Media Planner, Strategy & Planning

In the Media Planner, Strategy & Planning position, you will serve as a key day-to-day member within the Planning and Strategy team on a key global technology account.  This role is key in creating paid media strategies across all channels, with the goal of increasing customer base and driving action throughout the consumer journey.  You will partner with client managers and the day-to-day team to ensure flawless execution of the business.  The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented, strategic-minded go-getter who can help manage an account while identifying business/media insights and seeing them through to action.  Sound like you? Then you might be a great fit for this role!

What you’ll do:

• Partner with strategy leads to to translate marketing objectives into actionable audience, channel, and investment strategies
• Identify and distill insights into compact, easy to understand language that provides clients with key takeaways for media improvement
• Learn, follow and demonstrate a strong understanding of internal policies/procedures
• Work closely cross-team to help drive success in meeting deliverables goals and integrated campaign program development/optimizations
• Develop and deliver appropriate target audiences and consumer insights to aid in message and media plan development
• Review, analyze and interpret research findings (both 3rd party and client-supplied) in order to fully optimize strategy and assess media effectiveness
• Help to recommend and arrange for appropriate quantitative and qualitative research on an as-needed basis

What we need of you:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Advertising, or a behavioral science field
• 3-5 years’ experience in integrated planning and account management
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a strong level of comfort presenting to internal stakeholders and clients
• High attention to detail, demonstrated through actions such as effectively proofing own and others’ work to ensure accuracy/thoroughness
• Ability to service a fast-paced, continually-evolving client by effectively managing timelines and deliverables of multiple projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of syndicated research tools and ability to analyze results, interpret data, draw sound conclusions, and develop insightful and actionable recommendations
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, leading to thoughtful recommendations, action plans, and campaigns that drive high ROI
• Knowledge of current media landscape and ability to identify/surface relevant trends
• Some working knowledge of Programmatic (DV360 preferred) and major Social platforms (Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit)

Plus:

• Knowledge of Ad Servers, campaign optimization tools, and/or online tracking technology preferred
• Knowledge of Google Ads Platform and Google Marketing Platform

What we offer:

• San Francisco* $65,000-85,000
  *Note: The is the anticipated salary range for this position annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. 
• Full coverage health insurance including Medical, Dental, and Vision
• 401K with Company contribution
• Flexible vacation time
• Paid Parental Leave
• Cell phone plan reimbursement

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About Media.Monks:

Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the most gifted, focused, joyful, talents from all over the world.

At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good. Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smart, efficient, high-impact engines for growth. We deliver table stakes quickly, creating cost efficiencies from day one to push up the creative effectiveness of our work with every cycle.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversit