Brand Paid Media Manager

Highlights

• Lead top-of-funnel media across TV, podcasts, OOH and streaming at scale.
• Build measurement frameworks linking brand activity to long-term growth.
• Partner with creative teams to shape campaigns for technical audiences.

Ideal candidate

Truth-seeking, passionate creative marketer with strong instincts for audience, culture and creative paired with analytical discipline to guide investment decisions. Thrives with high ownership in fast-moving environments and shaping brand perception at scale.

Requirements

• Experience planning and buying brand media across television, podcasts, out-of-home, streaming audio, or connected TV
• Track record of managing meaningful media budgets and making disciplined investment decisions
• Strong knowledge of media planning fundamentals including reach, frequency, audience composition and media mix
• Experience working directly with media partners, publishers, networks, or agencies
• Confidence negotiating placements, pricing, contracts, and added-value opportunities
• Strong understanding of brand measurement and challenges of evaluating top-of-funnel marketing
• Experience with brand-lift studies, incrementality testing, media mix modeling or geographic experiments
• Excellent creative judgment and ability to assess ideas across different channels
• Analytical mindset and comfort with campaign data, spreadsheets, dashboards, and performance models
• Ability to turn complex results into clear insights and recommendations
• Strong project-management skills coordinating campaigns with many stakeholders
• Comfort operating with high ownership in a fast-moving environment
• Curiosity about media, culture, and audience behavior and willingness to test unconventional opportunities