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DAC

Associate Director, Digital Media

DAC, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290


Leading digital performance marketing agency seeks an

Associate Director, Digital Media

Do you have the

enthusiasm

to rise to each challenge, the

execution

to drive outrageous performance, the

curiosity

to continually expand your knowledge, and the

courage

to propose original solutions to perplexing problems? Then you may have just found the perfect opportunity at a performance marketing agency like no other.

The Associate Director, Digital Media is responsible for the planning, creation, and execution of integrated digital advertising programs for key DAC Group clients. This individual will be accountable for the strategies and functional activities as they relate to the effective delivery of core client programs that include paid search, paid social, OLV, display, and other critical channels to DAC Group's core offering.

Sound like your kind of thing? Let's get to the details!

What you get

The opportunity to shape the future-yours and ours-at one of the world's most significant performance marketing agencies with offices across the US, Canada, and Europe.A diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) environment where you can bring your whole self to work.A host of perks and benefits, including flexible hours, hybrid working models, employee assistance, and days off to recharge.What we get

5+ years of hands-on experience managing paid search / paid social / display / video campaigns. Agency background in performance media preferred. Come to the interview prepared to talk about what you did to improve KPIs.Previous management experience preferredInvolvement in leading client relationship, contributing to strategy, and client presentations.Good communication skills. Understanding of how to distill message to its key points. Ability to adapt message to audience.Ability to master and use a 3rd party bid management platforms (DoubleClick, Kenshoo, etc.).Demonstrate ability to build campaign structures on Google and Microsoft Ads that follow client's business needs and search best practice.Demonstrate ability to pull reports and provide insights and observations on campaign performance at a high level.Accurately track and maintain budgets across campaigns and on multiple search engines.Provide traffic and cost estimates.Create campaigns that encompass multiple locations / geos and lines of business.Demonstrate ability to create campaigns that are mapped through to conversion focused landing pages that are highly relevant and built at scale.Provide in-depth optimization suggestions based on account performance.Perform ad copy testing.Perform testing against various ad extensions.In-depth knowledge of Google Ads and Microsoft Ads (Bing) features and how they can be effectively integrated into campaigns.Ability to download data into Excel, perform VLookups, create Pivot Tables and charts. Solid understanding of how to visualize data for ease of comprehension.Most importantly, a sense of ownership over your managed campaigns. Attention to detail and diligence in execution.Responsibilities

Become an expert in biddable paid media.Produce weekly/monthly reports, covering all paid media channels & performance data.Work collaboratively, coordinate and communicate with internal and external partners.Provide ongoing analysis and monitoring of paid search & display campaigns with an eye to proactively expanding and improving campaigns based on client business needs.Build, launch, optimize and maintain paid search & display campaigns via Google Ads, Bing, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest & other platforms.Conduct search ad copy & banner ad testing per best practice to drive performance improvements.Conduct keyword, placement & market research to make additions to new and existing campaigns.Perform necessary conversion tracking implementation with assistance from our Marketing Science team. Learn how to traffic campaigns through CM360. Understand ins and outs of Google Analytics.Perform QA on campaign set-up and post-campaign launch.

Work Model:

This role requires two in-office days per week, with three days in-office during the three-month orientation period. Remote work is not available for this position.

What's next?

We simply want to know what makes you special. Send us an application that showcases your talent-and your personality-and shows us how you would thrive in our unique agency environment