The Hired Guns are seeking a strategic and creative leader to be AVP of Paid Media, Politics at an award-winning global digital agency working with high-profile political, nonprofit, corporate, and celebrity clients, all with the mission of changing people’s minds and moving them to positive action.
Salary range: $110,000 to $140,000 per year
The Nitty Gritty
The backstory on the company and why they need to hire you!
Last year this company was named Digital Agency of the Year, and it’s poised for even greater things in 2022. To keep pace with this impressive growth, they’re looking for a resourceful individual with an entrepreneurial mindset to drive all Paid Media efforts serving their political client practice.
As AVP of Paid Media, Politics, you will act as a strategic advisor and also manage four colleagues under you. You will own all paid strategy for assigned clients, developing client-facing strategy documents while proactively identifying project vision and driving it to completion. You’ll oversee all paid media plans and support team members throughout the media-planning process. It will be your responsibility to ensure strategic imperatives are consistently met throughout engagements. You will also participate in new business pitches and present strategy to clients.
It’s an understatement to say that this is an amazing opportunity: not only will you be working with remarkable clients and colleagues, but your work will make a direct impact on society — think voter turnout, diversity and inclusion missions, and political advocacy. As AVP of Paid Media, Politics, your work will speak volumes when it comes to how this agency and its clients are seen and heard. This position brings opportunities to help build paid-media campaigns that help clients succeed, all while increasing awareness at every step.
Why You?
How you’ll know if you’re a fit…
You’re a doer, a builder, a creative, a great people manager, and you’re hungry to jump in and do it all – aka you’re not just hung up on being a manager. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of agency experience working in paid-media programming, strategy and management. Big plus if you have worked with political clients or on political campaigns in the past, as you will be working at the speed of politics! You can think on the fly and outside the box about paid-media strategy. You have zero fear of running multiple large client accounts, and you can proactively identify client issues in a timely manner. You’re great at delegating work, but you can also jump in and roll up your sleeves if need be – be it editing content for advertising placements, working with designers and video editors to execute visual products, or who knows what. Most importantly, you’re excited to come onboard a small but mighty agency and join a team of talented colleagues.
The Inside Skinny
Why you should quit your job right now and join this organization!
This is a literal dream job for the right person: you will be well compensated while doing extremely interesting and impactful work. This is a huge career opportunity to not only move your personal narrative forward, but to move the narrative forward for one of the most highly lauded digital agencies in the world, doing deeply meaningful work. Plus, you’ll have a huge say in the vision and paid-media strategy of this company going into 2023 and beyond. If you think you’re a fit, don’t sit on this one. Get in touch with us today.
The Hired Guns does not and will not discriminate in considering and referring candidates for employment, or in its treatment or advancement of its employees, and will not tolerate harassment, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender (including gender identity and expression), sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
