Contract Associate Director, Media Creative (Evergreen)

<p>Interested in joining Blue State's Media Team? Submit your application here to ensure you're first in line for future opportunities. Please note: this is an "evergreen" job post (i.e. not an active job post), but your expression of interest matters to us. While interviews aren't ongoing, we're excited to connect with talented individuals who share our commitment to Blue State's mission.</p> <p>If you came across this job via LinkedIn, please note that it is an evergreen role; Linked In does not differentiate, but we prefer to.</p> <h2><strong>What to know</strong></h2> <p><br>The Associate Director of Media Creative sits at the intersection of the paid media, accounts, and creative teams to ensure cross-team alignment. The person in this role will serve as a liaison between teams, developing best practices to ensure that our paid media campaigns are fully integrated across paid media strategy, creative development, and client relationship management. The person in the role will span client engagements, including the agency as well as our growing political practice at Blue State.The person in this role should have an expert understanding of paid media and creative development. The person in this role will help shape how Blue State client teams can deliver and execute thoughtful paid media campaigns to deliver results for clients. <br>The person in this role should be able to oversee a paid media program throughout its lifespan—from developing initial budgets and timelines in the proposal process, to aligning strategy & creative production and reporting to clients on optimizations & performance. </p> <p>This role is client-facing, requiring a diplomatic and solution-oriented demeanor. The Associate Director, Media Creative keeps a pulse on the needs and bandwidth of all teammates and balances those needs with client demands. They have a significant track record coordinating paid media campaigns and creative production processes of various sizes and budgets<br><br></p> <h2><strong>The company</strong></h2> <p>Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters. Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency in the US and London.</p> <h2><strong>A day in the life</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Drive cross-team alignment </strong>by interfacing with Blue State accounts, creative, and media teams to develop and refine creative strategy in lockstep with paid media plans and goals, facilitating creative production, delivery, and project management across teams.</li> <li><strong>Serve as a liaison to internal discipline teams </strong>to develop, document, and refine a high-functioning cross-team paid media practice at Blue State.</li> <li><strong>Lead client relationships </strong>in service of creative collaboration and development—ensuring alignment of goals, creative execution, and timelines, and escalating issues to senior team members as needed.</li> <li><strong>Communicate clearly and consistently </strong>across internal process documentation and dissemination, and bring strong presentation skills to share learnings across the agency.</li> <li><strong>Train and equip teammates </strong>by facilitating onboarding and ongoing training for accounts and creative leads on best practices and processes for managing paid media accounts.</li> <li><strong>Manage projects with rigor </strong&