Associate Media Director

Important note from hiring manager

This is a great role for a current agency media supervisor that has outgrown their current role and is ready for an opportunity to prove themselves in a fast paced and less corporate environment.

Why you want to work at Darwin AI (darwinsoftware.io)

The digital advertising ecosystem is changing and Darwin is leading the charge using technology to optimize data-driven creative across social platforms.

We believe that performance is at the heart of every marketing campaign and we are building best in class technology to improve our client’s digital performance.

Our leadership has 30+ years experience in ad tech. We love to share our experience with those eager to learn, and there’s plenty of opportunity to contribute to the growing Chicago-based team.

We need your expertise to help build the best possible product that aligns with our clients needs and pushes data driven creative tech further into the forefront of digital media.

About the Role

The Associate Media Director will lead our team of talented Data Analysts to manage all day to day operations and ensure flawless execution in both media and creative executions.

This leadership role offers abundant growth opportunities and the ability to grow within the team and the company. As a startup environment, you will wear many hats and have lots of opportunities to make an impact, above and beyond a typical agency-oriented role.

Responsibilities

We want you to become the leader of all day to day operations for our accounts team. You will lead the accounts team on paid social strategy and execution and become single point of contact with senior leadership. Daily monitoring of team means ensuring team priorities are on track to deliver against client and business goals and team members are effectively managing their time (healthy work/life balance).

Our primary focus is on social buying and optimization, so we expect you to have expertise in creation and QA’ing ads across all social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, etc); includes training junior talent on above and maintaining expertise to serve as auditor and point of escalation for media execution challenges of team.

A unique challenge of this role is our devotion to data driven creative testing to drive performance for our clients. You will use our technology to identify insights and work with contractors (designers, animators, illustrators, etc.) to create data driven creative.

Qualifications

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment
• 3-4 Years agency experience required
• 1-2 Year management experience required
• 1-2 Years experience executing campaigns on the Facebook platform (bonus points for other platforms)
• Outstanding persuasive communication skills in person, over the phone, and through written channels
• Excellent attention to detail and strong prioritization skills

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• Management: 1 year (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Required)

Location:

• Chicago, IL (Required)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday