Situation Group, a leading digital marketing agency for entertainment, media, and mission-based brands, is seeking a full-time Senior Digital Media Buyer, with 3+ years of experience. Situation Group has been honored with numerous workplace awards from Crain’s, Best Companies Group, Cynopsis, Digiday, and Fortune for our commitment to our workplace and our team members. In keeping with these values, a core element of this position is a commitment to supporting both individual and team growth.

The Role

As the Senior Digital Media Buyer, you’ll work hand-in-hand with our Media Planners and Project Managers to fully launch, optimize, and complete online media campaigns. As a programmatic buying lead, you will be working daily within Google Display / Video 360 (along with some vendor-specific DSPs), Google Ads (YouTube, Google Discovery, & Gmail) as well as the third-party ad server Campaign Manager 360 to traffic campaigns. Depending upon the client vertical your average day may also include working in the social platforms.

The Senior Digital Media Buyer will communicate deadlines to our internal team, deliver campaign tags to vendors in advance of launch, confirm campaigns are up and running on the correct start date and are serving correctly. You’ll optimize campaigns by recommending revised bidding strategies and targeting tweaks, ensuring that our campaigns are performing as best as they possibly can while also delivering in full. You’ll review, analyze and report your performance findings using our data visualization & reporting platform (DOMO). You’ll kick off the billing process in our project management software (Advantage) to ensure campaign invoices are accurate and are sent out and received in a timely manner. In other words, you’ll be a hands-on media buying wizard, bringing our clients outstanding media results through your impeccable attention to detail.

THIS JOB IS FOR YOU IF YOU:

• Enjoy collaboration across multiple internal teams to deliver digital media campaigns
• Have strong organizational and mathematical skills
• Excel at troubleshooting technical issues and can drive problem-solving with vendors and team members
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires thinking on your feet
• Are a superb communicator with both team members and partners
• Are extremely detail-oriented
• 3 years or more of Digital Media Buying experience in Paid Social and/or Programmatic

Requirements

• 3+ years of Digital Media Buying experience in Paid Social and/or Programmatic
• At least one year of agency work experience
• Media Trafficking experience required
• Knowledge and utilization of 1st and/or 3rd party data
• Knowledge and prior use of Facebook Ads Manager, Facebook Business Manager, YouTube, Google Search, Google Display Network, Google Analytics Functional or Technical skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Docs/Sheets
• Experience in leading campaign development, management and optimization of digital advertising campaigns across multiple platforms, including but not limited to Google Ads, Display and Video 360, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
• Experience ensuring budget and pacing are monitored and managed throughout the campaign, providing accurate on-going reporting
• Must be prepared for a fast-paced environment and be comfortable making decisions

Benefits

We offer a competitive base salary and a range of benefits and perks:

• Annual Salary: $80k - $100k, commensurate with experience
• Health care plan (medical, dental and vision)
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Life and disability insurance
• Generous paid time off package that includes vacation, sick, “life happens” days, birthdays, summer Fridays and public holidays
• Paid family leave
• Cold brew coffee, snacks and fresh fruit
• Wellness resources
• Special access to New York City’s arts and entertainment scene

Our Company

The Studio at Situation Group crafts award-winning work for leading entertainment, education and mission-driven brands—WICKED on Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, Columbia University, Harvard Online, and No Kid Hungry.

The Studio is part of Situation Group, a digital-first collective of award-winning advertising agencies.