Media Specialist

About this role

The Media Specialist’s primary role is to work alongside one of Arm Candy’s key clients and agency partners. This person has the ability to multitask, gives attention to detail, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. 

You will be joining an Integrated Marketing team and will have lots of opportunities to work across teams and collaborate across many disciplines.This Media Specialist will be responsible for assisting our Media Manager(s) and Media Investment Manager(s) in all of their daily responsibilities.

Once ready, our Media Specialists will begin running their own campaigns in Google Ads, Facebook, DCM, and other platforms getting hands-on experience that they’ll be able to expand upon. They’ll be given all of Arm Candy’s resources and training materials to learn, grow and take on more and more responsibilities.

This role accelerates years of media expertise into a crash course, with constructive and knowledgeable managers, there to guide you every step of the way. If you’re looking to propel your career in advertising, have a scientific, yet creative mind, eager to contribute creative, yet systematic solutions, and want to be a part of a thriving company; then this role is exactly what you’ve been looking for!

These are check boxes, but the role is much, much more.

Key Responsibilities

• Project management within Asana (project management system) for all tasks across multiple departments for all team members, for client and internal needs, large and small 
• Assist and support Media Management team leads on day-to-day client and agency needs
• QA and traffic of all creative assets for approved media plans
• Gathering and QA of status updates to be provided to internal team members and clients to keep all projects moving on time and at the highest quality
• Continual training and certification of defined media channels platforms in Social, Search and Programmatic to enhance media acumen
• Training on and enhanced fluency of CYRIS, our proprietary media planning technology, to understand how to activate media channels to deliver business impact
• QA of all reporting and analytics in custom dashboards to ensure impressions are being served and conversions are being tracked
• Training on and enhanced fluency of how media performance impacts our client’s business goals through data analysis in custom reporting dashboards
• Create ATBs (Authorization to Buy) contracts for client signature to secure approval of media spend by media channel
• Collaborate internally on client assignments with multiple team members and departments
• Support in development and QA of presentation content for media plans and recommendations
• Develop a rapport and working relationship with the day to day clients

Qualifications

• Must be located in DFW area or willing to relocate
• 1-2+ years of media experience
• 1+ year of project management experience
• Passion for project management and paid media
• An eagerness and desire to learn new skills and capabilities
• Strong attention to details and highly organized
• Self-starter with a proactive mindset
• Proficient in Microsoft Office – especially Excel (Excel is your best friend — or soon, will be) and Google Docs
• And most of all, a great attitude!

Position Status

Salaried Exempt