Media Planner

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Media Planner developing and optimizing cross-channel campaigns at Rain, a national DTC marketing and creative agency. Translating audience, performance, and marketplace data into client recommendations.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop media plans
  • Ensure clients’ marketing campaigns reach the right target audience effectively to drive sales and brand awareness
  • Create media plans and optimization reporting
  • Support audience-first, cross-channel media recommendations by synthesizing research, campaign performance, competitive activity, marketplace trends and client business goals
  • Recommend campaign optimization across media channels, placements, products and creative
  • Evaluate how linear, streaming, digital video, social, audio, search, retail media, out-of-home and emerging platforms work together
  • Produce campaign analysis demonstrating the effectiveness of planning, testing and media optimization
  • Support test-and-learn initiatives by defining test inputs, tracking results, capturing learnings and recommending opportunities to optimize or scale successful approaches
  • Evaluate response data and media attribution modeling outputs to inform future recommendations
  • Translate performance data, attribution outputs and marketplace context into concise client insights
  • Monitor data, media performance and changing behaviors to inform and adjust media strategy
  • Apply research and data insights to media strategy and performance storytelling
  • Evaluate budgets, KPIs, media schedules and timelines and ensure budgets are maintained
  • Maintain operational accuracy across budget pacing, plan inputs, media schedules, specs, timelines, trafficking details, billing support and communication with activation teams
  • Use media research, planning, measurement and reporting tools, including Nielsen, MRI, proprietary measurement products and emerging automation, AI and data platforms
  • Collaborate with Media Planning, Client Services, Investment, Analytics, Strategy, Creative and Project Management teams
  • Participate in internal and external status meetings
  • Contribute to client-ready deliverables and clear narratives supporting media strategy, performance updates and planning decisions
  • Maintain understanding of the evolving media marketplace and emerging tools
  • Stay current on audience behavior, competitive activity, publisher and platform innovation, measurement shifts and new planning approaches

Requirements:

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business or a similar field, or equivalent relevant experience
  • Two to four years of experience
  • Working knowledge of analytics tools (MRI, Nielsen, etc.)
  • Broad knowledge of media channels
  • Understanding of how media channels work together across traditional, digital, streaming and emerging platforms to support full-funnel client objectives
  • An analytical mind with an aptitude for statistics and math
  • Ability to interpret data, identify meaningful performance drivers and translate findings into actionable recommendations
  • Strong decision-making skills
  • High attention to detail
  • Strong communication skills
  • Curiosity about the evolving media marketplace and comfort learning new research, planning, reporting, automation and AI-enabled tools
  • Appreciation of Rain’s Core Values
  • Local market experience preferred
  • Prior healthcare industry experience is a plus
  • Periodically accommodating meetings in different time zones is expected
  • Preference may be given to candidates in Eastern time zone

Benefits:

  • Quarterly profit-sharing program
  • 401(K) plan with employer match (and immediate eligibility)
  • 4-6 weeks PTO
  • 12 paid holidays
  • 12-18 weeks paid family and medical leave
  • Monthly Work-From-Home allowance
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • Flexible First environment with remote and virtual/in-person connection options
  • Investment in employees, technology, and tools
  • Rich benefits package
  • Total compensation package includes benefits, perks, and a profit-sharing bonus