Director of Media Strategy at Jellyfish leading day-to-day strategic planning for major global clients. Drive campaign insights and collaborate with cross-functional teams for effective media execution.
Responsibilities
Lead the response to client campaign briefs, audience strategies, and channel frameworks for ongoing campaigns and seasonal initiatives.
Partner closely with the client’s media team as their day-to-day strategic lead—translating objectives and insights into cohesive plans.
Use historical performance data, learning agendas, creative results, MMM learnings, and platform insights to refine strategies and craft recommendations.
Collaborate with Investment teams to ensure media plans and activation choices ladder up to strategic intent.
Monitor campaign performance and partner with Investment teams for ongoing optimization recommendations and mid-flight revisions.
Participate in insights and preparation for weekly reporting for client status meetings.
Identify patterns in performance data and develop actionable insights that shape future planning cycles.
Support the development of post-campaign reviews and quarterly performance readouts, bringing forward learnings and opportunities.
Stay informed on category trends, competitive activity, audience shifts, and platform updates—translating them into strategic POVs for the client.
Support the VP, Strategy in preparing strategic inputs for IAT planning—ensuring the media strategy connects to the broader creative and communications idea.
Lead the media channel planning for all IAT initiatives.
Help integrate media strategy into cross-functional planning moments for launches, hero products, category initiatives, and tentpole events.
Coordinate with creative, PR, influencer, analytics, and commerce partners as needed to ensure alignment on strategic direction.
Requirements
5-8+ years in media strategy, communications planning, or integrated strategy (agency experience preferred).
Strong planning expertise with deep familiarity in audience strategy, channel roles, budget allocation, and full-funnel planning.
Ability to synthesize data (performance metrics, MMM insights, research) into structured strategic recommendations.
Strong communication and writing skills, especially in crafting briefs and structured planning documents.
Experience handling day-to-day media client relationships and managing planning cycles independently.
Ability to work cross-functionally but also thrive in ownership of media-specific planning responsibilities.
Comfort with planning tools, research platforms, and GenAI technologies to enhance insight generation and workflow efficiency.
A proactive, detail-oriented mindset and ability to manage multiple planning cycles simultaneously.
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