About the role

  • Director of Paid Media at Dentsu managing B2B paid media strategy and execution. Collaborating across teams to drive engagement, lead generation, and measurable pipeline impact.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the paid media strategy across Google Ads (Search, Display, Video) and Paid Social (LinkedIn Ads)
  • Establish audience strategies, channel mix, investment approach, and KPI frameworks to support awareness, demand generation, and conversion
  • Develop and evolve testing roadmaps that account for platform changes, algorithm shifts, and performance insights
  • Actively participate in campaign planning, setup, build, and optimization alongside direct reports
  • Monitor performance daily and implement real-time optimizations related to bidding, targeting, creative, and budget allocation
  • Partner with creative and content teams to help write, review, and test ad copy and creative direction
  • Own the paid media budget, including forecasting, pacing, and channel-level allocation
  • Evaluate performance against KPIs and business goals, translating data into actionable recommendations
  • Own reporting and analysis across all paid media efforts, from weekly performance updates to monthly and quarterly deep-dive readouts
  • Lead collaboration with digital, content, creative, and marketing operations teams

Requirements

  • 8+ years of hands-on paid media experience, with a strong focus on B2B demand generation
  • Deep expertise managing campaigns in Google Ads (Search, Video, Display) and LinkedIn Ads
  • Proven experience operating in a player–coach role, balancing strategy, execution, and people management
  • Strong analytical and reporting skills, with ability to optimize in real-time and clearly communicate insights
  • Experience managing paid media budgets and forecasting against performance goals
  • Experience managing small teams (1-3 people) strongly preferred
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including presenting results to senior stakeholders
  • Highly organized, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • 401k
  • Flexible paid time off
  • At least 15 paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick and safe leave
  • Paid parental leave

Job title

Director, Paid Media

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$94,000 - $137,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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