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Media Manager

Reports to: Director of Media

The Role

As a Media Manager at Designsensory, you’ll lead the charge on paid media—buying, planning, optimizing, and managing a portfolio of small to medium-sized accounts. You’re the person making sure campaigns launch on time, budgets make sense, and performance keeps improving.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll balance strategy with execution, working across both traditional and digital channels to deliver results that matter.

What You’ll Do

  • Manage Your Portfolio: Oversee 6-8 accounts (depending on size and complexity), and manage smaller accounts mostly on your own, flagging up when you need support—whether it’s performance concerns, account team coordination, or content gaps
  • Know Your Audiences: Stay current on what people actually care about and bring fresh ideas to the table
  • Plan and Execute: Help develop and roll out media strategies across the full spectrum—TV, radio, print, OOH, paid social, paid search, programmatic display, and video
  • Build and Launch: Get campaigns live on schedule and make sure they’re set up for success
  • Monitor Performance: Keep spending on pace, track progress against goals, and jump on optimization opportunities before they become problems
  • Stay In-Platform: Proactively tweak and improve media placements in-platform and through additional platforms
  • Own the Details: Update and maintain media budgets and flowcharts across your client roster
  • Report with Confidence: Prepare and present campaign performance and recommendations on your own or with integrated account teams
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with creative, strategy, and account teams to make sure everything comes together
  • Show Up for Development: Participate in biweekly 1:1s and annual performance reviews

Who You Are

  • Detail-Oriented: Highly organized with a sharp eye for detail
  • Creative Strategist: You can collaborate very effectively with the creative team to represent platform trends, audience insights, and ad creative to find the most effective ad performance
  • Experienced: Solid background in paid media, with hands-on experience building and managing campaigns in-platform
  • Power Presenter: Strong presentation skills—you can tell the story behind the data. Proficient in Figma (or similar)
  • Good Communicator: Great communicator, both written and verbal
  • Task Switcher: Strong at managing time and switching between tasks without losing focus
  • You Stay Sharp: Research what’s new in media—platforms, tech, trends—and share what you’re learning with the team

Qualifications

  • Tools: Proficiency in Google Workspace, Figma, project management tools (like Asana or Monday.com), reporting tools, and individual media platforms.
  • Experience: 1-3 years of experience in media planning and buying, ideally within a performance marketing or agency environment.
  • Portfolio: A proven track record of ad campaigns that drove measurable results.
  • Platform Knowledge: Deep familiarity with best practices for major ad platforms (character limits, “hook” structures, and policy restrictions).

Why Designsensory?

We are a research-driven, full-service agency that believes in the power of integrated thinking. We offer a collaborative environment where your voice (and your copy) actually matters. We value curiosity, transparency, and the drive to deliver work that doesn’t just look good—it works.

To apply, please submit your resume and a portfolio link or cover letter to Jessica Thompson.