Media Supervisor

Seattle, WA, US (Hybrid)
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Description

MEDIA SUPERVISOR - OPEN TO SEATTLE, WA OR SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA

 

Who We Are

Mekanism is an award-winning, independent, full-service advertising agency made up of creative entrepreneurs. With offices in San Francisco, New York and Seattle, we are collaborative business partners with some of the world’s best brands including Alaska Airlines, Harmless Harvest, and Charles Schwab. Our creative approach to brand building is best described as “The Soul & Science of Storytelling” - communicating a brand’s purpose with ideas informed by data and rooted in human truths.

What is a Mekanista you ask? Being a Mekanista requires a rare combination of being a weird, fearless and wonderful person who enjoys birthday cakes, well behaved dogs, and shared sensibility of family, respect and not taking ourselves too seriously.

Mekanism has been named to Ad Age’s “Agency A List” and twice to their “Best Places to Work”. We have also been listed on Creativity’s “The Creative 50” and have been recognized by Effie as one of the “Most Effective Independent Agencies”. We have been profiled by The New York Times, Fast Company and ABC’s Nightline.

 

Key Areas of Responsibility:

 

Media Strategy Leadership

  • Lead with minimal oversight Media Strategy & Planning.  
  • Including: Budget planning, Strategic media channel strategy & planning, 
  • Tactical Media Planning process in a strategic, mature, and self-guided manner, on a high volume of accounts. 
  • Develops and delivers Audience profiles/insights, media plans (across media capabilities). 

 

Client Management:

  • Overall campaign and client management, identifying performance drivers, confidently recommending an appropriate course of action for optimizations, evaluating progress and escalating as necessary. 
  • Acting as a go to for industry expertise, POV’s and general best practices catered to their business objectives and outcomes.

 

Mentorship and Team Leader

  • Mastery of all Campaign Management Activities that also focuses on training and  elevating junior team expertise. 
  • In tandem with your Director, work with junior team on upskilling, performance management and growth trajectories.

 

Partnership Innovation

  • With your strong digital / mobile / social / emerging media chops and passion, help us crack innovation for our clients when working with publishers and other media companies.

 

Data & Tech

  •  Use data and technology creatively to tackle and solve client challenges. 
  • Think laterally about personalized experiences and how to make them effective.

New Business

  •  Desire to participate in new business pitches in a supporting or lead role 

 

 Embody the Mekanism Values:

  • Believe in bold
  • Bring your weird
  • Practice optimism
  • Have each other’s backs
  • Pursue what’s next
  • Give a sh*t

 

Qualifications:

  • At least 5 years of experience with a media agency, experience with a fully integrated agency is a plus
  • Ability to evaluate and understand a client brief and translate into an actionable Media Plan from Audience frameworks through to Measurement Plans
  • Strong foundation in cross-channel planning experience, with expertise in Digital and Social (Traditional channels are a plus but not required)
  • Experience managing and developing junior team members
  • Comfortable interfacing with senior clients on a regular basis - This means you should like to, and be proficient at, presenting and work-shopping with clients on complex problems. 
  • Be a clear lane of communication between leadership and junior team members being able to manage both up and down
  • Confidently lead media strategy, tactical planning, execution, and reporting with minimal oversight
  • Experience with Simmons/MRI, Media Mix Modeling Tools, DCM, and Competitive Media Tools are essential
  • Experience executing paid social and digital tools is essential (Ad Trafficking, Meta, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, AdWords, DCM, etc.)

 

Salary: $95,000

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