Top Benefits
About the role
Critical Mass is hiring a Media Director, Investment to join our growing team. As the Media Director, you drive the strategic use of media to impact our client’s business performance. You will lead a team of dedicated professionals, oversee omnichannel media strategies, and leverage your expertise in B2B investment planning and buying to deliver exceptional results across paid search, social, programmatic, display, content syndication, video/YouTube, and more.
You Will
- Act as a media expert for internal team’s consultation
- Design and share search POVs and case studies across the business and develop cross-discipline communication planning and drive synergy with Paid Social, Programmatic, Display, Content Syndication, etc.
- Engage with planning team and clients to build a strong understanding of their needs and how they can best utilize search media for their competitive advantage
- Establish and maintain strong partnerships with relevant media partners in the media ecosystem (i.e. Google, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
- Oversee and provide guidance on long term strategic plans respective of the client’s business goals including but not limited to annual and quarterly planning, QBRs and EOC reports
- Oversee and contribute to in person meetings on a monthly/quarterly basis to build and maintain a deep-rooted partnership driving excitement for paid search opportunities
- Uncover/understand objectives, challenges and needs by performing regular client needs assessments, check-ins, and interfacing regularly with senior level
- Stay abreast of and disseminate relevant industry trends to keep the brand atop of the latest paid search opportunities
- Manage and lead and grow a team search professional varying in roles and responsibilities
- Allocate resources to allow for both meeting the client's current needs but also investing and focusing efforts for future growth
- Facilitate communication and process between team and internal as well as external stakeholders to collectively attain client objectives
- Act as the main point of escalation for the internal and external teams to quickly troubleshoot questions, concerns, or challenges
- Participate in weekly team meetings to provide insight into leadership viewpoints, client priorities and industry trend updates
- Analytically extract insight/actions from data and relate the “story” back to planning team/client’s business goals
- Lead search innovation and vision- regarding new products and enhancements
- Identify and test new channels and products, highlighting results and sharing across organization and with external clients
- Negotiate partnership opportunities on behalf of the client to ensure the most value for the respective investment
- Partner with publishers to influence roadmap and future product rollouts on respective of client business goals
You Have
- Proven experience in omnichannel media execution and buying, preferably in B2B or tech sectors
- Expertise in video, display, YouTube, Amazon, OOH, and other relevant channels
- Established relationships with media partners in the media ecosystem (i.e. Reddit, Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, etc.)
- Demonstrated team management and leadership experience, including mentoring and performance oversight
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret campaign data and optimize for ROI
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience managing media budgets and delivering campaigns on time and on budget
What We Offer
- Global maternity and parental leave
- Competitive benefits packages
- Vacation, compassionate leave, personal/sick days, and flex days
- Access to online services for families and new parents
- Early Dismissal Friday’s (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
- 13 affinity groups
- Internal learning and development programs
- Enterprise-wide employee discounts
The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week. Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com, omc.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly. *If U.S. based: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams#avoid
If Canada based: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/finance/consumer-affairs.html
If U.K. based: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion\_consumidor/consejos\_practicos.aspx*
About Critical Mass
Critical Mass is a team of 1,800 inspired folks based in 12 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients.
We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.
We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!
Top Benefits
About the role
Critical Mass is hiring a Media Director, Investment to join our growing team. As the Media Director, you drive the strategic use of media to impact our client’s business performance. You will lead a team of dedicated professionals, oversee omnichannel media strategies, and leverage your expertise in B2B investment planning and buying to deliver exceptional results across paid search, social, programmatic, display, content syndication, video/YouTube, and more.
You Will
- Act as a media expert for internal team’s consultation
- Design and share search POVs and case studies across the business and develop cross-discipline communication planning and drive synergy with Paid Social, Programmatic, Display, Content Syndication, etc.
- Engage with planning team and clients to build a strong understanding of their needs and how they can best utilize search media for their competitive advantage
- Establish and maintain strong partnerships with relevant media partners in the media ecosystem (i.e. Google, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
- Oversee and provide guidance on long term strategic plans respective of the client’s business goals including but not limited to annual and quarterly planning, QBRs and EOC reports
- Oversee and contribute to in person meetings on a monthly/quarterly basis to build and maintain a deep-rooted partnership driving excitement for paid search opportunities
- Uncover/understand objectives, challenges and needs by performing regular client needs assessments, check-ins, and interfacing regularly with senior level
- Stay abreast of and disseminate relevant industry trends to keep the brand atop of the latest paid search opportunities
- Manage and lead and grow a team search professional varying in roles and responsibilities
- Allocate resources to allow for both meeting the client's current needs but also investing and focusing efforts for future growth
- Facilitate communication and process between team and internal as well as external stakeholders to collectively attain client objectives
- Act as the main point of escalation for the internal and external teams to quickly troubleshoot questions, concerns, or challenges
- Participate in weekly team meetings to provide insight into leadership viewpoints, client priorities and industry trend updates
- Analytically extract insight/actions from data and relate the “story” back to planning team/client’s business goals
- Lead search innovation and vision- regarding new products and enhancements
- Identify and test new channels and products, highlighting results and sharing across organization and with external clients
- Negotiate partnership opportunities on behalf of the client to ensure the most value for the respective investment
- Partner with publishers to influence roadmap and future product rollouts on respective of client business goals
You Have
- Proven experience in omnichannel media execution and buying, preferably in B2B or tech sectors
- Expertise in video, display, YouTube, Amazon, OOH, and other relevant channels
- Established relationships with media partners in the media ecosystem (i.e. Reddit, Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, etc.)
- Demonstrated team management and leadership experience, including mentoring and performance oversight
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret campaign data and optimize for ROI
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience managing media budgets and delivering campaigns on time and on budget
What We Offer
- Global maternity and parental leave
- Competitive benefits packages
- Vacation, compassionate leave, personal/sick days, and flex days
- Access to online services for families and new parents
- Early Dismissal Friday’s (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
- 13 affinity groups
- Internal learning and development programs
- Enterprise-wide employee discounts
The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week. Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com, omc.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly. *If U.S. based: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams#avoid
If Canada based: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/finance/consumer-affairs.html
If U.K. based: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion\_consumidor/consejos\_practicos.aspx*
About Critical Mass
Critical Mass is a team of 1,800 inspired folks based in 12 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients.
We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.
We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!