Media Manager
$110,000–$155,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead paid media strategy and agency management across TV, CTV, OOH, audio, social, and search channels. Set direction, write briefs, and run planning cycles and QBRs while holding partners accountable for performance and business results. Interrogate agency recommendations to catch weak rationale, frequency risks, and budget misallocations before approval. Own media budget pacing, forecasting, and mid-flight reallocations in partnership with Finance. Define KPIs, measurement frameworks, and test-and-learn agendas beyond CPMs to drive efficiency and cost-per-outcome. Distill campaign performance into clear recommendations for leadership and align media plans with Brand, Growth, and Product teams.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of media planning and strategy experience, either brand-side managing external agencies or at a media agency serving major consumer brands
- Demonstrated experience independently reviewing and challenging agency media plans, not just executing against them
- Experience managing multi-million dollar media budgets across concurrent campaigns, including pacing, forecasting, and mid-flight reallocation
- Fluency across the full channel landscape: TV/CTV, online video, OOH, audio/podcasts, paid social, search, and programmatic — you can evaluate rates, rationale, and audience fit in any of them
- Strong command of media measurement: reach and frequency, brand lift, incrementality testing, and marketing mix modeling
- Sharp analytical skills; you can work from raw campaign data to find performance trends and budget inefficiencies, and you're at home in Excel
- Strong stakeholder management across Finance, Analytics, Creative, and agency teams; you write briefs people can actually work from
- AI-native: actively using AI tools to speed up analysis, reporting, and planning work — you're not just aware of them, you're using them daily
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and at speed; you don't need committee consensus to make smart decisions
- Based in or able to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area
Desired Qualifications
- Experience at a high-growth consumer tech, B2C, or AI company
- Agency alumni who've made (or want to make) the move to the client side
- Experience standing up a media function or measurement framework from scratch
- Experience with OOH and large cultural-moment buys (sponsorships, tentpole events)
- A point of view on how AI is changing media planning and buying — and what most brands get wrong about it
- Active Replit user; you've built and shipped something with the product
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