Manager, Platform Activation

Job Description:

The Manager will be called upon for end-to-end campaign activation. The Manager is accountable for monitoring campaign performance and proactively ensuring optimizations are implemented to deliver against campaign goals. They provide oversight of QA and operational best practices. The Manager assists the Director with managing timelines and priorities to ensure deliverables are met. Beyond day-to-day team deliverables, they foster knowledge-sharing and support Directors with central tasks and are key to cultivating a culture of teamwork and collaboration. The Manager is expected to have a strong working knowledge of media, specifically programmatic media, inclusive of the associated tools, as well as the finance and compliance processes inherent in a media buying business. This role is a step toward greater leadership within the network.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Accountable for daily team operations and campaign excellence, ensuring best practices are evident in work of the activation/investment team

• Will own campaign activation, troubleshooting, and optimization

• You will articulate optimizations, rationale, results, and recommendations in reporting commentary and on client calls, and address concerns as needed

• Partner with the Director to generate RFP responses and develop tactical recommendations showcasing innovative thinking across platforms, audiences & content programs

• Be an expert on the buying platforms, direct media buying processes, and internal dentsu products

• Identify and test emerging tech solutions and innovations, highlighting client value in results and sharing across client team

• Ensure the team adheres to defined processes for campaign management across digital and programmatic channels, with extra oversight on hands-onkeys activation work

• Effectively manage expectations, timelines, and priorities

• Update team leads on team performance, campaign health, and strategic growth opportunities

• Contribute to thought leadership, POVs, or other shareable collateral that improves the overall level of knowledge across digital and programmatic investment teams

• You challenge accepted thinking and inspire new ideas and approaches.

• Balance, prioritize and properly assign work associated with multiple, concurrent projects

EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED:

• 5 years of experience within programmatic, specifically, and overall digital industry

• Strong experience across all digital media channels and ability to eloquently speak to each

• Proficient in programmatic/social technology, platform, and partner solutions, including but not limited to DSPs, ad servers, ad verification platforms, planning/financial platforms, DMPs, analytics & reporting dashboards, etc.

• Consistent, exceptional project management

The annual salary range for this position is $51,000-$83,375. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,

• Life insurance,

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,

• 401k,

• Flexible paid time off,

• At least 15 paid holidays per year,

• Paid sick and safe leave, and

• Paid parental leave.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

To begin the application process, please click on the "Apply" button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.

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