Saatchi & Saatchi

Director, Brand Experience

Saatchi & Saatchi$121K — $194K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of media planning experience
  • Experience in B2B and/or ABM
  • Previous management experience
  • Strategic campaign planning skills
  • Strong understanding of analytics for planning
  • History of identifying and implementing media opportunities
  • Experience monitoring media planning processes
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills

Responsibilities

  • Maintain knowledge of media industry news and brand business
  • Ensure team delivers strategic media recommendations
  • Lead day-to-day client interactions and relationships
  • Elevate critical thinking across the portfolio
  • Write and oversee audience plan strategies
  • Collaborate with analytics and research teams for implementation
  • Analyze audience strategies for case development
  • Facilitate team building and project management
  • Provide vision and direction to team members
  • Demonstrate technical understanding and problem-solving

Benefits

  • Medical coverage
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision coverage
  • Disability insurance
  • 401K plan
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Family forming assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible time off
Full Job Description
Overview

The Director, Brand Experience oversees the planning of all media campaigns across channels for a specific client. This person is a leader who contributes to the brand strategy and planning and builds solid relationships with clients and internal teams across all levels and functions. As the day-to-day point of contact for senior-level partners, the Director facilitates ongoing education for internal teams and clients, identifies new revenue growth opportunities, and provides team management and strategic insight.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain an in-depth knowledge of current media industry news and brand business (current and historical perspectives) with a focus on upstream initiatives
  • Ensure the team delivers sound strategic media recommendations based on a clear understanding of brand objectives
  • Lead the team and day-to-day client interaction and build, maintain, and grow client relationships and client business
  • Apply your experience to elevate critical thinking across the portfolio and set appropriate learning agenda elements
  • Write and deliver strategies and POV's as well as oversee the translation of these strategies into the final audience plans
  • Work with analytics and research teams to identify/apply findings and the investment and operations teams to ensure flawless implementation
  • Analyze client's audience strategies and work with internal groups to lead case development
  • Facilitate team building through collaboration, open communication, and focused project management to assure that assignments are completed in a timely manner
  • Provide vision, direction, management and support to individuals within the team to ensure their work aligns with our mission and goals
  • Demonstrate a deep technical understanding as well as problem solving and intervention when necessary

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of media planning experience
  • Experience in B2B and/or ABM
  • Previous management experience
  • Ability to strategically plan campaigns from audience determination, through how to best flight and implement campaigns to align with clients' strategic goals and KPIs
  • Strong understanding of analytics to inform and validate planning and strategy
  • History of identifying media opportunities, presenting them to clients, and implementing
  • Experience monitoring and recommending improvements to the entire media planning process
  • Ensuring people are adopting the best-in-class tools, techniques, systems to deliver effective media processes
  • Portfolio management of paid media for a large brand
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal along with visual storytelling), diplomacy, and relationship building and decision-making skills with the ability to think creatively.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: $121,315 - $194,220 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 06/26/2026.

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About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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