Senior Manager, Digital Investment

Media.Monks$90K — $105K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years in digital media, ideally with 2 years in programmatic buying or digital investment at an agency.
  • Hands-on experience with major DSPs like DV360 or The Trade Desk, with proficiency in campaign setup.
  • Ability to present digital media insights and strategies in a client-facing context.
  • Experience managing relationships with media vendors and addressing execution issues.
  • Strong analytical skills to interpret data and provide actionable recommendations.
  • Detail-oriented with technical fluency in digital media platforms and tracking.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement digital investment strategies aligned with client goals.
  • Oversee campaign activation across programmatic platforms, ensuring alignment with media plans.
  • Manage ongoing budget performance and optimize campaigns identifying risks and opportunities.
  • Troubleshoot various campaign and tracking issues, coordinating with internal and external teams.
  • Generate detailed performance reports with insights to inform campaign optimization.
  • Measure campaign effectiveness using quantitative and qualitative metrics, providing clear insights.
  • Present performance recaps and strategic recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous paid time off and 15 company-wide holidays.
  • 401k plan with company contributions.
  • Paid parental leave to support work-life balance.
  • Focus on personal well-being and work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for career growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial setting.
  • Inclusive culture with support for various employee resource groups.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Digital Investment Senior Manager role is part of the Media.Monks Digital Investment team. The Digital Investment team develops and executes digital media strategies across programmatic and direct media channels, including CTV, display, video, digital audio, native, and other emerging formats. The Senior Manager is a client-facing digital investment lead responsible for managing day-to-day media strategy and execution across a portfolio of clients. This role helps develop digital investment plans, oversees campaign activation and optimization, and is accountable for delivering against client objectives, budgets, and performance goals. The Senior Manager partners closely with account, strategy, paid social, paid search, analytics, creative, and operations teams and provides guidance and support to more junior team members to ensure high-quality delivery.
Responsibilities:
  • Develop and execute digital investment recommendations across programmatic and direct partners based on client objectives, audiences, budgets, and KPIs, partnering with account and strategy leads as needed.
  • Oversee programmatic campaign activation across DSPs, ensuring campaign structure, targeting, budgets, tracking, QA, and launch requirements are accurate and aligned to the media plan.
  • Manage in-flight pacing, budget management, optimization, and performance across assigned campaigns, proactively identifying risks and opportunities and recommending appropriate actions.
  • Troubleshoot trafficking, creative, publisher, platform, and measurement issues, coordinating with internal teams and third-party vendors and escalating more complex issues when appropriate.
  • Create and oversee performance reporting and analysis, providing data-driven insights and recommendations that support campaign optimization and client KPIs.
  • Measure campaign impact and effectiveness using relevant quantitative and qualitative metrics and translate results into clear insights and recommendations for clients and internal teams.
  • Present campaign recaps, performance insights, and strategic recommendations to account leads, strategic planners, and clients, with increasing ownership of client-facing conversations.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in digital investment execution across programmatic platforms and digital media channels, helping the team apply best practices.
  • Build and maintain relationships with publishers, media vendors, data partners, and platform representatives, supporting effective execution and identifying opportunities for client performance.
  • Provide guidance, mentorship, and quality oversight to Account Managers and other digital investment team members, helping strengthen technical skills, campaign execution, and problem-solving.
About You
The essentials:
  • 3-5 years of experience in digital media, with at least 2 years of hands-on programmatic media buying and/or digital investment experience, preferably agency-side.
  • Experience working with at least one major DSP, such as DV360, The Trade Desk and Amazon DSP with a strong understanding of campaign setup and optimization.
  • Experience presenting digital media performance, insights, and strategy in a client-facing setting.
  • Experience managing publisher, media vendor, data vendor, and/or platform partnerships directly, including communication, execution, and issue resolution.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret campaign data, identify trends, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
  • Strong attention to detail and technical fluency with digital media platforms, ad serving, tracking, measurement, and campaign QA.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple clients and priorities, collaborate across cross-functional teams, and take ownership of workstreams from planning through execution and reporting.

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

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What We Offer

Benefits
  • Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here!
  • Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
  • 401k with company contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
  • Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
  • A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
  • Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)


This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company's then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate's sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range:

$90,000-$105,000 USD

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