Director, Integrated Media - New York - Digital Matter

Description

Who We Are:

Digital Matter is a next-generation growth and transformation partner built for the realities of today's market. We combine the pace and precision of a startup with the discipline and rigor of a global advisory firm.

We help consumer brands manage media as a strategic asset class, with the same intentionality and governance applied to capital allocation. By connecting data, technology, and creative, we turn media investment into measurable enterprise value: accelerating growth, improving efficiency, and building durable capabilities.

Over the past seven years, we've guided organizations through IPOs, digital turnarounds, and successful exits. Our point of view is simple: when media is managed as capital, it becomes a catalyst for transformation at scale.

As the Director, Integrated Media, you will be the strategic owner and day-to-day lead for a portfolio of clients, setting direction, orchestrating channel delivery, and ensuring our work is consistently insight-led, performance-driven, and future-ready.

Reporting to the SVP, Integrated Media, you will lead integrated strategy across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, and emerging channels, while partnering closely with our Product, Data Science/Analytics, and Engineering teams to embed automation, advanced measurement, and AI-enabled insights into how we plan, activate, and optimize media.

This is a role for a modern media operator who can move seamlessly between: (1) C-suite narrative and value creation, and (2) hands‑on orchestration of integrated media execution.

What You'll Do

• Set the investment strategy (media as a capital allocation problem)
• Own integrated media strategy across a portfolio of clients, ensuring investment decisions are tied to clear business outcomes (growth, efficiency, customer value, and brand impact).
• Build a deep understanding of each client's objectives, customers, unit economics, constraints, and competitive context, then translate that context into actionable media strategies.
• Lead development of dynamic, full-funnel media plans, including budget allocation and scenario planning performance forecasting and pacing strategy test-and-learn roadmaps and learning agendas channel roles, audience strategy, and creative implications.
• Orchestrate cross‑channel delivery with operational rigor
• Partner with channel leads (Search, Social, Programmatic, and emerging) to translate strategy into high‑quality activation and outcomes.
• Guide teams through the full media delivery lifecycle: planning, projections, launch readiness, in‑market management, optimization, and executive‑ready insight generation.
• Establish "clean" operating rhythms—clear briefs, governance, QA, and performance cadences—to improve speed, consistency, and scalability.
• Build a measurement spine that drives decision‑making
• Apply modern measurement approaches (MMM, MTA, LTA, lift studies, incrementality testing) to quantify impact, reduce uncertainty, and prioritize the highest‑return opportunities.
• Turn performance data into decisive narratives: what happened, why it happened, what we learned, and what we will do next.
• Identify whitespace and unlock growth opportunities across audience, channel mix, creative, and spend allocation.
• Advance the platform (automation + analytics + AI)
• Partner with Product, Data Science/Analytics, and Engineering to deploy dashboards, automation, and AI‑enabled workflows that improve clarity, speed, and decision quality.
• Help shape "next practices" in integrated planning, optimization, and performance storytelling by translating emerging capabilities into practical client impact.
• Lead teams and grow the business
• Mentor and develop talent across levels; coach managers and specialists to raise the bar on craft, judgment, and execution.
• Support new business efforts (RFP inputs, case studies, and pitches) and help articulate Digital Matter's POV on media as an asset class externally.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years in integrated digital media, ideally across retail, fashion, luxury, or adjacent consumer categories—with increasing ownership of strategy, delivery, and outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to build and run integrated brand + performance strategies across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic/CTV, and emerging platforms.
• Strong platform fluency across Meta, TikTok, Google, The Trade Desk, CTV, and related ecosystems—able to guide teams and challenge assumptions with confidence.
• A structured, analytical problem‑solving mindset: you can decompose ambiguity, build a plan, and connect media decisions to business impact.
• Strong command of measurement and analytics, including attribution concepts, incrementality, lift, and experimentation design—with the ability to convert analysis into action.
• Excellence in performance storytelling: executive‑ready synthesis that is crisp, grounded, and decision‑oriented (not just reporting).
• Tools fluency: advanced Excel, plus data visualization/storytelling tools (e.g., Tableau, thinkcell).
• A confident client leader: trusted counsel to senior stakeholders, comfortable leading hard conversations and driving alignment.
• Operator mentality and end‑to‑end ownership: you can set strategy and also ensure the details land in market correctly.
• Proven people leadership in fast‑paced environments, with a track record of developing talent and scaling standards.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; emphasis in marketing, business, economics, analytics, or related fields is a plus.

$165,000 - $210,000 a year

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Full coverage health insurance including Medical, Dental, and Vision
• 401K with company contribution
• 17+ vacation days in addition to company holidays, sick days, and summer Fridays
• Pre‑taxed commuter benefits
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• And more…

What We Value

One Team.

We're all in. When we win, we win together. When we miss, we learn together. Collaboration isn't optional; it's how we operate Everyone plays a part, everyone has a stake, and every result belongs to all of us.

Maximum Transparency.

We are transparent, both internally and externally. The value we deliver comes from leveraging those truths to drive actionable solutions that move the business forward.

Ownership Culture.

We believe in moving with purpose. We don't wait for perfect conditions – we identify opportunities, make informed decisions, and execute with speed and measured by what we accomplish, not just what we plan.

Digital Matter is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fair and equitable hiring practices. All hiring decisions at Digital Matter are based on strategic business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. All candidates are considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other protected status.