Associate Director, Media Strategy

7+ years of industry experience focused on media strategy, planning and client service.

Eager to forge long-term client partnerships built on mutual trust and fueled by ongoing performance.

Proficient in media strategy with experience across digital direct, programmatic, social and search plus fluency in brand and offline channels.

Ability to craft compelling, data-driven narratives for client deliverables.

Experienced with syndicated planning and competitive insight tools (e.g., Comscore, GWI, Pathmatics, Nielsen).

Comfortable adopting AI-enabled tools and helping the team work smarter.

$122,000

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$140,000 USD

The Associate Director, Media Strategy leads key strategy and planning workstreams on one of Monks' most important client relationships: owning deliverables end to end and serving as a trusted day-to-day client contact.

Strong ability to build client and platform relationships

A track record of managing and growing account workstreams

Ability to tell data-driven stories and extract key insights for senior-level clients

Full-funnel understanding of the media landscape across Social, Search, Programmatic/Digital Investment, Holistic Video, OOH, and Direct Partnerships.

Experience managing and stewarding career growth for direct reports

Monks is a new kind of agency, built from the ground up by award-winning creatives, top data scientists and cutting-edge media people willing to defect from the old agency model to create smarter work. Challenging convention, we bridge the gap between meaningful storytelling, data-led optimization and commerce. A spirit of curiosity, relentless creativity and data-informed decision making define our culture and people.

The Media Strategy department is the strategic heart of Monks' media offering: a unified team bringing together deep expertise in media strategy, media planning, and account management. We build integrated, full-funnel media strategies that connect brand storytelling to measurable business outcomes, powered by AI-enabled workflows and analytical rigor.