mediabrands

Associate Director, Communications Design

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At a Glance

Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Posted
2026-03-08T13:27:37-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

ExcelMicrosoft OfficePowerPoint

Domain Knowledge

  • Education
  • Marketing
  • Media

Requirements

– you care deeply about the impact you have on our clients, their customers, our community, the media landscape and our world at large.

IMAGINATION – your ability to imagine and bring to life the ideas, solutions, and the future of Initiative, makes us THE create media agency in the world.

Present client education program around Communications Design relevant marketplace trends.

Spearhead the best practice application of planning approach including key tools and techniques to surface media and marketing intelligence and insights to produce an impactful, culturally rich communications plan across owned, earned, shared, paid (OESP)

Write and manage outputs from RFP submissions from the Design discipline, in collaboration with Partnerships leads

Contribute to client Key Performance Indicator (KPI) delivery and to Specialty Business Units (SBU) growth and client profitability

Compensation & Benefits

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes medical and dental coverage, 401(k) plans, flex spending, life insurance, disability, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and paid family benefits to support you and your family.

The salary range for this position is posted below. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position, market considerations, budgetary considerations, tenure and standing with the Company (applicable to current employees), as well as the employee’s/applicant’s skill set, level of experience, and qualifications.

Responsibilities

As Associate Director, Communications Design you are the orchestrator of the Communications Plan, and all its detail.

Working with the Director, Communications Design, you oversee the translation of the idea approach into the detailed communications architecture and connected plan, the brand will take to market, tied to culture.

Your role is to curate every detail to create powerful experiences for your client’s brands in market, aligned to the strategy and idea leaning into your knowledge of how communications work in today’s dynamic landscape.

As the Associate Director, Communications Design, you will help to manage the delivery of next generation plans.

You will work with the Specialty Business Units, and creative partners to design the right tactics for the idea.

You will work with strategic audience experts on the right high value audiences to meet the brief.