Associate Director, Audience Intelligence

Zenith is a full-service media agency with capabilities and expertise across all channels and disciplines. Zenith is part of Publicis Media, the #1 media buying network in the Americas and #2 globally. As “The ROI Agency,” Zenith’s expertise lies in driving real, tangible business outcomes, not just media metrics, that will have a measurable effect on our clients’ business. Every investment we make has an ROI mindset—not just for our clients, but for our agency at large. We’re focused on driving the maximum value for our people, our capabilities and our media investments for some of the world’s leading brands.

The Centralized Intelligence team covers several strategic needs for the entire Verizon media business which includes Audience Insights, Competitive & Marketplace Intelligence & Media & Comms Strategy.

The Associate Director will report directly to the VP and be responsible for:

• Designing actionable strategies across the 'Power of One' delivery model to manage audience platforms, drive Groupe technology solutions, and deliver data-driven business outcomes
• Leading audience-focused learning agendas, use cases, and performance frameworks for Verizon
• Orchestrating ways of working and drive the creation and execution of case studies supporting broad audience initiatives and QA across inter-agency teams
• Collaborating with both internal (i.e., media, analytics, operations, & data science) departments and clients on a regular basis
• Presenting findings to external media managers and/or other senior staff

• Collaborate with Strategy and Investment teams to build/activate custom audiences 

• Be an advocate for the Audience Analytics team by evangelizing the platform which can unlock growth opportunities and customer experience enhancements

• Manage audience overlap, governance, and prioritization using behavioral and commercial audience insights to advise campaign leads

• Collaborate with Strategy on delivering audience insights addressing media strategy, profiling, messaging, and other insights to meet campaign goals

• Coordinate audience deployments and workflows across our channel partners and internal marketing, analytics, and planning teams for proper activation

• Must be able to effectively communicate and illustrate data-led stories, use cases, and findings in slide format for senior leaders (internal & external)
• Experience managing an omni-channel media strategy team; digital media strategy at a minimum
• Excellent communication, Microsoft Suite / Google Suite skills
• Extremely curious about audience strategy, measurement, & evaluation; always searching for value
• Experience driving a client’s business forward using a data-led audience / comms approach
• Time management; must be able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Must be self-sufficient when working independently
• Strong internal and external collaboration skills

Required Tools:

GWI, MRI, ComScore, Nielsen

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent. 

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive.  Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K,  as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: $125,000 - $130,000 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 02/15/2025.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Salary : $125,000 - $130,000