Associate Media Planner

As an Associate Media Planner, you are eager to dive into the world of media planning, buying, trafficking, and reporting, and to hit the ground running with support from your team. With guidance from Media Planners on your team and your Media Supervisor, you’re ready to break into the media landscape and learn as much as you can about current media trends, channels, audiences, and partners. You bring a passion for Media to the office, and your enthusiastic personality makes you keen to offer insights into campaign analysis and optimization. Working across all areas of the Media process, you want to get your hands dirty—and you are ready to learn from the knowledgeable folks here at Critical Mass.

You will:

• Coordinate the management, trafficking, optimization and reporting of all campaign initiatives.
• Work with finance to execute payment of invoices and pre-bill process.
• Be responsible for all media campaign set-up and execution, including working with other internal teams and clients to secure deliverables.
• Support in reporting templates, management and presentations to clients, and responsible for pulling and delivering accurate data in initial analyses.
• Provide insight into campaign analysis and optimization.
• Research and prepare new information for paid media plans, RFPs, and presentations.
• Evaluate, build, and maintain relationships in the display and emerging media community.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest trends in media
• Aid in the development of “Point of View” (POV) documents on new trends or special opportunities.
• Participate in new business efforts as needed by management.

You have:

• Drive, tenacity, organizational ability, and curiosity
• Exposure to and knowledge of the media landscape
• Some familiarity or exposure to media planning and buying tools
• Some familiarity with Google ad products and Meta products
• Familiarity with programmatic media is a plus.
• General understanding of digital media and the digital landscape
• Passion for media and advertising
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines while paying attention to details
• Ability to work effectively under stressful situations and time constraints
• Ability to work effectively across functional groups or geographic offices.
• Good project management, planning and organizational skills, and ability to ask relevant questions and manage expectations
• Ability to work independently, yet seek help when needed
• Proficient in MS Office, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Independent and able to work with minimal supervision while maintaining focus and productivity
• Flexible and able to quickly adapt to new situations

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
• Extensive winter holiday office closures
• Summer Fridays (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Funding towards internal learning and development 
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! 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. The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learningImprove collaboration and team relationships.Increase employee engagement

This hybrid model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@criticalmass.com.

We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our pool of candidates, with a target of achieving at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities.

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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