Director, Retail Media

About January Digital 

January Digital is the Marketing Leadership Company. We solve business challenges through media excellence, strategic guidance, and actionable analytics. Our agency team handles full funnel media planning, execution, and optimization while our consulting team offers true strategic leadership for building successful marketing agencies. All our work is supported with a strong foundation of data and actionable insights which ensure our clients are as successful as possible.

As a company, our motto is to build a company that improves the lives of our clients, our people, and the world around us. We support this mission through a number of efforts including our WORKS program. Good Works is our philanthropy program that ensures we have an outsized impact on our surrounding communities through financial and volunteering efforts. Our Well Works program focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual health of our employees through required minimum PTO, an annual wellness stipend, fully paid health care, fully paid counseling services, extended parental leave, and much more.

Between our work and our culture, January Digital has been recognized more than 125 times, including being named a Best Place to Work by INC four times, Dallas Business Journal three times, one of Ad Age's Best Places to Work in 2025 and 2026, a 2024 NRF Partner of the Year, a seven-time INC 5000 fastest growing company, and numerous awards for our tactical and strategic excellence with innovative partners like Carhartt and Steve Madden.

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At January Digital, we combine deep expertise, creativity, and AI innovation to deliver meaningful results. Our team advances through continuous training that keeps us and our clients ahead. We seek candidates with proven AI skills in developing and refining AI inputs, effective use of key tools, and the ability to apply AI to real business challenges. Equally important are sharp critical thinking and a commitment to using AI responsibly to create lasting impact.

About the role

Team January Digital is looking to fill a Director, Retail Media for our agency team. This role is a strategic, client-services-focused leadership position responsible for shaping the future of January Digital’s Retail Media practice while driving growth, innovation, and executive-level client partnerships. The ideal candidate is strategic, data-driven, and has a proven track record in managing successful Retail programs and development of people. You will drive communication around retail industry trends and be a thought leader within your team and for your own clients. This role involves building and managing a team of media experts as well setting the strategy and execution guidelines for the retail practice across the agency. 

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior strategic lead across priority retail media accounts, owning executive-level client relationships and complex stakeholder conversations.
• Lead the development of retail media strategy, including annual roadmaps, investment frameworks, and long-term growth planning.
• Own the narrative for retail media across client engagements, ensuring clear, compelling storytelling in decks, QBRs, and high-impact deliverables.
• Translate performance insights into forward-looking strategic recommendations that guide investment decisions and unlock incremental growth.
• Partner closely with the Retail Media performance lead to align strategy with execution, ensuring seamless collaboration between planning and delivery.
• Play a central role in evolving and scaling January Digital’s Retail Media practice, refining positioning, frameworks, and go-to-market messaging.
• Establish best-in-class standards for strategic deliverables, client communication, and retail media thought leadership across the agency.
• Support new business and organic growth efforts by shaping retail media strategy in RFP responses, pitches, and upsell opportunities.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Performance Media, and Client Services leadership to integrate retail media into broader full-funnel planning and measurement strategies.
• Identify emerging Retail Media Networks and platform innovations, advising leadership on capability expansion and long-term product investment.
• Strengthen executive-level relationships with key retail media partners including Amazon and other RMNs.
• Mentor and elevate strategic thinking across the Retail Media team, while day-to-day execution and pacing remain led by dedicated performance managers.
• Drive account growth through proactive identification of expansion opportunities within existing client partnerships.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to support broader agency growth initiatives and long-term practic