Associate Manager, Growth Media Strategy (Temporary)

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Job Description

About the Role

The Associate Manager, Growth Media Strategy oversees paid digital media strategy for our acquisition program. You will report to the Senior Manager, Growth Media Strategy. The Enterprise Paid Acquisition team works on projects in service of enterprise subscription growth, making decisions to ensure we maximize the return of our ad spend across products, including the All Access bundle, Cooking, Games and The Athletic.

In this role, you’ll manage campaign development, activation, optimization and reporting. You will work with cross-functional partners internally, and lead external media agencies that assist us in helping us reach our goal to achieve 15 million subscribers by 2027. 

This role is a temporary position initially expected to last for 6 months.

Responsibilities:

• Provide performance reports and insights for weekly, monthly and quarterly analysis, including ad hoc analysis to determine short and long-term optimizations and support forecasting needs.  

• Use past insights, data visualizations, and research to develop POVs and share media expertise with the immediate and broader team in both written and verbal formats. 

• Manage detailed media budgets, allocations, and delivery across multiple campaigns and vendors to maximize return on ad spend. 

• Manage agency relationships, guiding campaign execution, approving optimization recommendations, and enhancing performance through demonstrated understanding, analysis and optimization of media. 

• Foster strategic vendor relationships, vetting new media offerings and identifying partnership opportunities that unlock stronger results with media. 

• Work with Audience Insights, Data Insights, and external platform partner teams to develop learning agendas and testing scenarios. 

• Develop strong working partnerships with with Creative, Marketing, Newsroom and Social teams to align on promoted cross-platform content, creative, and messaging strategy. 

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience managing digital media

• 2+ years managing cross-channel media

• 2+ years hands-on experience managing social and display campaigns

• Experience with social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat) 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in growth marketing

• Experience in mobile marketing

• Excellent budget and vendor management skills

The annual base pay range for this role is between $85,000 and $100,000.

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