Published: Nov 21, 2024 – The Advertising Director collaborates with cross-functional marketing teams to ensure strategic alignment of briefs, and balances immediate sales goals with long-term brand identity. This position oversees the development and implementation of high-quality creative assets across various channels, working closely with production teams to maintain brand standards. The director also directs post-production processes and ensures all outputs align with brand values, design guidelines, and consumer engagement strategies.

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1. Advertising Director, Bright Horizon Media, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Define, own, and develop the company's Advertising strategy.
- Take full PnL responsibility and ensure a sustainable growth budget that is aligned with the different business units and departments.
- Lead and continuously develop his/her team (Ad Operations, Ad data, Ad product, Ad programmatic)
- Be responsible for the overall development of the Advertising product portfolio and its integration in line with the user and customer needs
- Continuously adapt the Advertising landscape and technology to reflect the latest trends and market developments
- Ensure a state-of-the-art Advertising technology stack reflecting the needs of the customers.
- Optimize the revenue streams out of the programmatic Advertising channels ensuring optimal fill rate, CPMs, and campaign management.
- Ensure advertising products perform as per market standards and align with the product directors
- Understand the competitive landscape, and the Spanish Advertising market environment and know relevant industry standards
Skills on Resume:
- Advertising Strategy (Hard Skills)
- PnL Management (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Product Development (Hard Skills)
- Market Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Tech Stack Management (Hard Skills)
- Ad Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Competitive Analysis (Hard Skills)
2. Advertising Account Director, Spectrum Creative Group, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Foster one-on-one relationships with senior clients to deepen the partnership with the agency by preemptively identifying new organic growth opportunities within the account
- Develop ongoing strategic and creative collaboration, working with the internal and external teams to ensure innovative and integrated work is delivered for the client
- Assist the client in establishing long and short-term marketing objectives and goals
- Nurture an outstanding team environment by establishing a positive relationship with direct reports' day-to-day workflow and career development
- Exhibit excellent thought leadership and industry expertise for the client's business and demonstrate a dedicated partnership with them by providing balanced counsel and direction
- Work closely and collaboratively with the CCO and Lead Planner in maximizing the Creative Brief to build the development of strong creative work
- Maintain great relationships with internal and external partners - including freelancers, media agencies, promotional partners, suppliers, etc.
- Possess strong management of account financials, including monthly and annual client forecasting, performance to target, margins, and team utilization
- Help build and support an engaging, collaborative, entrepreneurial culture within the agency
Skills on Resume:
- Client Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Marketing Goal Development (Hard Skills)
- Team Management (Soft Skills)
- Thought Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Creative Brief Maximization (Hard Skills)
- Partner Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Financial Management (Hard Skills)
3. Advertising Director, Visionary Adworks, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with media agencies, including negotiating annual SOWs, reconciling agency manpower hours vs budget, and providing performance assessments to deliver results cost-effectively.
- Manage across the portfolio of Company brands to remain flexible to dynamic business and marketplace changes, yet take advantage of scale and volume
- Partner with agencies to provide media principles and strategies for the portfolio, as well as align with individual brand strategies to drive maximum results.
- Work closely with brand teams on media planning, creative development processes, and execution and act as a liaison with agencies to ensure efficient use of agency manpower
- Facilitate the development of integrated plans across other consumer touchpoints to maintain consistency of brand messaging.
- Partner with research and analytics team members to develop standardized KPIs for media performance and analyze data to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of media.
- Continually seek out and implement cost savings opportunities to provide the optimal mix of working vs. non-working media investment.
- Manage and coach digital marketing manager working across social media, digital media, websites, SEO, SEM, etc.
- Collaborate across groups including brand teams, packaging, research, shopper marketing, sales, e-commerce, etc. to ensure tight linkage of communications across the consumer journey.
Skills on Resume:
- Media Agency Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Portfolio Management (Hard Skills)
- Media Strategy Alignment (Hard Skills)
- Creative Development Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Integrated Plan Development (Hard Skills)
- Media Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cost Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Team Coaching (Soft Skills)
4. Brand and Advertising Director, Creative Pulse Agency, Chicago, IL
Job Summary:
- Lead brand development and management for the enterprise brand portfolio.
- Deliver broad strategic initiatives that become foundational to brand positioning, brand expression, and activation through both internal and external communication channels.
- Responsible for both broad strategic undertakings and as well as strategic brand activation product and business positioning and verbal and visual expression.
- Partners with marketing organization strategists and with business unit stakeholders.
- Create and deliver an annual advertising plan with key performance metrics.
- Lead brief development and with the media agency, deliver informed channel plans.
- Integrate targeted advertising and lower funnel paid activities.
- Develop and lead creative briefings for campaigns.
- Identify and work with strategic, innovative external partners and brand agencies to strengthen the creative message, relevance to the target audience, and overall brand differentiation.
- Collaborate with insights and client experience teams to understand key consumer needs, barriers, and insights, to develop an effective brand expression and communication strategy.
- Develop brand development and communication strategy by synthesizing information from multiple sources and driving the application of key insights into business actions.
- Build relationships with internal stakeholders to innovate solutions and new opportunities for delivering increased awareness and brand preference for Silicon Valley Bank.
- Align and integrate efforts with corporate communications (earned media) and internal communications to advance the reputation of the enterprise brand.
