. 
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with marketing, ecommerce, consumer insights, creative, retail and planning teams to ensure media strategies align with product launches, seasonal campaigns, and performance goals.
• Collaborate with data analytics teams to track performance metrics, consumer behaviors, and media effectiveness across markets. 
• Budget & Resource Management: Develop and manage large-scale media budgets, ensuri