Senior Specialist, Direct Partnerships

The role

You will contribute to strategic and executional efforts for IO-based media partnerships. You will manage vendor relationships and provide guidance on how media performance impacts client business objectives.

What you will do

• Engage and evaluate media vendors to broaden and improve the team partner roster
• Work closely with other team members to negotiate partnerships with vendors
• Communicate the value proposition of IO partnerships and relevant technology
• Ensure best practice in all executional activities
• Coordinate digital partnership efforts with other media channels
• Build analyses, stories, and slides for client media plans and reports
• Manage communications with clients as appropriate
• Translate client business objectives into effective paid media campaigns

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a digital agency environment working with media vendors, internal teams, and external collaborators
• Knowledge of direct IO partnerships roles in the media ecosystem
• Deep understanding of strategic and executional aspects of managing direct partnerships
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Strong track record of planning and executing branding, consideration, and direct response campaigns
• Strong organizational skills
• Outstanding critical thinking skills
• Detail-oriented mindset
• Hands-on experience with Prisma is required

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience in typical media platforms like DoubleVerify and CM360
• Experience working with CPG or Business Tech clients
• Experience working in the Retail media spaces
• Experience managing others

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off
• 401k with company matching and no vesting period
• Annual bonuses
• Generous medical plan
• Paid parental leave

About the company

Known is a data science firm and creative agency where PhD data scientists and award-winning creatives collaborate. The company is distributed across the U.S.