The Role
The SVP, Paid Media will strategize and lead paid media initiatives, mentor teams, and foster collaboration across departments to drive client success.
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About Zeno Group
Zeno Group is a fiercely independent, global integrated communications agency, born from PR and built to challenge conventions. Our people bring bold ideas and fearless creativity to solve real business challenges. We are an award-winning agency that believes in the power of strategic communications to shape perceptions, shift behaviors and drive impact. Our digital media capability is fast-growing, and we’re looking for a leader who is energized by building, inspiring, and evolving a future-forward paid media practice.
Zeno New York is looking for a dynamic, strategic, and visionary SVP, Paid Media to drive existing client business and shape the future of our fast-growing paid media offering. You will lead the development and execution of cutting-edge paid media strategies — with a focus on paid social, programmatic display, SEM, and media partnerships — while also playing a key leadership role within Zeno East and the broader U.S. digital team.
This role is ideal for an entrepreneurial thinker with a passion for motivating high-performing teams, leading through change, and advising clients on where the future of media is headed. You’ll be a key contributor to Zeno’s paid media evolution — helping define what’s next for our offering, our clients, and our internal capabilities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the development of integrated media strategies to support full-funnel client objectives across brand storytelling, lead generation, and performance marketing.
- Serve as a visionary thought leader, contributing unique POVs on the evolving digital and social media landscape, platform innovation, and the convergence of earned, owned, and paid.
- Identify and advise on emerging AI implications, automation tools, and future-forward opportunities to enhance paid media programs.
- Shape and implement testing frameworks to uncover white space opportunities, guide investment decisions, and build media plans grounded in insights and innovation.
- Serve as a senior media advisor in new business pitches and client growth opportunities.
- Lead and inspire the New York-based paid media team, developing talent equipped for the next evolution of paid.
- Mentor, coach, and grow junior and mid-level talent with a hands-on leadership approach.
- Cultivate a high-performing, collaborative team culture that prizes curiosity, creativity, accountability, and fun.
- Oversee team resourcing, staffing, workflow, and hiring, ensuring balance and long-term capability growth.
- Actively partner with cross-functional teams in analytics, strategy, influencer, creative, and earned media to deliver cohesive, data-informed campaigns.
- Participate in the Global Paid Media Center of Excellence (COE) and collaborate with other regional leaders to evolve Zeno’s media practice at a network level.
- Champion integration of media intelligence into client narratives, ensuring media insights are central to overall communications strategy.
- Own the scoping, pricing, and delivery oversight of all paid media scopes within the New York office.
- Oversee campaign pacing, optimization, performance tracking, and data interpretation, ensuring programs deliver business impact.
- Manage forecasting, budgeting, and operational planning for the paid media discipline.
- Thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments and know how to build buy-in across disciplines
- Are energized by helping people grow and understand the importance of shaping team culture
- Have a POV on the future of media and want to help define what comes next
Strategic Media Leadership
Team & Culture Building
Collaboration & Integration
Operational & Financial Excellence
Who You Are
You are a big-picture thinker and pragmatic doer, just as comfortable in a strategic whiteboard session as in a tactical platform discussion. You love solving problems, spotting opportunity, and inspiring your team to go further than they thought possible.
You also:
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 12+ years of experience in paid media, with deep focus in paid social, programmatic, and SEM
- 5+ years of experience leading and growing high-performing teams
- Proven experience in platform tools including Meta, Google Ads, TikTok, and LinkedIn (Pinterest, Snapchat and all others are a plus)
- History working in Prisma strongly preferred
- Knowledge of research tools like Resonate
- Collaborative mindset with proven success in integrated agency environments; experience working closely with other subject matter experts, especially social strategy & analytics teams (Comms/PR team interaction a plus)
- Strong understand of performance metrics, media optimizations and ability to spot trends while translating to non-media fluent audiences
- History of success in high-stakes client counsel and tough Q&A conversations
- Strong attention to detail and project management capabilities; ability to thrive and perform in a fast-paced climate
- Experience in SEO and using SEO tools
- Experience with healthcare, consumer, or eCommerce clients is a plus
- Prior POVs or published thought leadership on the future of digital/paid media
- Experience shaping media offerings with AI tools or automation frameworks
BONUS IF YOU HAVE
ABOUT US
Zeno Group is the fiercely independent and global, integrated communications agency, born from PR. We bring together the boldest and brightest talent to help clients across industries and sectors unleash the power of strategic communications. Guided by our "Fearless Pursuit of the Unexpected," we push the boundaries to achieve real business value and societal impact for clients. Winner of the industry’s most coveted awards including the 2024 PRWeek U.S. Outstanding Large Agency of the Year, 2023 PRWeek Purpose Agency of the Year, 2022 PRWeek Global Agency of the Year, 2022 PRovoke Best Large Agency to Work For in North America and a three-time winner of PRWeek’s Best Places to Work. Zeno has also been previously recognized by the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Zeno is a DJE Holdings Company.
ABOUT OUR BENEFITS
Healthy, happy employees make Zeno better, so we have programs that support physical, mental and financial wellness. Our culture and benefits are designed to promote flexibility, celebrate diversity and support work/life balance. We offer a variety of medical, dental and vision insurance with prescription plans, as well as short and long-term disability. Our Be Kind to Your Mind program focuses on mental health, providing a paid subscription to Headspace and access to mental health providers and other services through a best-in-class employee assistance program. Employees are encouraged to bring their authentic self to Zeno and participate in our employee resource groups which build communities for sharing and support. And while we love our work, we believe in the restorative power of time off with generous vacation, paid holidays and self-care time. Employees are supported in their pursuit of financial wellness with a 401(k) plan, pretax flexible spending accounts, tuition assistance, life insurance and free access to a certified financial coach. And our unique ZenoFit program provides a monthly allowance to fund activities in your personal life that bring you joy and keep you healthy. These and other benefits are available to non-temporary employees in the US.
Zeno Group is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.
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The Company
What We Do
Zeno Group is the fiercely independent and global integrated communications agency, born from PR.
We bring together the boldest and brightest talent to help clients across industries and sectors unleash the power of strategic communications. Guided by our ‘Fearless Pursuit of the Unexpected,’ we push the boundaries to achieve real business value and societal impact for clients. Winner of the industry’s most coveted awards including the 2022 PRWeek Global Agency of the Year, 2022 PRWeek U.S. Large Agency of the Year, 2022 PRovoke Best Large Agency to Work For in North America, 2021 PRovoke Global Creative Agency of the Year, 2021 PRovoke North American Agency of the Year, 2021 PRWeek Agency of the Year and a three-time winner of PRWeek’s Best Places to Work. Zeno has also been previously recognized by the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Zeno is a DJE Holdings Company.
