Vice President, Social and Digital Investment - Media.Monks

Character Qualifications

• You are seeking to make a large impact at a rapidly growing agency.
• You are a self-starter with very high standards for your work.
• You possess excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• You have the desire to grow as a leader and mentor to colleagues.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Social and Digital Investment practice for a group of accounts, overseeing a group of ~50 professionals across New York, LA, Toronto and remote. The Investment team owns all media buying, optimization and analytics, with the primary focus on driving best in class performance and return for F500 clients. 
• All media is bought in house and optimized using Decoded’s proprietary experimental approach. The VP is responsible for ensuring flawless execution of the Decoded media buying approach, while also pushing forward the practices of the team and agency.
• Set the bar for business strategy, performance analysis and investment strategy across the team and agency, acting as the go to resource for the most advanced media and business challenges our clients and teams face.
• Provide senior presence in all forms of client interaction from day-to-day managers to the CEO/CMO/VP level. Earn clients trust to manage 9 figure investments in Digital and Social 
• Analyze and streamline investment team operations, improving efficiency and workflows. 
• Manage and optimize resourcing across the team, overseeing candidate pipelines and the interview process. 
• Set the roadmap and oversee the professional development and skills development of all Social and Digital analysts.
• Contribute as a key leader across Decoded to agency-wide vision and initiatives.

About You

The essentials:

• 10+ years of experience buying media at scale in both Social and Programmatic, against both performance and brand based KPIs
• A proven track record of turning business problems into business solutions using data, automation, and statistics
• Proficiency with emerging and leading industry Social Platforms
• Proficiency with emerging and leading programmatic DSPs 
• Understanding of core statistical concepts, including Hypothesis Testing, confidence interval probability distributions, time series analysis
• Experience with advanced analytical toolsets (e.g. SQL, R,or Python) are a plus

At Media.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Media.Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!

Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Media.Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range $200,000—$230,000 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us. 

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