Sr. Specialist, Media Operations

Media.Monks$100K — $110K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Intermediate proficiency in at least three media platforms (like DV360, Google Ads, etc.)
  • Ability to identify problems and propose actionable solutions
  • Strong data manipulation and analytical skills
  • Experience leading meetings with structured agendas
  • Excellent organizational skills for managing multiple initiatives
  • Self-awareness and social skills for effective teamwork
  • Minimum of 3 years in a relevant media role

Responsibilities

  • Lead and execute media plans, ensuring effective client communication and training.
  • Own and manage client media strategies and campaigns, focusing on quality assurance.
  • Build and maintain strong client relationships, addressing their inquiries and troubleshooting issues.
  • Collaborate with team members to support day-to-day operations and mentor juniors as needed.
  • Continuously learn and share insights to enhance client services and internal processes.
  • Execute campaigns across various digital media platforms such as Programmatic, Social, and Search.
  • Utilize internal tools for task management and communication.

Benefits

  • Full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
  • 401k with company contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Emphasis on work-life balance and personal well-being
  • Career growth opportunities within the entrepreneurial Monks network
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
Full Job Description
About the Role
The Media Operations team is focused on hands-on-keyboard activation of digital channels - inclusive of tagging, trafficking, buying, & more - and how & where to use the right digital platforms, and use them well, to achieve media and business goals. We ensure consistency, governance, and support around platform usage and activation activities, and aid in all ongoing building, buying, optimization, and reporting efforts.

In this role, you can expect to support, own, manage, optimize and report on media campaigns for a portfolio of clients individually and as part of a broader team. Successful team members in this role will demonstrate the ability to lead ongoing and one-off media efforts for clients both individually and in strong collaboration with other team members, including mentorship opportunities. This is considered a remote/hybrid role, and you can expect to work with clients and other team members located across the US and/or internationally.
Responsibilities:
  • Lead the development and execution of media plans and independently own client communications and platform trainings. Use your knowledge of client business and collaboration skills to identify and action upon client service opportunities in partnership with internal teams. Your technical expertise will enrich the experience of junior team members, inclusive of proactively knowledge sharing and demonstrating best practices.
  • Own media strategy and campaign planning, builds, and ongoing management of our clients' media efforts, including QA
  • Build trust and rapport with clients and own client communications and updates, review requests and questions, and troubleshoot issues on platforms and media execution
  • Work effectively with team members to complete day-to-day tasks for both clients and internal efforts and actively seek opportunities to guide junior team members in need of assistance with tasks (internal and external)
  • Collaborate with peers to receive learnings, from both internal and external sources
  • Learn and act on explicit motivations/needs of both internal and external stakeholders, build baseline trust & rapport via written & verbal communication, and actively seek to understand and improve the client experience
  • Execute on media platforms across Programmatic, Social, and Search channels such as, but not limited to...
    • Programmatic DSPs: DV360, TTD, Amazon DSP, etc.
    • Ad Servers: Campaign Manager
    • Social Buying Platforms: Meta, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit
    • Search Engines & Search Management Platforms: Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, SA360
  • Utilize internal tools and processes for day-to-day work and task completion, e.g. Slack, GSuite, Salesforce, Workday, etc.
  • Keep up to date on Monks offerings and changes within the ad industry, and identify opportunities to enhance client services
About You The essentials:
We're looking for well-rounded team members who can demonstrate not only strong technical proficiency and professional communication skills, but also the ability to influence team members to produce skilled work and the initiative to gather relevant resources for the facilitation of client needs.
  • Intermediate proficiency in at least three platforms relevant to our Media team, and conceptual understanding of the Media landscape and how platforms fit into the ecosystem
    • Programmatic DSPs: DV360, TTD, Amazon DSP, etc.
    • Ad Servers: Campaign Manager
    • Social Buying Platforms: Meta, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit
    • Search Engines & Search Management Platforms: Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, SA360

  • Ability to identify and act on explicitly stated problems, roadblocks, and next steps
  • Ability to work with and contextualize data on a regular basis, including identification of necessary and/or helpful inputs, accurate and consistent manipulation of data sets, and analysis against data to identify trends, outliers, and/or important outputs
  • Ability to host 'professional grade' meetings, complete with agendas
  • Ability to meet self-imposed and external deadlines, honor and deliver on verbal & written commitments, exhibit attention to detail on own work and others' work, and an ability to utilize professional formatting on own work, and recognize areas for professional formatting improvement on own and other's work
  • Strong organizational skills to manage one-off tasks and larger or longer initiatives, and to manage your own work in conjunction with team needs and priorities
  • Strong self and social awareness skills, demonstrating an ability to moderate your own personal state and stress and recognize how to best work with clients, teams, and individual peers
  • Ability to recognize areas for improvement and develop others
  • Experience working in a professional setting with team members and clients
  • 3 years or more in a relevant Media role or environment

Note: The roles within our Media Operations organization can cross-discipline, therefore we do not specify channels in our titles. If you have experience in Search, Social, Programmatic, or any combination of these, please feel free to apply!
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: $100,000-$110,000 USD

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