- Produce media performance analysis, and derive implications and recommendations that lead to more effective paid channel allocation.
Skills on Resume:
- Brand Development (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
- Brand Positioning (Hard Skills)
- Advertising Planning (Hard Skills)
- Creative Briefing (Hard Skills)
- External Partner Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Consumer Insights Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Media Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)
5. Advertising Director, Momentum Strategies, Seattle, WA
Job Summary:
- Work closely with the Commercial marketing teams (commercial, comms, digital, sales)
- Ensure that briefs are strategically right for reputation and appropriate for business, balancing short-term sales objectives with the longer-term identity of the brand
- Understanding and championing content that delivers real benefits for the consumer.
- Work with in-house film team and third-party film/video production agencies to ensure assets are implemented correctly in every channel and platform and produced to the brand's high creative standards.
- Interrogate the creative briefs for the products and technologies you’re writing about collaborate closely with colleagues in other teams and work across a range of media to create seamless integrated campaigns.
- Collaborate with Commercial, Legal, and Performance team colleagues to create solutions that are responsive and robust
- Define and direct sound design elements to bring a further dimension to advertising whilst understanding the confines and consumer behaviors of certain social channels.
- Design for sound off, delight with sound on.
- Oversee post-production elements such as editing, color grade, retouching and clean-up, and CGI work.
- Ensuring all work is in line with brand values and follows the relevant brand and design guidelines.
Skills on Resume:
- Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Brief Development (Hard Skills)
- Consumer-Centric Content Creation (Hard Skills)
- Film/Video Production Management (Hard Skills)
- Creative Brief Interpretation (Hard Skills)
- Legal and Commercial Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Sound Design Direction (Hard Skills)
- Post-Production Oversight (Hard Skills)
6. Senior Advertising Director, Nova Communications, Nashville, TN
Job Summary:
- Lead a team to successfully develop and execute all US National and Local media strategies and tactical plans
- Establish the objectives, key results, processes, timing, necessary assets, and workflow needed to ensure a high-functioning team
- Ensure teams develop media strategies and plans that are grounded in business priorities and consumer insights
- Foster a high-performing, results-based culture within the media team
- Responsible for overarching, integrated media strategy across all advertising campaigns
- Ensure all media plans are optimized to deliver awareness, impact, and engagement towards the Red Bull consumption group and to achieve overarching marketing objectives
- Ensure the development of insightful, comprehensive campaign analyses and that learnings are applied to current and future campaigns as real-time as possible
- Work cross-functionally to ensure integration of Paid, Owned, and Earned media in close collaboration with Red Bull Media House North America
- Manage the media agency (including Media Strategy/Planning/Buying, TV/Video, Programmatic, Social, Search, and OOH) to deliver insightful/effective/efficient plans that deliver on objectives
- Perform annual media agency evaluation and develop/implement performance plans
- Run media agency selection process and negotiate/maintain all agency contracts including fees and scopes of work
- Ensure ongoing campaign monitoring and optimization, ensuring key insights are delivered and leveraged to strengthen plans
- Lead and implement smooth Planning and Buying operations between the majority of campaigns executed by the Media Agency and the small part of the Media budget which is bought in-house.
- Analyze and optimize set-up to scale what works
Skills on Resume:
- Media Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Consumer Insight Integration (Hard Skills)
- Campaign Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Media Agency Management (Soft Skills)
- Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Negotiation and Contract Management (Hard Skills)
7. Senior Advertising Director, Spark Innovators, Phoenix, AZ
Job Summary:
- Drive consistent media best practices to deliver more targeted, relevant, and “data-driven” advertising campaigns
- Understand and leverage all available data to improve media targeting efficiency and effectiveness
- Constantly identify, analyze, and leverage the latest media trends and emerging technologies, seeking out new opportunities and applying them to media strategies
- Ensure Google Marketing Platform ad tech stack is being fully leveraged and that teams are constantly pushing for performance improvement, State-of-the-art programmatic advertising performance, and innovation adoption
- Understand and apply the DV360 and Google Campaign Manager tools or have comparable experience with other DSPs/Ad Servers
- Build in-team expertise across all new media channels including programmatic, social, search, and connected/addressable TV
- Ensure compliance with CCPA and any other relevant Data privacy laws relevant to US Advertising
- Ensure the team is constantly at the forefront of the evolving media landscape and deliver relevant training
- Support the VP, of Advertising in developing and implementing the annual business plan
- Responsible for annual media planning reviews, buying reviews, and buying recommendations with media agency
- Responsible for Media Cost KPI setting, benchmarking, and controlling across all Media to increase the value of Media Buys on an ongoing basis.
- Guide, challenge and control the performance of the Media Agency in the National Upfront Buying as well as ongoing Media Buying to optimize CPM and C/GRP
- Responsible for bi-annual MMM inputs and for ensuring MMM learnings are leveraged to optimize the Media plan
- Manage and maintain the annual media budget, ensuring consistency across Finance and internal media management platform
Skills on Resume:
- Data-Driven Campaign Development (Hard Skills)
- Media Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Programmatic Advertising Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Google Marketing Platform Expertise (Hard Skills)
- DSP/Ad Server Management (Hard Skills)
- Data Privacy Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Media Planning and Buying (Hard Skills)
- Budget Management (Hard Skills)