Job Description
Company Description
Our client is a commerce marketing agency focused on helping brands win wherever consumers shop and buy. By integrating strategy, analytics, creative, media, e-commerce, and trade marketing, they deliver end-to-end solutions across retail media networks, social commerce, e-commerce platforms, and in-store activations. Their work supports some of the world’s most recognizable brands.
Job Description
We’re looking for a senior Media Director to step into a role and own several client accounts from day one. This person will be responsible for media strategy, planning, execution, and campaign management across their assigned book of business, overseeing planning teams, serving as a primary client contact, and partnering cross-functionally with account, strategy, channel, and analytics teams to deliver strong results.
This is a role for someone who operates with a high degree of independence. The right candidate is proactive, relationship-driven, and capable of moving work forward across multiple accounts simultaneously without losing sight of the details. The ability to step into existing client relationships and establish trust and momentum quickly is essential. Experience with branding campaigns for CPG or grocery clients is a meaningful advantage.
Project Type: Contract
Role: Media Director
Rate: $69/hour
Location: Remote (CST or EST preferred)
Key Responsibilities
Account & Campaign Ownership: Serve as the day-to-day media lead across assigned accounts—owning strategy, planning, execution, and ongoing campaign management with accountability for performance and client satisfaction.
Media Strategy & Planning: Develop and oversee media strategies that align with client objectives, translating business goals into channel-appropriate, insight-driven media plans across relevant above-the-line and digital channels.
Planning Team Oversight: Manage and provide direction to assigned planning teams, ensuring work is on strategy, on deadline, and meeting the standards expected.
Primary Client Contact: Own the client relationship for designated accounts, leading status communications, presenting recommendations, addressing concerns proactively, and maintaining the trust and confidence of client stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with account management, strategy, media channel specialists, and analytics teams to develop integrated, well-rounded campaigns and ensure seamless execution across workstreams.
Campaign Management & Optimization: Monitor campaign performance, surface insights and optimizations in a timely manner, and communicate implications and recommended actions clearly to both internal teams and clients.
New Business Support: Contribute to new business pitch opportunities as needed bringing strategic media thinking and category knowledge.
Qualifications
7+ years of media planning and strategy experience, with demonstrated experience operating at the Director level or equivalent—owning accounts, leading teams, and managing senior client relationships.
Strong command of media strategy across channels, with experience developing both above-the-line brand campaigns and performance-oriented media plans.
Proven ability to manage multiple accounts simultaneously in a fast-paced agency environment, maintaining quality and client confidence across all of them.
Demonstrated experience leading or overseeing planning teams—setting direction, reviewing work, and developing junior talent.
Client-facing confidence and polish; able to establish credibility quickly with new client contacts and navigate nuanced relationship dynamics with ease.
Highly self-directed and proactive—comfortable operating with limited oversight and knowing when to escalate versus when to resolve independently.
Strong organizational and communication skills; able to manage competing priorities without dropping details or losing momentum on any account.
Agency background required.
Additional Information
We Are Rosie provides strategic consulting and talent solutions for the marketing industry. We partner with more than 200 of the world’s biggest brands and agencies to help them solve unique marketing challenges with the best people, swiftly and at scale. Founded by former advertising executive Stephanie Nadi Olson in 2018, We Are Rosie is on a mission to redefine how marketing works, with an inclusive, human-centric approach that’s better for business and better for marketers. Our company has been recognized as an industry trailblazer and earned many accolades, including being named to the 2023 Global Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces, the Inc. 5000 2022, and Adweek’s Fastest Growing Agencies in 2021.
We Are Rosie is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
