Executive Director, Video Investment

Title: Executive Director, Video Investment

Location: New York City United States

Job Description:

We are OMD, Cannes Lions 2024 Media Network of the Year, RECMA's Best-Performing Media Network Globally, and COMvergence's #1 Global Agency Network. As the world's largest media network, with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries, we excel at making better decisions, faster. By combining innovation, creativity, empathy, and evidence, we help clients move faster, reach further, and take smarter risks in a world full of opportunities

We pride ourselves on being a people-obsessed, outcomes-focused business that applies evidence and data-based solutions, married with the practice of empathy, to drive performance and growth. When working with our clients, we put ourselves in the shoes of the consumer in order to see the world through their eyes. We focus on finding greater empathy with the consumer so as to uncover insights and opportunities that deliver more valued and valuable connections.

What You Can Expect:

Our success is underwritten by our core principles:

• Dynamic diversity. Bringing diversity of perspective, skillset, and background, as well as the mix of ages, genders, ethnicities, skillsets & backgrounds.
• Radical collaboration. Connecting a diverse group of people through instinctive structures, skills and mindsets.
• Rapid prototyping. Fostering a mindset of curiosity in which our people are always building, testing, evolving and retesting hypotheses. All of which is underpinned by a commitment to total transparency.

As an Executive Director, you will play a critical role leading the day-to-day set up and optimization of performance campaigns across video channels. You will lead the team as the main point of contact for the strategy to improve campaign performance. You will define, execute, and optimize media channel strategies and initiatives ensuring that pacing, performance and the investment process is activated seamlessly to meet the client's goals and KPI's.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of work experience with 4+ years of experience successfully leading video investment teams
• In-depth understanding of video campaign management and digital direct optimization practices
• Strong program management and organizational skills, being able to manage multiple projects at once and enjoying working in a fast-paced, results-oriented agency
• Strong leadership and management skills, and committed to nurturing, training, and growing your team
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and be a team player with client business lead and other strategists and peers to deliver top quality work that exceeds the client's goals and KPI's
• Demonstrated ability to extract analytical insights, tell a story, and deliver recommendations with rationale
• Retail industry experience a plus

Responsibilities:

• Develop short and long-term investment activation strategy based on the client's stated business objectives, implement those plans, and achieve key metrics (KPIs)
• Extract insight/actions from data and relate the "story" back to client's business goals
• Organizational and leadership capabilities to assign resources, track progress, assist in execution and consistently plan programs through supervision of your team
• Present and lead strategic and tactical plans with clients, staff, and internal teams
• Provide regular insights and training to challenge and develop team members
• Facilitate and manage campaign creation, forecasting, budgeting, pacing, and optimization
• Understand business concepts and client objectives to identify campaign expansion opportunities
• Manage agency partner or technology relationships needed to support campaign initiatives
• Show innovation and thought leadership with new solutions and pilot opportunities as appropriate
• Provide feedback and input for the development of the annual roadmap and learning agenda

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

Compensation Range

$185,000-$200,000 USD

This role is hybrid, requiring three (3) days per week in the office. The remaining two (2) days may be worked remotely. Specific in-office days will be discussed during the interview process, with flexibility to align with team needs. Please note that the number or required in-office days may be adjusted over time, potentially increasing the number of required in-office days based on business needs.

OMD is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.