Intermediate Media Associate, Integrated

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Chicago, IL
In-Office
65K-75K Annually
AdTech • Marketing Tech
The Role

You will lead the creation, execution, and optimization of social and digital campaigns for a client’s large branding effort. Acting as the strategic digital media support, you’ll oversee budget and partner management, as well as ongoing performance optimization. You will collaborate across channels and departments and deliver data-driven insights and actionable performance reporting to clients. You’ll define and communicate media goals, ensure client satisfaction, and educate internal and external teams on the evolving landscape and emerging opportunities.

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

You will:

  • Assist in developing, executing, and presenting media plans (inclusive of social and digital platforms)
  • Oversee partner communication, RFP process, plan negotiations and proposal evaluation
  • Participate in client presentations and providing insight into digital recommendations
  • Work with Associate, Supervisor, Associate Media Director, Director, and SVP media team lead to devise complementary media strategies inclusive of national/broader media buys
  • Support the team with client requests, plan changes, and marketplace POVs
  • Ensure plans are on strategy and budget
  • Partner with Marketing Science to analyze campaigns and recommend optimizations to maximize campaign performance
  • Maintain an innovation mindset to ensure that plans capitalize on emerging media trends
  • Perform in-depth audience analysis including analyzing site information and demographics particular to client needs
  • Build and maintain relationships with media partners and internal agency counterparts
  • Demonstrate problem solving and intervention when necessary
  • Knowledge-sharing with all team members for best practices

You have:

  • Bachelors degree in Advertising, Marketing, Business Administration, or Communications; or equivalent professional work experience
  • 2+ years of hands on keys programmatic media experience (TTD, DV360 or similar)
  • 2+ years of related work experience; inclusive of social media platforms such as TikTok, Meta, and Google Ad products
  • Strong mathematic and analytical skills
  • Effective time management and organizational skills, as well as strong attention to detail
  • Solid understanding of the principles of marketing and advertising, as well as an understanding of media concepts and terms, creative and budget requirements
  • Technical proficiency with media planning and buying tools and research tools, as well as Microsoft Suite

Nice to haves: 

  • Exposure or experience with video media, such as broadcast planning

What We Offer

  • Global maternity and parental leave
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, wellness days, and flex days
  • Six free therapy sessions through Therify 
  • Access to online services for families and new parents 
  • Hybrid work options
  • Summer Fridays (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
  • Diversity and Inclusion Board with 13 affinity groups
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts
We continually review ranges to address skills, experience and markets. Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a number of factors that include, but aren’t limited to, a candidate’s experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position. For current CM employees, tenure will also be a consideration.
Salary Range
$65,000$75,000 USD

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. 

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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If Canada based: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/finance/consumer-affairs.html
If U.K. based: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion_consumidor/consejos_practicos.aspx 

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Chicago, IL
989 Employees
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

Critical Mass is a digital experience design agency with a relentless focus on the customer. Founded in Calgary in 1996, we have steadily expanded into a group of over 950 people working in 11 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and South America.

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